Lead Hydraulic & Electrical Systems Designer

Sunsrce; Town of Hartland (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Price Engineering, a SunSource company, seeks an Engineering Leader in Wisconsin to guide hydraulic and electric system designs and mentor the engineering team. You will drive cross-functional collaboration with sales, manufacturing, and purchasing to establish labor costs and standard parts, while leading continuous improvements in product designs.

You will oversee project design budgets, allocate resources, and ensure timely delivery, blending technical depth with leadership and coaching

Qualifications

• 2-year engineering degree minimum.
• 3-5 years as Application Engineer and Engineering Manager (fluid power, motion control automation, and/or power transmission).

Responsibilities

• Work with hydraulic system designers on developing and approving circuit and system design for projects.
• Work with the hydraulic systems team on integration of hydraulic and electric systems.
• Develop and mentor engineering team members.
• Support Wig #1 call activity to connect engineering team members to key customers/opportunities.
• Support Wig #2 effort to help build the engineering team.
• Help lead key performance improvement activities in the engineering team.
• Work with the hydraulic system designers on their weekly priorities.
• Manage entire team allocation and reporting of time for project design and support.
• Work with entire team on hydraulic system cost estimating and final statement of work processes.
• Work with sales team to adequately identify system requirements and statement of work for new Industrial system projects.
• Work closely with Manufacturing to develop standard labor costs for assembly activities.
• Work closely with purchasing to identify standard suppliers, components, and costs.
• Lead efforts for continuous improvements to the designs of standard power system products.

Skills

Leadership

Engineering management

Team mentoring

Customer focus

Education

2-year engineering degree

Leadership training

Tools

Hydraw

MDtools

PDM

Job description

Price Engineering, a SunSource company, seeks an Engineering Leader in Wisconsin to guide hydraulic and electric system designs and mentor the engineering team. You will drive cross-functional collaboration with sales, manufacturing, and purchasing to establish labor costs and standard parts, while leading continuous improvements in product designs.

You will oversee project design budgets, allocate resources, and ensure timely delivery, blending technical depth with leadership and coaching