Are you looking to join a growing organization and use your skills to help drive our product innovations into the future? Winnebago Industries is seeking an Electrical Engineer to join our Enterprise Test and Technology Services team based in Middlebury, IN or Savage, MN. This role will support the development, integration, and validation of electrical systems across Winnebago Industries business units. This role will work hands-on with vehicle electrical architecture, power distribution, wiring and harness systems, component integration, troubleshooting, and electrification projects while helping establish reusable engineering methods and standards across the enterprise.
Day to Day of the Role:
- Design and integrate vehicle electrical systems, including 12V/24V/48V power distribution, wiring, harnesses, electrical components, sensors, and controls interfaces.
- Develop electrical schematics, system diagrams, interface definitions, load calculations, component specifications, and engineering documentation.
- Support electrical architecture development from requirements and concepts through prototype, validation, and production readiness.
- Troubleshoot vehicle and component-level electrical issues and perform structured root-cause analysis.
- Support electrical component selection and evaluation based on performance, reliability, cost, integration, and application requirements.
- Plan and support electrical system and component validation in collaboration with ETTS test engineering and BU engineering teams.
- Work with suppliers on technical requirements, component development, prototypes, testing, and issue resolution.
- Collaborate closely with mechanical, embedded/software, manufacturing, sourcing, quality, and service teams.
- Support electrification initiatives involving energy storage, power conversion, charging, higher-voltage architectures, and advanced vehicle electrical systems.
- Develop and promote common electrical engineering methods, standards, reference architectures, and best practices across business units.
- Participate in cross-business-unit electrical engineering activities and communities of practice, sharing lessons learned and technical knowledge.
- Other duties as assigned based on business need
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or related engineering discipline.
- 0-3+ years of relevant electrical engineering experience preferred, ideally involving vehicles, mobile equipment, transportation, recreational products, or other integrated electromechanical systems.
- Experience with electrical schematic or harness-development tools such as SolidWorks Electrical, Capital, Zuken, AutoCAD Electrical, or similar.
- Experience with electrical test equipment, data acquisition, CAN tools, and hands-on prototype troubleshooting preferred.
- Experience with 48V systems, lithium-ion batteries, power conversion, charging systems, or vehicle electrification is desirable.
- This position will require travel up to approximately 40% to support business-unit engineering activities, prototype builds, suppliers, and testing.
This posting includes a range of the salary across a geographical market. The base pay for this position ranges from $85,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $120,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Dependent on the position other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.winnebagoind.com/careers/total-rewards.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related engineering discipline
- 0-3+ years of relevant electrical engineering experience, preferably involving vehicles, mobile equipment, transportation, recreational products, or integrated electromechanical systems
- Experience with electrical schematic or harness-development tools such as SolidWorks Electrical, Capital, Zuken, AutoCAD Electrical, or similar
- Experience with electrical test equipment, data acquisition, CAN tools, and hands-on prototype troubleshooting
- Experience with 48V systems, lithium-ion batteries, power conversion, charging systems, or vehicle electrification
What We Do
At Winnebago Industries we help our customers explore the outdoor lifestyle, enabling extraordinary mobile experiences as they travel, live, work and play. Winnebago Industries, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of outdoor lifestyle products under the Winnebago, Grand Design, Chris-Craft, and Newmar brands, which are used primarily in leisure travel and outdoor recreation activities. Our 5,700 team members across Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota and Florida deliver on our vision to be the trusted leader in outdoor lifestyle solutions by providing unmatched innovation, quality and service. We’re looking for people who are as passionate about their work as they are about the outdoors. We seek fresh minds and skilled hands that can bring new perspectives, ways of working and technology to deliver exceptional experiences. We do this best when we allow ourselves the time to enjoy the environment — so we seek to keep a healthy balance between work and play. Be part of a team that treats each other with the respect, trust and humility needed to create extraordinary outdoor experiences for our customers.
