Application Engineer - Busway

Vertiv Group Corporation; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertiv Group Corporation is seeking a Presales Application Engineer – Busway to translate customer electrical requirements into manufacturable busway solutions for data center, commercial, and industrial systems. You will support sales, layout design, and product engineering to ensure compliant, competitive offerings.

Role emphasizes expertise in feeder and plug‑in busway, tap‑off boxes, and related power distribution components, aligning with NEC, UL, and IEEE standards while collaborating with

Qualifications

• Experience selecting and sizing busway systems for electrical distribution.
• Ability to translate customer requirements into manufacturable designs.
• Familiarity with NEC, UL, NEMA, IEEE standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise in busway selection, sizing, and configuration.
• Review drawings and project requirements to develop busway solutions.
• Develop layouts considering ampacity, voltage, and routing constraints.
• Ensure compliance with NEC/UL/NEMA/IEEE and other codes.
• Support sales with technical proposals and scope clarification.
• Prepare technical documentation and submittals.
• Identify value engineering opportunities to reduce cost and lead times.

Skills

Busway configuration

Electrical design

Customer collaboration

Proposal support

Product knowledge

Manufacturing feasibility

Tools

AutoCAD

One-line diagrams

Electrical layouts

IEC standards

Job description

POSITION SUMMARY

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Presales Application Engineer – Busway to support our power distribution portfolio. This role focuses on low-voltage busway and busbar distribution systems, including feeder and plug‑in busway, tap‑off boxes, and related power distribution solutions for data center, commercial, and industrial applications. The successful candidate will play a key role in the application, technical evaluation, system layout, design support, and optimization of busway solutions, ensuring alignment with customer specifications, project requirements, manufacturing capabilities, and applicable industry standards.

The primary responsibility of this role is to translate customer electrical and physical requirements into technical compliant, manufacturable, and competitive busway solutions. The individual will work closely with Sales, Product Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, and customers throughout the pre‑sales process.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide technical expertise in the selection, sizing, configuration, and application of busway systems, including feeder busway, plug‑in busway, tap‑off boxes, fittings, and accessories.
• Review customer specifications, one‑line diagrams, equipment layouts, and project requirements to develop appropriate busway solutions.
• Develop busway layouts and configurations considering ampacity, voltage, short‑circuit ratings, voltage drop, routing, tap‑off locations, installation requirements, and system scalability.
• Ensure solutions comply with applicable NEC, UL 857, NEMA, IEEE, and other relevant standards and codes.
• Translate customer concepts and project requirements into practical and manufacturable designs aligned with available product platforms.
• Partner with Sales to develop technical proposals, clarify scope, identify deviations and exclusions, and support customer technical discussions.
• Collaborate with Product Engineering and Manufacturing to validate product capability, manufacturability, lead times, and technical risks.
• Support technical and commercial evaluation of project requirements, including product configuration, materials, accessories, and installation considerations.
• Prepare and review technical documentation, including busway layouts, one‑line diagrams, equipment schedules, specifications, and submittal information.
• Provide technical support during customer meetings, design reviews, presentations, and site visits as required.
• Identify value‑engineering opportunities to improve cost, installation efficiency, lead time, and overall system performance.
• Provide feedback to support continuous improvement of busway products, configuration tools, estimating tools, and application standards.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Provide technical expertise in the selection, sizing, configuration, and application of busway systems, including feeder busway, plug‑in busway, tap‑off boxes, fittings, and accessories.
• Review customer specifications, one‑line diagrams, equipment layouts, and project requirements to develop appropriate busway solutions.
• Develop busway layouts and configurations considering ampacity, voltage, short‑circuit ratings, voltage drop, routing, tap‑off locations, installation requirements, and system scalability.
• Ensure solutions comply with applicable NEC, UL 857, NEMA, IEEE, and other relevant standards and codes.
• Translate customer concepts and project requirements into practical and manufacturable designs aligned with available product platforms.
• Partner with Sales to develop technical proposals, clarify scope, identify deviations and exclusions, and support customer technical discussions.
• Collaborate with Product Engineering and Manufacturing to validate product capability, manufacturability, lead times, and technical risks.
• Support technical and commercial evaluation of project requirements, including product configuration, materials, accessories, and installation considerations.
• Prepare and review technical documentation, including busway layouts, one‑line diagrams, equipment schedules, specifications, and submittal information.
• Provide technical support during customer meetings, design reviews, presentations, and site visits as required.
• Identify value‑engineering opportunities to improve cost, installation efficiency, lead time, and overall system performance.
• Provide feedback to support continuous improvement of busway products, configuration tools, estimating tools, and application standards.

PHYSICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS

• Ability to work and multi‑task in a fast‑paced environment.

TIME TRAVEL REQUIRED

• 10%

The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.

OUR CORE PRINCIPLES: Safety. Integrity.Respect. Teamwork. Inclusion.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

• Customer Focus
• Operational Excellence
• High‑Performance Culture
• Innovation
• Financial Strength

OUR BEHAVIORS

• Own It
• Act With Urgency
• Foster a Customer‑First Mindset
• Think Big and Execute
• Lead by Example
• Drive Continuous Improvement
• Learn and Seek Out Development

About Vertiv

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extend from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs around 34,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit Vertiv.com to learn more.

Work Authorization

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Equal Opportunity Employer

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