WEG Electric Corp. (USA) ยท 1 month ago
Control Panel Design Engineer
Duluth, GA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
6+ years expWEG Electric Corp. is the largest industrial electric motor manufacturer in the Americas, and they are seeking a Control Panel Design Engineer to create designs and documentation for industrial motor control panels. This role involves developing schematics, providing support to manufacturing, and ensuring compliance with standards while collaborating with various teams.
Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing
No H1B
Responsibilities
Develops schematics, bill of materials and assembly drawings using AutoCAD
Provide guidance and support to manufacturing and other areas, regarding product requirements (drive collaboration)
Participates in and sometimes provides training for other engineering team members
Study/analyze projects technical documents and specifications
Preventing electrical hazards is a top priority for electrical designers, thus, they need a thorough understanding of relevant standards
Designers have to keep colleagues, managers, and clients in the loop as to progress and deviations from schedule or budget so as not to disturb the workflow of the whole
Designers estimate the time, cost, labor, and materials that are needed to produce a real version of their ideas. They reformulate plans along the way based on unexpected circumstances or client changes
Adhere to best practices for documentation and version control
Define design approach for new products and platforms and generate design specifications
Ability to take neat and accurate field notes, sketches and single lines for use in preparing construction documents
Ability to make design decisions based on specific job requirements and prepare a complete design package
Release panels and prints to operations. Release critical materials for purchasing
Ensure product design meets requirements, quality expectations and timelines (think customer)
Markup schematics, generate revisions or additions to existing drawing sets
Process markups affecting multiple drawings
Ensure consistency across drawing sets (encourage feedback)
Check for practicality of mark-ups and for obstructions & using multi layers (mimic panels)
Create, revise and maintain routings and work centers in the system
Update metrics to improve routings and production planning accuracy
Maintain revision control
SAP tasks execution
Drives cost reduction
Qualification
Required
6+ years of relevant work experience
Basic familiarity with 3-phase and single-phase power design required
VFD and Soft Starter's principles required
AutoCAD required
Excel intermediate (using charts, graphs, fonts, borders, shading, formulas, tables, pivot chart, macros etc.) required
Industrial standards and how they are applied. Standards include but are not limited to: UL 508A, NEC, NEMA
Ability to read schematics for troubleshooting - identify functional defects
Basic electronics and circuit analysis (analyze basic DC and AC - basic electrical laws, series and parallel circuits, network analysis concepts, grounding techniques, magnetism, inductance/capacitance, resistance, diodes, potentiometers, logic operations etc.)
Preferred
Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite
AutoCAD Electrical / EPLAN preferred
UL508A Standard - MTR Certified preferred
Bachelors in Engineering preferred
Benefits
Competitive compensation
Full benefits package
Company
WEG Electric Corp. (USA)
Founded in 1961, WEG has grown into a global solutions provider of industrial electrical technologies, being one of the largest manufacturers of electric motors in the world.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase