UL 508A Control Panel Designer - Enclosures & Layout

Marvin Engineering Company; Inglewood (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Marvin Group is seeking a UL 508A Control Panel Designer in Southern California near LAX to develop industrial control-panel enclosures, layouts, and manufacturing documentation. You will own hardware definitions and coordinate with manufacturing, qualified panel-shop, and quality personnel to ensure compliance.

Responsibilities include enclosure layouts, selecting panel hardware, creating schematics, BOMs, labels, and assembly instructions, while applying manufacturability practices and

Qualifications

• Bachelors's degree in Instrumentation & Controls, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Automation, Mechatronics, or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years of demonstrated capability developing industrial control-panel enclosures and layouts from requirements through released fabrication and build documentation.
• Proficiency creating electrical schematics, wiring and termination documentation, bills of material, labels, and revision-controlled drawing packages using relevant electrical CAD tools.
• Working knowledge of industrial control components, conductor and terminal practices, overcurrent protection, grounding and bonding, enclosure selection, panel thermal management, and UL 508A-aware design under qualified review.

Responsibilities

• Develop enclosure and back-panel layouts, including component arrangement, wireways, terminals, operator devices, thermal and spacing considerations, service access, and maintainability.
• Select and integrate panel hardware, including enclosures, disconnects, protection devices, power supplies, terminals, wiring materials, and accessories, against approved requirements.
• Create and maintain schematics, wiring and termination documentation, panel-layout drawings, bills of material, labels, assembly instructions, and revision-controlled build packages.
• Apply design-for-manufacture and design-for-assembly practices; coordinate fabrication, workmanship, component traceability, inspection, and compliance reviews with manufacturing, qualified panel-shop, and quality staff.
• Support prototype and production builds, continuity and point-to-point checks, power-up readiness, hardware functional checks, troubleshooting, corrective actions, and engineering changes.
• Define and control hardware interface documentation for PLC, distributed I/O, network, and HMI connections as needed; PLC programming, HMI configuration, and commissioning ownership are outside this role.

Skills

Panel design

Electrical engineering

Industrial automation

UL 508A design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Instrumentation & Controls / Electrical Engineering / Industrial Automation / Mechatronics

Tools

Electrical CAD tools

Job description

The Marvin Group is seeking a UL 508A Control Panel Designer in Southern California near LAX to develop industrial control-panel enclosures, layouts, and manufacturing documentation. You will own hardware definitions and coordinate with manufacturing, qualified panel-shop, and quality personnel to ensure compliance.

Responsibilities include enclosure layouts, selecting panel hardware, creating schematics, BOMs, labels, and assembly instructions, while applying manufacturability practices and