Jobs at Powell Industries

Supports strategic sourcing, category strategy, supplier management, and procurement analysis. Responsibilities include monitoring supply markets, developing sourcing strategies, managing RFI/RFQ/RFP processes, evaluating supplier costs, negotiating with suppliers, driving cost reduction, ensuring compliance, and supporting supplier performance governance. The role uses Excel-based analysis and retrieves data from Oracle and Power Apps. Some travel between campuses and buildings is required.

Develops new business and manages existing accounts for automation products, services, and solutions across Canada. Responsibilities include solution selling, customer presentations, sales strategy, contract reviews, technical proposals, forecasting, account relationship management, and supervision of manufacturer sales representatives. Requires strong knowledge of substation automation, power distribution standards, and industrial automation technologies, along with substantial travel and customer-facing experience.

Leads complex projects from requirements through closeout, managing scope, schedules, budgets, quality, risks, contracts, customer communications, and benefit realization. Coordinates cross-functional teams, oversees project financials and reporting, ensures contractual and company requirements are met, and drives continuous improvement. Mentors and supervises junior project personnel while supporting proposal development and stakeholder alignment. Requires approximately 5–10% travel to manufacturing, construction, and customer sites.

Coordinates outbound domestic and international shipments, leads shipping associates, schedules personnel and carriers, prepares shipping documentation, verifies loads, manages freight claims, and maintains shipping supplies. The role also involves physically moving, packaging, loading, and securing materials using forklifts and cranes while enforcing safety procedures and processing Oracle shipping transactions.

Leads electrical engineering projects from concept through completion, designing custom low- and medium-voltage switchgear, motor control systems, schematics, wiring diagrams, and control schemes. Reviews client specifications, creates bills of materials, validates designs, supports manufacturing and customers, coordinates with suppliers and cross-functional teams, resolves production issues, and mentors junior engineers. Requires advanced AutoCAD, power distribution, relay application, and switchgear design expertise.

Leads electrical engineering projects for medium- and low-voltage switchgear from design through completion. Develops bills of material, electrical drawings, one-lines, three-lines, and control schemes; reviews customer specifications; directs designers; and coordinates with project management, production, customers, sales, and inspection teams. Applies power-system and relay expertise, electrical codes, and cost-effective design practices while managing multiple projects, resolving technical issues, and supporting production.

Leads monthly financial close and consolidation, corporate and SEC reporting, compliance reporting, account reconciliations, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting. Supports audits, investor relations materials, international legal entities, and accounting teams. The role requires strong technical accounting, financial analysis, reporting systems, stakeholder communication, and deadline management skills.

Leads Project Management teams overseeing project lifecycles from requirements through retirement. Ensures delivery within scope, schedule, budget, quality, and benefit targets while managing customer relationships, contracts, stakeholders, and cross-functional coordination. Provides team leadership, coaching, performance management, process improvement, budget monitoring, issue resolution, and executive communication. Requires extensive project management experience, PMP or APM certification, and experience leading matrixed teams in complex manufacturing environments.

Designs and develops medium- and low-voltage switchgear, including bills of material, electrical drawings, one-lines, three-lines, and control schemes. Reviews customer specifications, coordinates with project management and production, supports multiple projects, troubleshoots technical issues, and provides engineering assistance. Applies power-system, relay, NEC, ANSI/IEEE, safety, and cost-competitive design principles while supporting shop, customer, sales, and inspection teams.

Reviews customer specifications and electrical drawings to assess feasibility, develop accurate technical proposals, estimate costs, and optimize solutions for customers and Powell. Supports Sales as a technical resource, evaluates subcontractor proposals, contributes to product specifications and cost-reduction initiatives, and collaborates across engineering and operations. The role primarily involves proposal preparation, with limited travel for customer meetings, conferences, training, and internal collaboration.

Designs and coordinates mechanical and electrical building systems in BIM using Revit and related software. Creates layouts, schematics, schedules, drawings, and shop drawing submittals; manages revisions and as-built information; coordinates MEP subcontractors; resolves design issues; supports budgeting, material ordering, field inspections, and customer communication. Ensures designs comply with specifications, building codes, safety requirements, and quality documentation standards.

Creates mechanical design drawings and assembly documentation with support from mechanical engineers. Assists product development, prototype and manufacturing activities, and mechanical troubleshooting. Learns materials, industry codes, electrical design, ISO procedures, safety requirements, and vendor products. The role requires basic CAD skills and may involve laboratory, shop, construction-site, and customer-facility work.

Leads outside sales and business development for electrical service solutions across Eastern Canada. Responsibilities include sourcing opportunities, managing customer relationships, developing regional sales strategies, supporting proposals and negotiations, achieving revenue and profitability targets, delivering technical presentations, resolving customer issues, tracking pipelines, and traveling regularly to customers and company locations.

As a Senior Electrical Engineer, lead projects designing custom Low and Medium Voltage Switchgear, mentor junior engineers, draft electrical drawings, and provide technical support. Collaborate with clients, manage project specifications, and ensure adherence to budget and timelines.

Manage electrical manufacturing and complex industrial projects from requirements through closeout. Responsibilities include planning schedules, budgets, forecasts, contracts, risks, quality, scope changes, stakeholder communications, customer relationships, progress reporting, and project management plans. The role coordinates matrixed teams, leads meetings, supports proposals, manages project financials and P&L objectives, and drives continuous improvement. Work occurs primarily in an office with occasional manufacturing, construction-site, and customer-facility exposure.

Leads manufacturing engineering, equipment reliability, facility maintenance, process improvement, and capital projects. Manages engineering and facilities teams, preventive and predictive maintenance programs, equipment troubleshooting, Lean initiatives, budgets, contractors, audits, safety and regulatory compliance. Oversees manufacturing processes, utilities, infrastructure, equipment installations, production launches, and continuous improvement activities while maintaining records and improving productivity, quality, cost, and uptime.

Manages projects from requirements through closeout, overseeing scope, schedules, budgets, quality, risks, contracts, customer communications, deliverables, and benefit realization. Leads cross-functional teams in a matrix environment, chairs kickoff and stakeholder meetings, manages project financials and reporting, ensures contractual compliance, and drives continuous improvement. The role requires approximately 5–10% travel and occasional work in manufacturing, construction, and customer facility environments.

Designs Powell standard electrical products from customer specifications, develops drawings and proposals, orders materials, and interfaces with sales, customers, and production. Reviews lower-level engineers’ work, checks wiring diagrams, provides technical guidance, troubleshoots complex application issues, and supports product improvements. Applies electrical design, power systems, relay coordination, short-circuit studies, industry codes, standards, and ISO requirements. May assign tasks, provide feedback, train engineers, and contribute to industry standards and professional development.

Designs Powell standard electrical products using customer specifications, creates and modifies drawings, interprets wiring diagrams and electrical codes, orders materials, and coordinates with sales, customers, designers, and shop personnel. The role checks diagrams, answers technical questions, resolves basic application problems, directs designers, applies power-system and relay knowledge, and improves product quality and cost efficiency.

Leads strategic and tactical HR support for a designated division, advising leaders on employee relations, performance management, compensation, talent management, engagement, organizational development, succession planning, recruiting, compliance, and employment law. Serves as the primary HR partner to leadership, coaches managers, implements people strategies, manages sensitive investigations, and supports regulatory reporting and HR communications across a multisite organization.