Electrical Engineer

Job Description

Position Summary:

The Applications Engineer 1 is primarily responsible for providing application software and commissioning support of capital projects. This includes properly implementing A&D products and staying within the scope and budget of his/her assigned projects.

The Applications Engineer 1 is secondarily responsible for providing various technical assistance in support of Sales, Marketing, Product Engineering, Training, and Project Engineering.

Essential Duties:

Primary duties include:

• Application development of simple projects for battery, chassis, engine, and other powertrain related testing using company software tools
• Demonstrate the ability to lead small projects with direction from team leader
• Partition project tasks into manageable elements and accurately estimate schedule and budget for each with direction from team leader
• Demonstrate applied knowledge of technical concepts, practices, procedures and data acquisition and control hardware
• Demonstrate innovation and creativity in resolving technical issues
• Commission test stands/cells of simple projects, by performing tasks:
  • Setup, configure, and troubleshoot instrumentation such as, well as other test cell systems and the interfaces to those systems
  • Implement and tune control loops
  • Monitor and control relevant safety circuits
  • Provide commissioning documentation of final configuration
  • Obtain customer sign-off
  • Act as liaison and company representative with customers during a project
  • Perform follow-up technical support on specific applications
  • Provide hands on operations training to customers at their site
  • Support the Project Manager with regular progress updates

Secondary duties include:

• Provide technical assistance to other departments:
  • Provide technical support to the sales process by presenting demonstrations of company products to customers
  • Make presentations at company trade shows
  • Provide support and expertise in the concepting of new products and features
  • Provide testing and evaluation expertise for testing of new products and features
  • Support Marketing in producing product specifications
  • Assist or fill in as Help Desk Coordinator

Job Requirements:

• Requires BS degree in engineering or AAS degree in a technical field plus a minimum of 5-year relevant technical experience
• Basic understanding of electrical and mechanical processes
• Basic knowledge of PC operation, structure, MS Windows, and computer networking
• Travel to customer locations
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Open to 60-80% Travel