Jobs at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL)

Designs physical and electrical substation systems, including layouts, grounding, conduit, lighting, foundations, fencing, drawings, documentation, and bills of materials. Supports project estimates and technical leads while meeting quality, timeline, and budget requirements. The role also requires knowledge of protective relay and automation applications, SEL equipment, CAD tools, and electric utility design practices, along with mentoring junior designers and contributing to process improvements.

Supervise manufacturing operations by monitoring processes, managing employee performance, mentoring supervisors, addressing personnel issues, overseeing training, auditing processes, and implementing Lean Manufacturing and safety initiatives. The role coordinates with engineering on product launches, supports staffing and capital planning through data reporting, and drives continuous improvement aligned with organizational and World Class Manufacturing principles.

Supports the design, integration, testing, and validation of communication, protection, and automation solutions for electric power systems. Develops test plans, simulations, and laboratory evaluations to assess product functionality, performance, and reliability. Applies engineering and analytical methods to improve SEL products, documents technical findings, and collaborates with experienced engineers while building expertise in power systems, protocols, protection, and automation.

Lead manufacturing quality assurance for a new facility by building quality systems, improving process capability, troubleshooting material and assembly issues, analyzing defects, partnering with suppliers, supporting audits, driving product and component improvements, and supervising, coaching, and developing a team of quality professionals and engineers.

Lead manufacturing quality assurance for a new facility by developing quality systems, improving process capability, troubleshooting material and assembly issues, analyzing defects, partnering with suppliers, supporting audits, and driving product and component reliability improvements. Supervise, coach, and develop a team of quality professionals while collaborating with manufacturing, engineering, and site leadership to establish a strong quality culture and scale operations.

Designs mechanical components, fixtures, and tools for PCB-mounted magnetic components. Responsibilities include CAD design, materials and component selection, tolerance and thermal analysis, manufacturability, vendor qualification, BOMs, testing, documentation, and manufacturing process improvement. The role also mentors junior engineering staff and supports compliance and environmental testing.

Designs and develops analog and digital hardware for Navy electric power systems. Responsibilities include creating hardware and system specifications, developing and executing test plans, documenting designs, managing moderately complex hardware projects, coordinating with purchasing and manufacturing, and mentoring associate engineers and technicians. The role requires collaboration across engineering teams and supports the development of a new shipboard product line.

Provides technical support for power system automation projects, including developing proposals, interpreting RFQs, designing and configuring automation systems, preparing documentation, and conducting testing, pre-commissioning, and commissioning. The role supports SEL products and solutions such as microgrid controllers, GCS, RAS, and LSS, while training customers and mentoring automation engineers. Requires an electrical engineering background, interest in power systems, teamwork, and at least 40% domestic and international travel.

Performs dynamic, transient, steady-state, short-circuit, load-flow, contingency, stability, protection coordination, and renewable integration studies for transmission and distribution networks. Develops mitigation strategies, models industrial loads and interconnections, prepares technical reports and customer presentations, supports project proposals, and advises utilities and regulatory stakeholders on grid codes and compliance.

Perform dynamic, transient, steady-state, short-circuit, load flow, contingency, stability, protection coordination, and renewable integration studies for transmission and distribution systems. Develop mitigation strategies, model industrial loads and interconnections, assess grid reliability, prepare technical reports and presentations, support proposals, collaborate on project execution, and present solutions to utilities, customers, EPCs, and regulatory bodies.

Provides administrative support to project teams, including project setup, document control, communications, deliverable tracking, procurement, logistics, inventory traceability, shipment coordination, and invoicing. Maintains accurate project records and ensures documentation, billing inputs, customer portal submissions, and stakeholder responses are properly managed. Requires strong organization, communication, attention to detail, and proficiency with Microsoft Office. Experience with Deltek Vantagepoint or ERP software is preferred.

Lead a team to develop, deploy, and sustain metal manufacturing processes in a high-mix prototyping environment. Troubleshoot production issues, optimize CAM and build plans, create work instructions, specify equipment, mentor staff, and drive process improvements to improve quality, throughput, and manufacturability.

Leads the Process Control and Reliability team for a new greenfield manufacturing facility. Establishes maintenance practices, develops technical staff, improves equipment reliability and availability, reduces unplanned downtime, and implements corrective actions. Responsibilities include hiring and managing employees, supporting portfolio planning, defining technical solutions, leading projects, presenting to internal and external stakeholders, and building continuous-improvement systems. The role requires extensive travel during the first 6–12 months for training and startup support.

Lead the Process Control and Reliability team for a new greenfield manufacturing facility. Build and develop the team, establish maintenance practices, improve equipment performance and reliability, execute preventive maintenance, resolve equipment issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions. The role also includes hiring and developing employees, supporting long-term strategy, managing technical processes, and extensive travel to other manufacturing facilities during startup.

Supports utility and industrial customer engagements from discovery through deployment and operationalization. Designs, configures, integrates, tests, and troubleshoots Blueframe-based solutions across software, networks, virtual environments, device communications, and data flows. Creates documentation, reusable configuration assets, dashboards, runbooks, and automations while providing customer communication and product feedback. Collaborates with project managers, R&D, support, sales, and engineering teams, with opportunities to mentor teammates and help shape a new services organization.

Design, implement, and test embedded firmware; collaborate with hardware engineers; produce design and test documentation; learn SEL processes and products; follow company values and manufacturing principles.

Process and audit multi-state payroll, reconcile payroll accounts, prepare journal entries, support financial close and audits, and maintain regulatory compliance. Assist with payroll system testing, implementations, process improvements, and compliance initiatives. The role requires accounting and payroll knowledge, strong analytical and communication skills, attention to detail, and proficiency with Excel, payroll, HRIS, and ERP systems.

Design, implement, test, and document embedded firmware and software systems. Collaborate with hardware engineers to address hardware-software interactions, develop test applications, and maintain technical documentation. The engineer will also mentor associate engineers and technicians while applying company operating and manufacturing principles. Required experience includes embedded firmware, real-time systems, C, assembly, C++, Windows GUI development, and scripting languages such as Python and Perl.

Lead product security programs covering software supply chain governance, component provenance, SBOMs, licensing, vulnerability risks, automated security QA, static analysis, fuzzing, and secure SDLC practices. Manage and grow a team of software engineers, advise product teams, select security tools, support regulatory compliance, monitor emerging threats, and represent the company at industry events.

Lead development of custom productivity tools to boost engineering R&D efficiency. Own full application lifecycle, define and report productivity metrics, implement automated testing and CI/CD, provide post-release support, improve processes, and mentor engineers and interns.