Jobs at CEL Critical Power

Own product and service costing, cost centre reporting, profitability analysis, inventory valuation, COGS reconciliation, budgeting, forecasting, and financial controls. Partner with project, operations, and commercial teams to analyze variances, improve margins, support pricing decisions, and enhance SAP-based cost tracking. Maintain standard costs, BOM costing, overhead rates, and project financial reporting while driving process improvements and automation.

HR Business Partner advising senior leaders across Irish and US operations. Responsibilities include workforce planning, employee relations, employment-law compliance, performance and talent management, reward, engagement, organisational change, HR analytics, dashboards, HRIS implementation, and scalable policy and process development in a fast-growing engineering and manufacturing business.

Coordinate employee lifecycle activities from offer acceptance through offboarding, including onboarding, contracts, pre-employment checks, probation tracking, HR records, reporting, policy documentation, and employee support. Maintain HRIS and timekeeping data, support HRIS implementation and migration projects, ensure GDPR and Irish compliance, coordinate training and performance cycles, and contribute to HR process improvements across Ireland and the United States.

Owns full-cycle recruitment for CEL’s Ireland operation, managing entry- to mid-level requisitions across sales, finance, production, engineering, and manufacturing. Responsibilities include sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offers, stakeholder partnership, talent pipeline development, employer branding, ATS data management, KPI reporting, compliance, and candidate experience. The role supports rapid organizational growth through structured, data-driven recruitment processes and continuous improvement.

Leads complex, high-value customer projects across international operations while overseeing a portfolio of concurrent projects and managing Project Managers. Responsibilities include project governance, financial performance, scheduling, risk and change management, customer and executive stakeholder engagement, contract oversight, supplier coordination, and cross-functional delivery across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, commercial, and finance teams.

Leads complex, high-value customer programmes across international manufacturing operations. Responsibilities include programme governance, integrated scheduling, risk and change management, financial and capacity planning, subcontractor oversight, delivery performance, customer communication, and process improvement. The role partners with Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Commercial, and Project Management teams to improve delivery certainty, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction while scaling global programme capabilities.

General Operators assemble electrical switchgear panels and components, including mechanical frames, copper assemblies, wire harnesses, panel plates, and doors. Responsibilities include cable preparation, labeling, product wrapping, material handling, housekeeping, and adherence to quality, environmental, health, and safety procedures. The role requires physical activity, lifting up to 50 pounds, extended standing, teamwork, attention to detail, and willingness to learn. Full training is provided.

Leads CEL’s enterprise AI adoption by developing the AI roadmap, identifying and scaling use cases, integrating AI with ERP, CAD/PLM, CRM, Microsoft 365, and other systems, and establishing responsible AI governance. The role partners with business, IT, vendors, and external providers; develops adoption metrics; trains employees; manages change; and supports AI-enabled engineering, predictive maintenance, analytics, and intelligent infrastructure initiatives.

Own and optimize SAP Business ByDesign across Ireland and the United States. Provide ERP support to manufacturing, supply chain, warehouse, quality, project, and finance teams; manage configuration, workflows, access, master data, reporting, integrations, testing, releases, and user training. Support implementations, upgrades, migrations, and transformation initiatives while helping define CEL’s future ERP strategy and systems roadmap.

Owns and improves project governance, portfolio reporting, stage-gate processes, dashboards, RAID logs, dependency management, budgets, and project controls across strategic manufacturing and digital transformation initiatives. The role supports project planning, risk escalation, stakeholder coaching, reporting automation, and continuous improvement while partnering with Business Systems, Manufacturing, Engineering, Finance, and senior leadership across Ireland and North America.

Owns PMO governance, lifecycle controls, portfolio reporting, scheduling, forecasting, risk escalation, and data integrity across manufacturing projects. The role maintains project schedules and systems, builds Power BI dashboards, coordinates cross-functional planning meetings, manages change and baseline controls, supports recovery plans, and drives PMO process improvements. It requires close collaboration across Sales, Engineering, Procurement, Production, and Finance at the on-site Williamsburg, Virginia manufacturing facility.

Designs and maintains 3D CAD models, mechanical assemblies, sheet metal components, and 2D manufacturing drawings for switchgear and power distribution products. Manages BOMs, CAD libraries, documentation, tolerances, and material specifications. Optimizes designs for manufacturability, cost, and assembly while interpreting electrical schematics. Collaborates with electrical designers, project managers, production teams, and suppliers to resolve technical issues and support manufacturing.

Perform maintenance, testing, fault diagnosis and emergency support for LV and MV switchgear across client sites. Deliver PPM, relay and breaker testing, isolation and switching operations, commissioning, documentation, and customer-facing technical support while ensuring safety and regulatory compliance.

The Modular Design Manager oversees the Modular Design Team, ensuring compliance with standards, providing project reports, and supporting continuous improvement efforts in modular construction.

The Project Engineer at CEL will liaise between production and engineering teams, resolve technical queries, manage project data, and improve designs for electrical switchgear products.

Produce accurate 3D CAD models and 2D manufacturing drawings for electrical switchgear. Ensure designs are manufacturable, cost-effective, and aligned with CAD standards. Collaborate with electrical designers, project managers, production, and suppliers, maintain BOMs and component libraries, provide production support, and optimise designs for material efficiency and fabrication.

The role involves ensuring quality in manufacturing processes, implementing process improvements, managing compliance, and collaborating cross-functionally.