Senior Electrical Project Engineer

Job Title
Senior Electrical Project Engineer Job Description

We are looking for an Electrical Project Engineer Senior level that will support the North American Service Distribution Team.

This is a remote position and requires frequent travel to customer sites.
Vanderlande ’s Engineering Department is responsible for the design, specification, and commissioning of Material Handling Systems for our customers throughout North America.

In this position you will be working with an engineering project team focused on
retrofitting brownfield customer facilities sites with complex automated material handling systems. You will be responsible for ensuring the design meets the customer requirements, is coordinated with other trades to ensure proper operation, can be installed and operated with efficiency, and maintain excellent communication with the site team.

Success in this role involves the ability to balance the technical requirements of the role while also having the soft skills to collaborate with and motivate the engineering team.  It also involves working closely with stakeholders from other disciplines and other departments to balance priorities, improve processes and satisfy a complex set of goals. 

Success will require strong technical skills, creativity, strong interpersonal
skills, drive, and passion.  A successful candidate will demonstrate a keen intuition for problem solving and have the knowledge and skills to help other team members to solve problems. 

Key Responsibilities :
Your responsibilities will include, but not limited to:
• Develop compliant electrical and process control systems that meet the customer specifications and safety regulations
• Peer review designs created by other engineers to ensure compliance to customer specifications and safety regulations
• Optimize the system functionality from as-sold to a working electrical design within the budget in consultation with other disciplines (Mechanical, Controls, Supply Chain, Installation, etc.)
• Design, review, and approve system and component level calculations to size
components and equipment for the application (conductor sizing, voltage drop,
motor starters, overcurrent and short circuit protection, control panels, control
networks, harmonic studies, load studies, etc.)
• Design, review and approve complex process control systems using PLCs,
Photoeyes, Scanners, DC motors, Solenoids, Beacons, Horns, IO Blocks, Class 2
Power Supplies, non-Class 2 Power Supplies, VFDs (including STO), E-Stop
zones, Ethernet Networks, motor branch circuit grouping, etc.
• Engineering of project specials needed for non-standard design applications
• Apply safety regulations

- Specify, review and approve the electrical and process control equipment required for the complete process system that operates and controls both Vanderlande manufactured, and third party purchased items
• Use software tools (AutoCAD Electrical, Word, Excel, etc.) to develop electrical
designs such as wiring diagrams, termination lists, Bill of Materials, etc.
• Document all engineering decisions through design plans, complete and clear
installation files, and engineering instructions directed to a site supervisor and
installation subcontractor
• Travel to site as needed to conduct site surveys
• Support the installation and commissioning both on site, and from your home office
• Project document control using a rights-based database system

Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or electrical engineering technology
• Minimum of 8 years of related work experience (4 years must be within the material
handling industry or other process industry)
• Or Associate EE/ET with 12 years related experience (4 years must be within the material handling industry or other process industry)
• Must be willing and able to travel domestically up to 30%
• Ability to think conceptually (overall process system design) and translate this into a detailed