Electrical Engineer

Job Summary

Location: Detroit, MI

The Electrical Engineer is responsible for developing and managing preventative maintenance efforts for electrical systems throughout the company's facilities.

Key Accountabilities

• The Electrical Engineer is responsible for developing a comprehensive program in accordance with prudent industrial practices to ensure the safe, continuous, and reliable operation of all electrical infrastructure including transformers, switchgear, feeders, bus duct, motors, and other ancillary equipment
• The Electrical Engineer will work closely with manufacturing and operations to identify, evaluate, and prioritize maintenance efforts
• The Electrical Engineer works closely with the Utility Services Manager, who is the lead Company position at the client site, to ensure that energy goals are met, and client satisfaction is achieved
• This position will report to an assigned client's manufacturing facilities for day-to-day work, and occasionally visit other company locations in a consulting role to provide expertise for due diligence and as needed for emergency responses

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on large industrial or utility distribution systems including protective relaying

Other Qualifications

Preferred:

• Professional Engineer certification is desired
• Ability to function within a matrix organization in which functional and business leaders have equal authority within the organization and employees report to both a functional leader and a business leader
• Ability to develop and maintain productive relationships with both a functional and a business leader, who collaborates on employee issues and decisions (including performance management, compensation, and development)

Physical Demands & Working Conditions

The physical demands characterized here epitomize those that must be met by an employee to properly perform the integral functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. In order to properly perform the integral functions of this job, the employee is required to:

• Occasionally stand or walk and stoop or kneel. Frequently, the employee is required to sit
• Talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use wrists, hands and/or fingers in a repetitive motion; and reach with hands and arms extensively
• Occasionally lift objects of up to 10 pounds in weight
• Use computers with exposure to video display terminals; and some repetitive motion associated with data entry, the use of a computer mouse, and while using other office equipment
• Vision requirements for this position include close vision, color vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus

The employee performs job duties primarily in a work from home capacity and periodically from a climate-controlled office environment, with a moderate noise level. However, on an occasional basis the employee may be required to travel to project sites where noise levels and environmental conditions may vary.