The Role
Designs electrical systems and drawing packages for automated manufacturing equipment. Collaborates with project managers, controls engineers, manufacturing teams, customers, suppliers, and shop personnel to develop, build, integrate, and support systems. Responsibilities include solving plant issues, selecting pneumatic components, developing predictive maintenance indicators, supporting legacy designs, ensuring standards compliance, and sharing design practices. Requires travel to customer sites for design information and installation support.
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Senior Electrical Engineer – Novi, MI
DISHER is currently partnering with a world leading automation company that specializes in groundbreaking technologies for flawlessly manufacturing millions of products. They have been awarded year after year as a great place to work and one of the "World's Most Admired Companies".
What it's like to work here:
Their team is the secret to their success. They are empowered, inventive, and inclusive. This company champions their teams, foster collaborations, inclusion, respect, and excellence. Working with this company, you will drive innovation with new advancements in industry. You will have opportunity for future training to broaden skills and be a part of a team of experts to drive solutions that improve efficiencies, safety, and quality. You will work with multiple assembly plants and integrator. If you are passionate about your craft and are driven to succeed, this could be the place for you!
What you will get to do:
- Work closely with Project Managers, Controls Engineers, the manufacturing team, and customers to develop systems and complete projects.
- Provide electrical design along with drawing creation while under minimal technical supervision.
- Prepare drawing packages for manufacture and assembly, ensuring they are complete and accurate, meeting all customer drawing requirements as well as proper standards.
- Collaborate with shop members prior to and during the build.
- Deliberate with Controls engineers to design for integration and select pneumatic components.
- Develop Electrical designs to solve production plant issues.
- Develop predictive maintenance indicators to increase reliability and reduce downtime.
- Support legacy Electrical designs.
- Share design methodologies, productivity tools, standards, processes, and legacy information for increased knowledge and experience within the company.
- Develop designs from direction supplied by Novi program management and external engineers.
What will make you successful:
- Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.
- 3 years of experience in a design role at an automation/machine build shop.
- Knowledge and experience with electrical circuits and PLC programing.
- Motivated to initiate and implement tasks, strategies, and techniques in a goal-oriented manner to increase productivity and profitability.
- Technically creative with an understanding of Electrical functions to provide solutions in a robust and economical manner.
- Capable of evaluating quotations, specifications, and documentation to discern functional requirements, identify missing information, and define tasks for Electrical designs.
- Organized and flexible in work functions allowing for resolute, multitasking, and task interrupted duties.
- Analytical and decisive to define, evaluate and solve problems in an organized process.
- Effective communication skills, both written and verbal with competency in computer and Microsoft Office products.
- Ability to collaborate in team environments while maintaining individual duties effectively.
- Communication across cross functional groups.
- Communication with suppliers to aid in design decisions.
- Committed to integrity, ethical, and economical practices.
- Ability to travel 20% to customer sites to capture design info or assist installation.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience
- Three years of experience in a design role at an automation or machine build shop
- Knowledge and experience with electrical circuits
- Knowledge and experience with PLC programming
- Ability to use Microsoft Office products
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to collaborate in team environments while managing individual responsibilities
- Ability to travel 20% to customer sites
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The Company
What We Do
DISHER is a professional engineering services and product development company. They provide innovation and design, product development, and manufacturing support services to Fortune 500 companies, suppliers, and independent inventors. Additionally, the company offers staffing and consulting services, helping clients across various industries including medical device, automotive, and aerospace turn ambitious projects into completed realities.
