Senior Electrical Engineer

Team: 8339

Location: Novi, MI

Workplace Type: onsite

What you will get to do:

• Work closely with Project Managers, Controls Engineers, the manufacturing team, and customers to develop systems and complete projects.
• Provide electrical design along with drawing creation while under minimal technical supervision.
• Prepare drawing packages for manufacture and assembly, ensuring they are complete and accurate, meeting all customer drawing requirements as well as proper standards.
• Collaborate with shop members prior to and during the build.
• Deliberate with Controls engineers to design for integration and select pneumatic components.
• Develop Electrical designs to solve production plant issues.
• Develop predictive maintenance indicators to increase reliability and reduce downtime.
• Support legacy Electrical designs.
• Share design methodologies, productivity tools, standards, processes, and legacy information for increased knowledge and experience within the company.
• Develop designs from direction supplied by Novi program management and external engineers.

What will make you successful:

Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.
3 years of experience in a design role at an automation/machine build shop.
Knowledge and experience with electrical circuits and PLC programing.
Motivated to initiate and implement tasks, strategies, and techniques in a goal-oriented manner to increase productivity and profitability.
Technically creative with an understanding of Electrical functions to provide solutions in a robust and economical manner.
Capable of evaluating quotations, specifications, and documentation to discern functional requirements, identify missing information, and define tasks for Electrical designs.
Organized and flexible in work functions allowing for resolute, multitasking, and task interrupted duties.
Analytical and decisive to define, evaluate and solve problems in an organized process.
Effective communication skills, both written and verbal with competency in computer and Microsoft Office products.
Ability to collaborate in team environments while maintaining individual duties effectively.
Communication across cross functional groups.
Communication with suppliers to aid in design decisions.
Committed to integrity, ethical, and economical practices.
Ability to travel 20% to customer sites to capture design info or assist installation.