Electrical Engineer

Virginia Panel Company; Waynesboro (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Virginia Panel Company seeks a qualified Electrical Engineer to drive conceptual and mechanical design, prototype supervision, and testing of new electro-mechanical products. The role demands defining customer requirements, supporting marketing with business opportunities, and leading cross-functional teams through PDP stages.

The candidate should have a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering with CAD/SolidWorks experience, familiarity with LabVIEW, ANSYS HFSS, and Altium PCB Design, and knowledge

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering with design and testing of small, high reliability electromechanical devices.
• 5 years of CAD experience – SolidWorks preferred. Familiarity with internet software, e-mail, word processing and spreadsheets. Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite a plus.
• Familiarity with Digital Serial Analyzers (DSA), Vector Network Analyzers (VNA) and other electrical test equipment and various manufacturing processes preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide conceptual and mechanical design, prototyping supervision and testing of new products.
• Define applications and customer design requirements in concept phase.
• Provide technical support to marketing in the preparation of New Product Business Opportunity Statements.
• Design highly reliable electro-mechanical products using CAD/3D modeling.
• Participate in design reviews throughout the PDP.

Skills

CAD experience

SolidWorks

Electrical engineering understanding

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

LabVIEW

ANSYS HFSS

Altium PCB Design

Job description

SUMMARY

Provide conceptual design, mechanical design, prototyping supervision and testing of new products.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Product Development
• Seek & define Applications/Customer design requirements in concept phase
• Provide technical support to marketing in the preparation of New Product Business Opportunity Statements
• Design highly reliable electro-mechanical products using computer aided design 3d Modeling computer system.
• Participate in design reviews throughout the Product Development Process (PDP)
• As required, serve as the leader of cross functional Product Development Teams (PDT) during the development of new Products
• Work to performance and cost/volume targets.
• Conduct tolerance analysis and finite element material properties analysis
• Generate detailed drawings to VPC standards using GTD as appropriate.
• Design experiments / test plans to assure compliance to reliability requirements.
• Develop test plans and perform testing or over-see technicians in testing.
• Document or support the documentation of test results
• Use Design for Manufacturability Methods to work with suppliers, VPC manufacturing and other teams to achieve desired results.
• Sustain Engineering Efforts
• Use applications/product knowledge to:
• Serve as consultant for new product requests to filter out rejects, determine the most feasible way to provide a quality quote in the least amount of time.
• Use PDP methods mentioned above to design complex product extensions of existing products.
• Serve as consultant to provide high level applications engineering support to customers.
• Use engineering analysis to resolve customer application issues
• Use engineering analysis to resolve customer quality issues on legacy product.
• Provide support with Eng. Change Notice (ECN) process
• Lead cost reduction efforts for legacy products.
• Performs other related duties as assigned by management.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree (BA) from four-year college or university in Electrical Engineering and training in the design and testing of small, high reliability electromechanical devices.
• 5 years of CAD experience – Solidworks preferred. Familiarity with internet software, e-mail, word processing and spreadsheets. Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, LabVIEW, ANSYS HFSS and Altium PCB Design software a plus.
• Familiarity with Digital Serial Analyzers (DSA), Vector Network Analyzers (VNA) and other electrical test equipment and various manufacturing processes preferred.