Senior Electrical Program Engineer

FORTNA partners with the world’s leading brands to transform omnichannel and parcel distribution operations. Known world-wide for enabling companies to keep pace with digital disruption and growth objectives, we design and deliver solutions, powered by intelligent software, to optimize fast, accurate and cost-effective order fulfillment and last mile delivery. Our people, innovative approach and proprietary algorithms and tools ensure optimal operations design and material and information flow.

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The Senior Electrical Program Engineer (SEPE) provides senior-level electrical engineering expertise across FORTNA’s parcel customer's program, with an emphasis on conveyor and parcel-handling systems. This position supports projects primarily during the pre-award, estimating, planning, and handoff phases to help ensure electrical scope, design assumptions, schedules, risks, and costs are appropriately defined before execution begins.

Serving as a trusted technical liaison, the Senior Electrical Program Engineer works across parcel customer, Sales, Estimating, Scheduling, Engineering, Strategic Sourcing, Field Services, and project execution teams. The position reviews and advises on project‑specific work while owning the electrical standards, standard designs, and engineering practices used across the electrical program.

This is a senior individual‑contributor role with no direct reports. The position leads through technical expertise, mentoring, collaboration, and influence rather than formal authority.

• Develop an in‑depth understanding of customer technical standards, electrical specifications, and operational requirements.
• Participate in pre‑award technical reviews, scope reviews, bid reviews, and project handoff activities.
• Review proposed electrical solutions and identify design concerns, missing requirements, scope gaps, risks, clarifications, and necessary exceptions.
• Advise Estimating on electrical hardware, engineering hours, system requirements, and technical assumptions without owning the final estimate.
• Provide input to project schedules by evaluating engineering duration, resource requirements, technical dependencies, and execution risks.
• Support the development of risk registers and provide electrical engineering input during opportunity and project reviews.
• Serve as a senior technical interface between the customer and FORTNA’s electrical engineering organization.
• Translate customer decisions, revised standards, and technical requirements into clear direction for project execution teams.
• Own and maintain customer electrical standards, standard control panels, drawing packages, templates, and reusable engineering solutions.
• Review project designs, drawings, calculations, hardware selections, and technical documentation to confirm alignment with established standards.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary design reviews to promote effective integration between electrical, controls, mechanical, software, estimating, and field teams.
• Capture and distribute lessons learned across…