Position: Electrical Engineer
Location: Mossville, IL (Onsite) - NEED LOCALS
Duration: 26+ months
Electrical Engineer Overview:
This position will have responsibility for defining and validating high voltage electrical components and systems (50V to over 1000V) and supporting powertrain integration for electrification programs (including diesel-electric, battery-electric, and hybrid machines), from concept through production. This position will be accountable for translating system requirements into appropriate high voltage electrical system designs while ensuring alignment with key safety standards. It will also have accountability for electrical system auditing, troubleshooting, validation, and issue resolution to ensure alignment to safety and regulatory standards and reliability expectations.
Education Requirements: - Bachelor's in Engineering (ME, EE) plus 10 years of experience
- Masters's in Engineering (ME, EE) plus 8 years of experience
Required Skills for the Electrical Engineer:
- Initiative
- Collaboration
- Intellectual Curiosity (appetite to learn)
- Experience with systems over 300V DC
- Strong grasp of electrical theory
- Microsoft products
Preferred Skills:
- Knowledge of electrical standards, IEC, ISO, NFPA, IEEE
- Fuse coordination, cable sizing, arc flash, short circuit
- etap, pspice, matlab, visio, Creo schematics
Responsibilities:
- Analyzing HV systems for proper protections and arc flash mitigation, using tools like ETAP, Pspice
- Creating electric powertrain system and sub-system diagrams
- Ensuring proper overload protection device selection and coordination
- Defining, integrating, and validating high voltage components in machine powertrain applications
- Driving requirements definition in support of electrical safety standards (IEEE, NFPA, IEC, ISO, UN)
- Assisting technical leads in conveying software requirements and component electronic information for HV diagnostics, events, and warnings to the various controls teams
- Virtual audits of HV powertrain systems for grounding, bonding, and cable selection / routing
- Supporting machine commissioning by evaluating compliance with standards, documenting and resolving issues and verifying safe operating procedures
- Development of HV system design guides, leveraging best practices and lessons from prior machine projects
- Sizing high voltage cables in powertrain applications
- Troubleshooting and analysis of field data
- Educating process partners on the hazards and best practices for working on high voltage electrical systems