Electrical Engineer 5 (# 7894)

Electrical Engineer 5 - (85949-1) 
Chillicothe, IL - Onsite
12 months contract 

Job Description:     
Summary: The main function of an electrical engineer is to design, develop, test or supervise the manufacturing and installation of electrical equipment, components, or systems for commercial, industrial, military or scientific use. A typical electrical engineer has the ability to make engineering drawings, and read and interpret blueprints.

Job Responsibilities:
- Supervise the design, development, and testing of the manufacture of electrical equipment, including machinery controls, wiring, and lighting.
- Review and approve the cost effectiveness, reliability and safety of certain design models.
- Discuss estimates for time and cost to complete projects with clients.
- Supervise the simulation and testing of machine/structure/system operation and monitor product quality.
- Direct and coordinate manufacturing, construction, installation, maintenance, support, documentation, and testing activities to ensure compliance with specifications, codes, and customer requirements.
- Inspect completed installations and observe operations to ensure conformance to design and equipment specifications and compliance with operational and safety standards.

Skills:
- Creativity, verbal and written communication skills, analytical and problem solving ability.
- Team player and detail oriented.
- Displays attributes of a critical thinker and leverages innovative ideas.
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback.
- Expert ability to perform details calculations to compute and establish manufacturing, construction and installation standards and specifications.
- Expert ability to make sketches, engineering drawings and common computations.
- Expert ability to apply principles of electrical theory to engineering projects.
- Previous experience with computer applications and design software related to engineering field.

Education/Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering required.
- 10+ years experience required.

Position’s Contributions to Work Group: 
- Provide motor / converter / battery performance assessment, including cycle evaluations, dynamics, and cost estimations
- Support different machine platform on hybrid, full electric configurations
- Provide simulation models for system study needs 

Reason/motivation for request:
- Backfill

Why Client ? “Whether it be ground-breaking products, best in class solutions or a lifelong career, you can build what matters to you at Client. With 150 locations in countries around the world, what you create at Client travels and helps people around the world. You can collaborate with the best minds in the industry, complete meaningful work and continuously grow and develop through our various opportunities. Here, you can do the work that matters.”

Why this Role?
- Working with Client electrification efforts on different machine platforms
- Tackle the high power electric drive system challenges with typically MW power conversion needs

Typical task breakdown:
- Collect machine info, engage with different business sections
- Create component / system models with simulation tools
- Delivery quality report and presentations to end customers

Interaction with team: 
-  Daily interaction with team members

Team Structure
- Manager/Tech Lead/Senior Engineers/Junior Engineers/Contractors

Work environment: 
- Office/Lab

Education & Experience Required:  
- Years of experience:  >10
- Degree requirement:  BS required,  MS/PhD preferred
- Do you accept internships as job experience:  Yes
- Are there past or additional job titles or roles that would provide comparable background to this role:  

Top 3 Skills 
- Power conversion knowledge, motor/drive/battery
- Simulations skills
- Team player

Additional Technical Skills 
(Required)
-  Documentation
- Presentation

(Desired) 
-  Thermal knowledge

Soft Skills
(Required)
-  Listening/Learning/Coaching

(Desired) 
-  Self-starter

Travel Requirement: 0-25% domestic
Export Control Requirements: YES

Ravi Teja
615-219-6196
ravi.teja@harveynash.com