Electrical Engineer – Contract
Location: Lafayette, IN
Duration: Contract
Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, 3+ years of experience.
Responsibilities:
- Design wire harness and cable routings, support detailing, and check prints.
- Design, development, and testing of the manufacture of electrical equipment, including machinery controls, wiring, and lighting.
- Lead design reviews.
- Discuss estimates for time and cost to complete projects with clients.
- Collaboration with suppliers.
- Support cost rollups, FMEA, TFCs, and supplier collaboration.
- Project-level coordination (liaison) and technical expertise.
- Manage interactions with the Electrical Integration team (offshore/onsite) and cross-functional engineering and product engineering teams.
- Manage task list, drive execution, prioritize, and reshuffle tasks to ensure optimized output for customers with efficient resource management.
- Provide expertise on site, collaborate on designs, decisions, and reviews with the Electrical Integration team.
- Check, verify, and approve all work to ensure quality is consistent with commitments and customer expectations.
- Provide on-site hands‑on assistance when needed, including trips to machines for troubleshooting, testing, fit‑up, and build support.
- Participate in efforts to improve overall Electrical Integration team knowledge by sharing experiences and knowledge.
Desirable Qualifications:
- Extensive experience in Creo, Teamcenter, and Electrical lines (harness/cabling) routing tools.
- Experience in reading electrical schematics.
- Strong communication, initiative, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
- Attention to detail & quality.
- Team collaboration.
- High degree of mechanical aptitude along with a hands‑on approach.
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Employment type: Contract
Job function: Information Technology
Industries: Automation Machinery Manufacturing