Electrical Designer

Position: Electrical Designer - The Toro Company
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of a school/employment or any other visa, regardless of expiration date, now or in the future. Who Are We?     The Toro Company is a homegrown, Minnesota-based company that has been in business since 1914. We pride ourselves on providing world-class equipment to help maintain the environment that we love, while putting an emphasis on giving back to the communities that surround us.

From residential lawns and gardens, to venues such as St Andrews Links and Target Field, we are a company with a global footprint and a passion for helping people beautify whatever landscape they may be in. With 100 years of operation under our belt and a healthy tenure, come find out what makes The Toro Company the best place in the Twin Cities to build a career.

Job Purpose:

Provide technical leadership across programs; establish best practices, mentor the designcommunity, and de-risk launches through early manufacturability and cost optimization.

What Will You Do?  Create designs and design layouts for new electrical system concepts, new electrical products, or improvements to existing electrical products.

Create engineering design for new and improved electrical routings or products which meet market, safety, quality, performance, reliability, durability requirements of the customer.

Prepare electrical schematics and wiring harness drawings.  Coordinate designs with others assigned to the project to ensure integration of the design into the machine model.

Responsible for basic design calculations relating to current, voltage, power, temperature, heat buildup, bend radius and mounting locations.

Secure assistance of consultants or internal specialists, i.e. Electrical, Mechanical and/or Manufacturing engineers and vendor experts.

Use the best technology available in each and every area of design.

Support team design reviews, safety reviews and cost and manufacturing reviews.

Assure that all parts designed are manufacturable.

Maintain accurate lists of parts created.  Coordinate or help to coordinate the release of parts for production whether for prototypes or final production. Components may include solid state devices, switches, sensors, solenoids, actuators and other special assemblies.

Work with design engineers, manufacturing engineers, test engineers and others to determine changes which are needed to meet customer requirements.  Solve harness routing and electrical design problems.  Coordinate the required documentation to assure that the changes are implemented on a timely basis.

Keep supervisor informed of project status and issues that may require assistance.

Related Duties:

Enter and maintain documentation in SAPUse Arcadia to document the system architecture and Creo Cabling to create harness routing

Assist manufacturing/assembly during prototype, pilot, and production. Perform follow-up on engineering.

Prepare prototypes to assure needs are met for sales, marketing, manuals, packaging, service, manufacturing and QC reference.

Document potential patentable ideas.

Keep informed of new design, manufacturing and materials developments.

Perform miscellaneous duties as may be requested.

What Do You Need?

Graduate of an accredited technical school for design and drafting (two-year course) combined with a minimum of five years of experience in electrical or electronics design.

-- OR --Graduate of an accredited university or college with a Bachelor of Science degree in an engineering related technology (ex. Electrical, Mechanical, Automotive, Manufacturing, or Design) with a minimum of three years of experience in electrical or electronics design.

Skills/

Competencies:

Computer Aided Design (CAD);
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