Electrical Engineer

Harmar; Sarasota (FL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan

Dental & Vision

Life Insurance

401(k) matching

Paid vacation & sick leave

Holidays & floating holiday

Fitness reimbursement

Bonus potential

Job summary

Harmar Mobility designs mobility device lifts to help people stay independent. The electronics team develops and tests hardware for medical devices, ensuring reliability, safety, and cost efficiency through prototypes, documentation and production release.

Responsibilities include performance evaluation, cost analysis, and collaboration with customers and suppliers to deliver robust solutions while maintaining regulatory compliance and quality standards.

Qualifications

• History of independent and team work under time and resource constraints.
• Strong planning/organizational skills with ability to manage projects and multi-task.
• Evidence of strong technical problem solving and solving workflow issues.
• Effective interpersonal communications to express ideas precisely and persuasively.
• Ability to specify, evaluate and select electrical/electronic components.
• Experience working with design teams, customers, suppliers outside the company.
• Familiar with firmware/hardware interactions and compliance issues.

Responsibilities

• Circuit board and circuit board programming responsibilities.
• Develop and maintain electronics for medical devices including documentation and testing.
• Evaluate and optimize product concepts for function, manufacturability and packaging.
• Generate prototypes, test, verify, and release to production.
• Develop cost analyses for new concepts from design through production launch.
• Lead special projects evaluating new processes and technologies.
• Provide technical support for electronic product quality issues.
• Improve electronics development process for quality and time-to-market.
• Ensure electrical safety compliance (FDA, CE, UL, NEC, FCC).
• Select key components and standardize where possible.
• Maintain engineering docs (BOMs, procedures) in DCD.
• Design areas include boards, embedded systems, motors, and analog/digital circuits.
• Decide which electronics activities are internal vs subcontracted.
• Manage internal testing resources and validate test results.
• Design experiments to evaluate electrical systems and components.

Skills

Project management

Organizational skills

Problem solving

Interpersonal skills

Electrical components

Team collaboration

Firmware/hardware interaction

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

Job description

Description

Who is Harmar? We manufacture wheelchair lifts for automobiles, stair lifts for the home and residential and commercial vertical platform lifts. We sell to dealers and to the government. Ultimately our products give people access to their homes and allow them to become more mobile. We say, “We Lift Lives”.

Want a fulfilling job while working for a Great Place to Work certified company? Looking for opportunities to grow in your position and enhance your craft? Do you enjoy working with a team, where your opinions and ideas are strongly valued? Lift your life by joining Harmar Mobility, where our purpose is to lift lives within our team, among our network of dealers, and in our communities across the nation. We manufacture mobility device lifts for vehicles and accessibility products to help those with mobility difficulties enjoy their independence and continue to make meaningful memories, whether they’re at home or on the road.

• Circuit board and circuit board programming
• Responsible for developing and maintaining electronics for medical devices. Specific responsibilities include definition, documentation, prototyping, testing and debugging, qualification, and release to production of reliable and cost effective electronic solutions
• Evaluate and optimize product concepts for function (e.g., fit, function, interference, etc.), manufacturability, packaging and material handling
• Generate product prototypes, perform product testing and ensure that products function properly, meet specifications, and timing objectives
• Develop and evaluate cost analysis for new and modified product concepts from design through production launch to maximize product value. Assist in the process of bringing the product to mass production
• Work on special projects as assigned such as evaluating competitive product, new processes and technologies
• Provides Technical support in solving electronic product quality problems with existing products
• Improve the electronics development process, in order to guarantee the quality, improve the time-to-market and increase the efficiency
• Responsible to meet electrical safety compliance requirements (FDA, CE, UL, NEC, FCC and others) and coordinate product compliance testing
• Work on selection and standardization of key components
• Responsible for managing the resources that maintain engineering documentation such as bills of material, procedures and other types of engineering documentation in DCD
• Major design areas include supplies, batteries, printed circuit boards, embedded systems, AC and DC motors, ESD and EMI suppression, and other analog and digital circuit design
• Help to choose which electronics activities should be built-up internally and which can be subcontracted, according to criteria like cost, quality, lead time and knowledge buildup
• Manage internal testing resources and ensure the quality of testing and reporting
• Evaluates electrical systems, product, components, and applications by designing and conducting research programs; applying knowledge of electricity and materials
• Confirms system’s and components’ capabilities by designing testing methods; testing properties
• Maintains product database by writing computer programs; entering data

Requirements

• History of working independently and as a member of a team under time and resource constraints is required
• Experience indicating strong planning/organizational skills with a demonstrated ability to manage projects, multi-task and set priorities
• Evidence of strong technical problem solving skills and the ability to develop solutions for a smooth workflow in a fast paced product development environment
• Effective interpersonal skills, especially communications, exhibiting ability to express ideas precisely, persuasively and effectively
• Ability to specify, evaluate and select appropriate electrical/electronic components
• Have experience working in a design team interfacing with customers, suppliers, and technical resources outside the company
• Be familiar with firmware/hardware interactions and compliance issues

Work Experience/Education

• 4-5 years experience working in an electrical engineering role
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering required

Great Benefits

• Medical, FSA, HSA, Dental, Vision, Maternity/Paternity Leave, STD, LTD after 60 days of full-time employment
• Harmar offers $50,000 Life Insurance first day of employment
• 401(k) matching after 6 months of full-time employment
• Paid Vacation time (80 hours) and Sick/Personal time (30 hours) after 90 days of full-time employment
• Eight Paid Holidays and one Floating Holiday
• Fitness and PPE Reimbursement
• Annual Merit Increases and Bonus Potential

Harmar Core Values, these are important to us!

• Team Players –We lean on each other, are dependable and trustworthy.
• Get stuff Done – We finish the job and possess a strong work ethic.
• Can-Do Attitude – A spirit of positivity and flexibility. We go the extra mile.
• Genuinely Cares –We are accountable and work to be customer champions.
• Does the Right Thing – Every Time, All the time. No exception, No compromise.
• Embraces Inclusion – We love diversity. Come as you are. We like it that way.

Harmar is a certified Great Place to Work five years in a row! We are recognized for our safe, inclusive and welcoming environment.

Harmar Mobility is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against otherwise qualified applicants on the basis of race, color, creed, ancestry, religion, orientation, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, or veteran status.