Senior Electrical Engineer

Job Description:

Senior Electrical Engineer

Job Summary:

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We are looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer whose visionary professional will help drive next-generation tracker product innovation, enhancements, features, and improvements. As a thought leader on electrical, electronics, and controls, you will work with all levels of management, engineering, and other departments to create and select technologies and products that will continue to set the standard for the industry.   This position may require occasional evening and weekend hours.

Key Job Responsibilities:

Owns final recommendations on electrical aspects of innovation concepts

Ensure product evolution and innovation meet customer needs and are in synch with market trends

Serve as the expert on industry trends for all aspects of photovoltaic tracking products

Create roadmap that is in synch with market needs and ahead of market trends and the competition

Develop concepts and preliminary designs for new product improvements

Analyze and vet product concepts for customer needs, ease of installation, business cases, manufacturability, reliability, and safety

Lead design review process

Approve critical design decisions

Obtain components/supplies/equipment to support prototype assembly

Conduct preliminary OEM vendor assessment/selection

Analyze different materials, techniques, manufacturing processes, design tolerances, and other factors in the developmental process

Fabricate and tests new designs

Select the best product innovation and concept designs to bring into the product line

Provide technical leadership for key engineering projects

Provide regular updates to management

Create and maintain necessary documentation for program success

Perform competitive analyses

Participate in voice of customer sessions

Present new product ideas to customer for feedback

Work with customer-facing departments to ensure customer feedback/experience is accounted for in product improvements

Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

6+ years of electrical engineering experience

3+ years design experience with electromechanical, electrical, electronics, and controls systems

3+ years of experience thoroughly and accurately documenting design intent, analysis results, test results, etc.

3+ years hands on computer experience with Microsoft Office, CAD, and ERP

2+ year of electromechanical/electronics production techniques experience

2+ years of experience defining and setting up tests and run experiments quickly

Preferred qualifications:

Master’s degree in electrical engineering

Design experience with electromechanical drive assemblies and communications networks

Design skills such as FEA, DFA, DFM, design for cost

Experience with SolidWorks and SolidWorks EPDM

Background in product development

Experience in the solar industry

Experience with Stage Gate Product Development processes

Excellent communication, organizational, prioritizing, multi-tasking, and time-management skills

Experience with utility scale PV plant design & control, and construction and PV Plant   DC and AC collection systems

Ability to work well independently as well as part of a team

Expertise with the application of design for reliability

Ability to lead, manage, mentor, and inspire others

Experience in a matrixed environment

Ability to work across multiple organizations in a fast paced, smaller company environment

At Array Tech, Inc., we strive to lead with our culture, and believe that our people are a key enabler of our future state. Our total rewards philosophy supports Array’s ability to attract, develop, and retain our employees. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and wellness programs that align with the local markets where we do business.

Array Tech, Inc. offers equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.

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