Principal Switchboard Development Engineer

# Global Power Components## Principal Switchboard Development Engineer Apply:
51st Street:
Full time:
Posted Yesterday:
JR100112.
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* Title:

** Principal Switchboard Development Engineer
** Company:
** Global Power Components –
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* Location:

** Milwaukee, WI (onsite 5-days/week)
** Hire Type:
** Direct Hire
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* Position Summary:

** Global Power Components is seeking a Principal Switchboard Development Engineer to lead the engineering development of its switchboard product portfolio. Working from product requirements established by the business and the market, this role will translate required applications, ratings, performance requirements, and general product layouts into certified, manufacturable, and scalable switchboard products. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with responsibility for product architecture, detailed engineering, analysis, validation, certification, and production release.

The engineer will serve as the technical lead for switchboard development, with direct ownership of bus structures, electrical enclosures, and the engineering methods used to develop the product.
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* Key Responsibilities:

**** Technical Leadership and Product Development
*** Lead the engineering development of switchboards from defined product requirements through production release.
* Translate required applications, ratings, performance objectives, and general product layouts into complete technical designs.
* Establish the product architecture needed to meet electrical, mechanical, thermal, certification, manufacturing, cost, reliability, and serviceability requirements.
* Create development plans, engineering requirements, design reviews, technical studies, and engineering documentation.
* Lead cross-functional technical work across electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, quality, certification, and testing.
* Serve as the primary technical authority for switchboard product development throughout the product lifecycle.
** Bus Structures and Enclosure Development
*** Own the design and development of switchboard bus structures, joints, supports, bracing systems, service sections, distribution sections, grounding systems, barriers, and electrical enclosures.
* Develop designs that meet short-circuit withstand, temperature-rise, dielectric, serviceability, manufacturability, and safety requirements.
* Integrate circuit breakers, fusible devices, metering, controls, communications, utility interfaces, and customer options into the overall product design.
* Establish standard design methods, calculation approaches, component interfaces, materials, tolerances, and construction practices.
* Develop modular and configurable engineering structures that support customer-specific applications while maintaining control of the core product design.
* Partner directly with manufacturing to ensure designs can be fabricated, assembled, wired, inspected, and tested safely and repeatedly.
** Engineering Analysis and Simulation
*** Use modern engineering, calculation, and simulation tools to guide design decisions and reduce development and certification risk.
* Perform or direct analysis of short-circuit forces, bus bracing, temperature rise, structural loading, dielectric performance, and enclosure performance.
* Build analysis into the product-development process rather than relying on over sizing, excessive material, or repeated trial-and-error testing.
* Document engineering assumptions, models, calculations, margins, and conclusions so the analysis supports design reviews and certification activities.
* Correlate engineering analysis and simulation results with laboratory test results, then use those findings to improve product designs and reusable engineering rules.
** Certification and Testing
*** Lead technical compliance and certification efforts associated with UL 891 and other standards applicable to the defined product requirements.
* Develop design-verification and certification plans, including test samples, instrumentation, acceptance criteria, test sequences, and supporting technical documentation.
* Lead laboratory testing, evaluate results, direct failure analysis, and drive corrective actions when required.
* Use engineering analysis and rigorous design reviews to enter certification testing with a high level of confidence in product performance.
* Coordinate technical activities with UL, testing laboratories, component suppliers, and technology partners.
** Production Release and Lifecycle Support
*** Develop and approve…