Engineer I, Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Vertiv
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Job summary
Vertiv in Lorain, OH, is seeking an Electrical Engineer to develop electrical content for DC power in customer proposals. You will produce specifications, single-line diagrams, and system descriptions, and review designs for accuracy.
You will collaborate with global teams and maintain a reusable content library for bids. The role requires 2+ years in power systems, strong documentation skills, and proficiency with drawing tools such as Siemens Xpedition, AutoCAD Electrical or Visio.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
- 2+ years of experience in power systems, power distribution, or power electronics design.
- Experience with single-line diagrams, power architecture layouts, and protection coordination for DC distribution.
- Experience with load calculations, system sizing, and protection device sizing.
- Ability to produce clear, customer-ready specification documents.
- Accuracy in translating customer requirements to design specifications.
- Proficiency with Siemens Xpedition (preferred), AutoCAD Electrical, Visio, or equivalent drawing tools.
Responsibilities
- Draft electrical specification documents for customer packages, including single-line diagrams and power layouts.
- Perform load calculations and system sizing for DC power distribution configurations.
- Create customer-facing electrical content—system descriptions and protection philosophy.
- Maintain proposal templates and standard electrical content library for reuse.
- Review project designs for accuracy to customer expectations.
- Verify requirements traceability for each customer electrical requirement.
- Identify discrepancies between customer requirements and proposed design and escalate.
- Collaborate with team to ensure electrical and mechanical content is consistent.
- Support global design teams with electrical content clarifications during detailed design.
- Support compliance with electrical content for certification packages as needed.
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The Electrical Engineer, DC Power develops the electrical content within technical customer proposals for Vertiv's Modular Power Converters product line. This role works under the direction of the Project Proposals & Global Engineering Lead, producing technical specification documents, single-line diagrams, and customer-facing electrical content. A key responsibility is reviewing project designs developed by Global design teams to verify accuracy against customer expectations and requirements.
- Draft electrical specification documents for customer packages, including single-line diagrams, power architecture layouts, and protection coordination schemes
- Perform load calculations and system sizing for DC power distribution configurations
- Create customer-facing electrical content - system descriptions, functional overviews, protection philosophy, and redundancy explanations
- Maintain proposal templates and standard electrical content library for reuse across bids
- Review project designs (electrical) under Proposals Lead for accuracy to customer expectations
- Verify requirements traceability - ensure every customer electrical requirement has a corresponding specification response
- Identify discrepancies between customer requirements and proposed design; escalateto Proposals Lead
- Collaborate with team members to ensure electrical and mechanical package content is consistent
- Support Global design teams with electrical specification clarifications during detailed design phase
- Support compliance team with electrical content for certification packages as needed
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
- 2+ years of experience in power systems, power distribution, or power electronics design
- Experience with single-line diagrams, power architecture layouts, and protection coordination for DC distribution
- Experience with load calculations, system sizing, and protection device sizing
- Ability to produce clear, customer-ready specification documents
- Accuracy in translating customer requirements to design specifications
- Proficiency with Siemens Xpedition (preferred), AutoCAD Electrical, Visio, or equivalent drawing tools
- Experience in telecom or data center power infrastructure
- Familiarity with DC distribution architectures (48VDC, 54VDC, 800VDC)
- Experience with UL/NEC/IEC standards as applied to power distribution
- Previous proposal, bid, or design engineering role
- Experience with monitoring/control systems (SNMP, Modbus, CAN bus)
- Familiarity with thermal management in power systems
- 5-10%, including internationally
The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.
Safety, Integrity, Respect, Teamwork, Diversity & Inclusion.
- Customer Focus
- Operational Excellence
- High-Performance Culture
- Innovation
- Financial Strength
- 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
Vertiv is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We promote equal opportunities for all with respect to hiring, terms of employment, mobility, training, compensation, and occupational health, without discrimination as to age, race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy status (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression (including transgender status or sexual stereotypes), genetic information, citizenship status, national origin, protected veteran status, political affiliation, or disability. If you have a disability and are having difficulty accessing or using this website to apply for a position, you can request help by sending an email to help.join@vertiv.com
No calls or agencies please. Vertiv will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.
The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principles & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.
Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Inclusion.
- High-Performance Culture
- Customer Focus
- Operational Excellence
- Innovation
- Financial Strength
- 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
- Promote transparent & open communication
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.
No calls or agencies please. Vertiv will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.
Vertiv is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We promote equal opportunities for all with respect to hiring, terms of employment, mobility, training, compensation, and occupational health, without discrimination as to age, race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy status (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression (including transgender status or sexual stereotypes), genetic information, citizenship status, national origin, protected veteran status, political affiliation, or disability. If you have a disability and are having difficulty accessing or using this website to apply for a position, you can request help by sending an email to help.join@vertiv.com
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