Staff Electrical Component Engineer

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Generac Home is seeking a Staff Electrical Components Engineer join our growing Generac Home team. This role is responsible for ensuring the selection, quality, reliability, and performance of electronic components used across Generac’s energy products. 

The successful candidate will work with the electrical design team in support of component selection, their in-circuit performance verification, lead supplier qualification activities, and manage the technical aspects of assigning electronic commodities. This includes conducting process audits, driving root cause analysis, and resolving supplier-related quality issues.

This position requires a strong passion for delivering high-quality, defect-free components and subassemblies, ensuring they meet design specifications and support the reliable manufacture of final assemblies.

Up to 20/25% travel may be required for this role.

This position ideally would be based in our S. Portland ME office with optional locations of Waukesha WI or Reno NV.

Major Responsibilities

• Participate in design reviews with the electrical engineering team, contributing to the development and validation of electrical systems, including schematics, PCB layouts, and wiring diagrams for solar and battery energy storage applications.

• Utilize circuit simulation tools such as LTspice to analyze and validate designs, ensuring component selection meets performance, reliability, and regulatory requirements.

• Own qualification and technical evaluation of electronic components, including MOSFETs, PCBs, magnetics (wound components), discrete analog/digital components, relays, ICs, and interconnects (cables and connectors).

• Experience with magnetics design such as transformers, inductors and chokes with knowledge of analyzing core materials, winding configurations and losses.

• Apply strong expertise in power electronics, including high-frequency AC–DC, DC–AC, and DC–DC conversion topologies.

• Analyze and interpret component datasheets to support optimal part selection, performance, and reliability.

• Serve as a key contributor in electrical design reviews, ensuring component reliability and alignment with system requirements.

• Review engineering drawings and specifications to verify quality requirements; identify and communicate gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities.

• Identify Critical-to-Quality (CTQ) components within BOMs and manage PPAP activities with suppliers to ensure component quality, reliability and compliance requirements are met.

• Apply 8D problem solving methodologies to investigate component issues, conduct root cause analysis and issue SCARS to suppliers to drive effective corrective actions and prevent recurrence

• Perform supplier manufacturing process audits and assessments to ensure compliance with quality standards, process controls and product reliability requirements.

• Hands-on experience in electronic parts selection and qualification to ensure parts are qualified by design documents and selected test parameters.

• Experience working on electronic assembly environments with contract manufacturing where component qualification through Parts PPAP process and IQC was required

• Perform additional duties as required

Minimum Job Requirements

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering

Work Experience

• Hands on experience on electronic parts selection and qualification to ensure parts are qualified by design documents and selected test parameters.

• Experience working on electronic assembly environments with contract manufacturing where component qualification through Parts PPAP process and IQC was required.

• Demonstrated experience with Wire-Wound magnetic components (transformers, inductors).

• Candidate has hands on technical expertise in magnetics and manufacturing, not just quality oversight

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Must possess strong technical fluency in selecting power Mosfets. Good technical fluency in other commodities reflected in the responsibilities list above will be a plus.

• Experience with eCAD tools like Altium, Eagle to design review an electrical design at schematic and layout levels.

• Solid quantitative skill set and the ability to analyze and communicate with well-supported data

• Proficient with the suite of Office Software, Quality and Statistical tools.

• An individual critical thinker to strategically align actions to needs and set goals for a technical team for success.

Preferred Job Requirements

Education

• Master degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Power Electronics

• Formally trained in magnetics design for power electronic applications

Certification / License

• Familiarity with lean manufacturing principles, Six Sigma green or black belt preferred.

• IEEE certification will be a plus.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Proven experience collaborating with multiple sites and functions to solve common solutions

• Experience collaborating with component manufacturers, distributors, and field application engineers (FAE) to stay current on new product introductions and application specific solutions

• Must possess strong technical fluency in selecting wire wound magnetics and power mosfets.

• Experience with eCAD tools like Altium, Eagle to design review an electrical design at schematic and layout levels.

• Solid quantitative skill set and the ability to analyze and communicate with well-supported data

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While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls.  The employee is regularly required to stand and walk.  On occasion, the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend, or reach above the shoulders.  The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 pounds. Specific conditions of this job are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting, close vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

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