Electrical & Manufacturing Engineer

Adventurer Manufacturing; Yakima (WA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Adventurer Manufacturing seeks a company-wide technical authority for electrical systems to own manufacturability, repeatability, tooling, and quality of harness assembly.

You will own electrical architecture, schematics, harness designs, specifications, and design standards while partnering with Product Engineers and suppliers to translate requirements into safe, robust systems. Lead next-gen development and standardize interfaces across brands to improve reliability and supply resilience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, mechatronics, electromechanical engineering, or closely related discipline.
• Typically 5–8+ years of electrical systems engineering experience in vehicles, RVs, marine, industrial equipment, energy systems, or other complex manufactured products.
• Strong capability in wiring schematics, harness design, DC power systems, batteries, charging, protection, grounding, and electrical troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain electrical architecture, schematics, harness designs, specifications, and design standards.
• Partner with brand Product Engineers & Suppliers to translate product requirements into safe, robust electrical systems.
• Lead next-generation electrical system development where appropriate.
• Engineer harness manufacturing methods, fixtures, test systems, assembly processes, and quality controls.
• Standardize components and interfaces across brands where doing so improves reliability, cost, service, or supply resilience.
• Support electrical prototypes, validation, troubleshooting, field failures, supplier issues, and corrective actions.
• Develop electrical diagnostic standards and production/end-of-line test methods.
• Lead training for all electrical installation techs.

Skills

Electrical systems engineering

Wiring schematics

Harness design

DC power systems

Batteries & charging

CAN/communications

Electrical troubleshooting

Safety & compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical/electromechanical engineering

Tools

Victron power systems

Inverters/chargers

Job description

Serve as the company-wide technical authority for electrical systems while also owning the manufacturability, repeatability, tooling, and quality of electrical/harness assembly processes.

What You Own

• Company electrical architecture and engineering standards across 12V, 48V, and AC systems.
• Wiring schematics, harness architecture, harness design standards, and electrical BOM/specification discipline.
• Battery/energy storage, solar, inverter/charger, DC/DC, HVAC electrical integration, and communications/CAN where applicable.
• Electrical safety, compliance support, validation requirements, and component standardization.
• Manufacturing engineering for the harness department, including fixtures, tooling, test equipment, error-proofing, and end-of-line testing.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain electrical architecture, schematics, harness designs, specifications, and design standards.
• Partner with brand Product Engineers & Suppliers partners to translate product requirements into safe, robust electrical systems.
• Lead next-generation electrical system development where appropriate.
• Engineer harness manufacturing methods, fixtures, test systems, assembly processes, and quality controls.
• Standardize components and interfaces across brands where doing so improves reliability, cost, service, or supply resilience.
• Support electrical prototypes, validation, troubleshooting, field failures, supplier issues, and corrective actions.
• Develop electrical diagnostic standards and production/end-of-line test methods.
• Lead training for all electrical installation techs.

Cross-Functional Responsibilities

• Maintain a strong technical working relationship with all Sr. Product Engineers; organizational reporting to Operations does not change the role's authority over shared electrical architecture, standards, schematics, harness engineering, and electrical validation requirements.
• All Sr. Product Engineers on product electrical requirements and integration.
• Manufacturing Engineering and the harness department on process capability, tooling, fixtures, and test.
• Quality on electrical validation, failure analysis, compliance evidence, and corrective actions.
• Supply Chain on electrical suppliers, components, alternates, and technical approvals.
• Service on diagnostics, field failures, and serviceability improvements.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, mechatronics, electromechanical engineering, or closely related discipline; equivalent directly relevant experience considered.
• Typically, 5-8+ years of electrical systems engineering experience in vehicles, RVs, marine, industrial equipment, energy systems, or other complex manufactured products.
• Strong capability in wiring schematics, harness design, DC power systems, batteries, charging, protection, grounding, and electrical troubleshooting.
• Experience with Victron custom power systems, lithium battery systems, inverters/chargers, solar, CAN/communications, and AC integration highly desirable.
• Practical manufacturing engineering experience with harness assembly, fixtures, test equipment, error-proofing, and production quality.

What Success Looks Like

• Electrical architecture becomes standardized, documented, and scalable across brands.
• Electrical and harness-related production defects and field failures decline.
• Advanced power systems are developed with disciplined safety and validation.
• Harness manufacturing is repeatable, testable, efficient, and well-tooled.
• Brand teams receive strong electrical expertise without duplicating electrical roles.

Operating principle: Own the electrical ecosystem from schematic to harness station to field performance.