Electrical Engineering Manager

Thea Energy is leveraging recent breakthroughs in stellarator physics and engineering to create a faster and simpler approach to commercializing fusion energy. The company is reinventing the stellarator using computer-controlled arrays of planar coils thereby replacing the intricate, complex modular magnets required in all other stellarator architectures. Thea Energy is on a mission to create a limitless source of zero emission energy for a sustainable future.

The Electrical Engineering Manager is accountable for the engineering execution and operating readiness of electrical and power supply systems used by Thea Energy's technology development programs. The work covers prototype equipment, experimental test stands, and facilities used to test superconducting magnets. The manager turns approved program requirements into systems that can be built, commissioned, operated, maintained, and modified safely.

The manager leads a multidisciplinary team of electrical engineers, power electronics engineers, electronics design engineers, technicians, and other specialists. This is a hands-on leadership role with responsibility for the team's daily priorities, technical coordination, field execution, and delivery evidence.

• Team direction. Set clear work ownership and goals for direct reports. Provide coaching, technical guidance, and performance feedback. Conduct reviews and recommend hiring, promotion, compensation, and development actions.

• Program planning. Translate program milestones into engineering work packages, resource estimates, schedules, review points, and acceptance criteria. Track progress, risks, dependencies, and recovery actions across concurrent development efforts.

• Cross-functional coordination. Build collaboration across multi-disciplinary engineering and program teams and resolve working-level interface issues.

• Test facility electrical design. Develop the detailed electrical architecture for assigned test stands and prototype equipment. Produce load lists, single-line diagrams, equipment specifications, cable and conductor sizing, panel and switch gear designs, grounding and bonding details, and equipment interfaces.

• Power system studies. Perform or coordinate load-flow, short-circuit, protection coordination, transient, and power quality studies. Keep models aligned with approved equipment, operating modes, and credible fault conditions.

• Power conversion. Lead development and integration of high-power converters, DC power supplies, superconducting magnet power supplies, and approved energy storage or compensation equipment. Coordinate thermal, sensing, protection, and controls interfaces.

• Electronics hardware. Oversee analog, digital, mixed-signal, power, and embedded control hardware. Guide component selection, schematic and PCB design, design review, prototype bring-up, design for manufacture, design for test, and hardware release.

• Engineering definition. Define electrical requirements, interface documents, verification methods, and acceptance criteria with systems engineering and equipment owners. Maintain configuration control as prototypes and test programs evolve.

• Supplier execution. Manage the technical execution of approved supplier work packages, including submittal review, interface coordination, test witnessing, and acceptance evidence.

• Build test and commissioning. Lead working-level design reviews, prototype bring-up, load testing, FMEA, RCA, factory and site acceptance tests, installation, commissioning, and troubleshooting.

• Electrical safety. Implement electrical protection, isolation, interlocks, emergency responses, lockout and tagout provisions, and fail-safe behavior. Contribute to hazard analyses and verify protective functions before release.

• Electromagnetic compatibility. Control electromagnetic interference and noise across boards, cabinets, cables, grounding, shielding, high-power switching equipment, instrumentation, and mixed-signal interfaces.

• Lifecycle reliability. Establish inspection, preventive maintenance, spare parts, obsolescence, and change control practices for assigned systems. Investigate recurring failures and improve availability, serviceability, and maintainability.

• Engineering record. Maintain the engineering record for assigned systems, including calculations, models, drawings, schematics, bills of material, cable and wiring schedules, test procedures, configuration baselines, operating instructions, maintenance…