Electrical Engineer III - Parcel

Position Description

TREW is a provider of Automated Equipment, Control Systems and Warehouse Execution Software. As a Electrical Engineer III, you will design and implement electrical controls systems for automated material handling equipment. This is project/application-based work that includes development of specifications, electrical device layouts, schematics and panel drawings. Project design and testing will take place in the office. Completed work is installed and tested at the clients’ facility.

You must be self-motivated, dedicated and possess a strong sense of initiative. You must have the ability to easily adapt to changing situations and have a strong technical background in electrical and controls systems. Candidates must have a strong task-based skillset with a focus on organization, time-management, and prioritization. Candidates will have excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal and customer service skills plus the ability to collaborate effectively with a wide range of people at all levels of expertise.

As an Electrical Engineer III, you will be involved in projects from the concept phase through design, programming, testing and onsite support. You will serve as the primary technical contact for a project. You will have direct interaction with clients throughout each project. You will work closely with Mechanical Engineering, Controls Engineering and Project Management. On large projects, you will work within a design team and for smaller projects you will work on your own with supervision from team leaders, project engineers, project managers and your supervisor.

• Verifies customer specification documentation including meeting with both client and internal project teams to define applications and produce functional specification or description of operation documents
• Leads training/mentoring of co-op personnel and junior engineers on design process, system commissioning, and department methods and delegates tasks as appropriate
• Leads small to medium sized projects by defining and executing the work. Works independently and with minimal supervision.
• Leads large sized projects to execute design per project requirements with minimal supervision
• Works closely with project leads on large sized projects to execute design per project requirements.
• Defines and maintains a project schedule and ensures the project team meets or exceeds milestones
• Defines and maintains the project forecast for resources, materials, and expenses
• Meets or exceeds the financial budget for resources, materials, and expenses
• Directs and assigns teammates as well as assigns priorities to meet the project needs
• Generates project specific documentation using standard company formats
• Uses AutoCAD and AutoCAD Electrical for electrical design including device layouts, schematics, control panel design and communication architecture diagrams
• Selects components and prepares bills of material
• Coordinates order entry of field components and control panels
• Designs electrical interfaces to devices such as network I/O, variable speed drives, camera/laser scanner , and scales
• Customizes standard products to meet the requirements of each project
• Conducts in-house preliminary testing and onsite testing of the system as installed at the customer’s facility
• Interacts with mechanical engineering, controls engineering, control panel fabricators and installation personnel
• Works closely with controls engineers to integrate project solutions
• Participates and leads design reviews and turnovers with project teams
• Performs on-site technical checkout, often working with installation teams
• Performs on-site system commissioning at client sites to validate controls design
• Provides customer training and support during project turnover to the end user
• Provides continued support for finished projects
• Ensures all project checklists and ‘as-built’ documentation is complete and archived at project completion
• Assists engineering leadership in completion of work-flow process and updates work-flow instructions
• Reports project status to the project managers and department supervisor/manager
• Identifies methods and tools to improve…