Control Panel Design Engineer

About The Role

Control Panel Design Engineer creates designs and documentation for industrial motor control panels that meet customer needs/requirements while complying with applicable standards and manufacturing procedures. These designs include standard products, modified standard products, customer or application specific OEM products, and custom products. Designers are responsible for all documentation including drawings, manufacturing instructions, and bills of materials. Designers must interface with sales, service, customers, and production.

Must be able to work individually and as part of a team to achieve desired results.

• Develops schematics, bill of materials and assembly drawings using AutoCAD.
• Provide guidance and support to manufacturing and other areas, regarding product requirements (drive collaboration).
• Participates in and sometimes provides training for other engineering team members.
• Study/analyze projects technical documents and specifications.
• Preventing electrical hazards is a top priority for electrical designers, thus, they need a thorough understanding of relevant standards.
• Designers have to keep colleagues, managers, and clients in the loop as to progress and deviations from schedule or budget so as not to disturb the workflow of the whole.
• Designers estimate the time, cost, labor, and materials that are needed to produce a real version of their ideas. They reformulate plans along the way based on unexpected circumstances or client changes.
• Adhere to best practices for documentation and version control.
• Define design approach for new products and platforms and generate design specifications.
• Ability to take neat and accurate field notes, sketches and single lines for use in preparing construction documents.
• Ability to make design decisions based on specific job requirements and prepare a complete design package.
• Release panels and prints to operations. Release critical materials for purchasing.
• Ensure product design meets requirements, quality expectations and timelines (think customer).
• Markup schematics, generate revisions or additions to existing drawing sets.
• Process markups affecting multiple drawings.
• Ensure consistency across drawing sets (encourage feedback).
• Check for practicality of mark-ups and for obstructions & using multi layers (mimic panels).
• Create, revise and maintain routings and work centers in the system.
• Update metrics to improve routings and production planning accuracy.
• Maintain revision control.
• SAP tasks execution.
• Drives cost reduction.

• 6+ years of relevant work experience

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite.
• Basic familiarity with 3-phase and single-phase power design required.
• VFD and Soft Starter’s principles required.
• AutoCAD required. AutoCAD Electrical / EPLAN preferred.
• Excel intermediate (using charts, graphs, fonts, borders, shading, formulas, tables, pivot chart, macros etc.) required.
• Industrial standards and how they are applied. Standards include but are not limited to: UL 508A, NEC, NEMA. UL508A is required (Short Circuit Current Ratings). UL508A Standard - MTR Certified preferred.
• Standards for Control Panels for Use / Relating in Hazardous Locations.
• Understanding of manufacturing processes and construction methods, as well as the ability to maintain design cost targets.
• Understanding of BOM systems and material management.
• Programming of Intelligent Devices / Components.
• Ability to read schematics for troubleshooting - identify functional defects. (Required)
• Familiarity with basic programming methods and parameter identification of industrial drives and/or soft starters.
• Ability to create logical circuits based on operational description of customer requirements.
• Familiarity with quality control tools (5S, root cause).
• Basic electronics and circuit analysis (analyze basic DC and AC - basic electrical laws, series and parallel circuits, network analysis concepts, grounding techniques, magnetism, inductance/capacitance, resistance, diodes, potentiometers, logic operations etc. (Required).
• Digital systems: logic families, programming with arithmetic/logic instructions, I/O programming,…