The Role
Lead product development for LV switchgear: manage a small engineering team, ensure IEC 61439 and UAE regulatory compliance, run internal and external lab testing and type-testing, approve designs/BOMs, drive prototyping, validation, value engineering, and coordinate factory readiness through to commercialization.
Summary Generated by Built In
Job Description: Product Development/Lab Tech Manager – LV Switchgear IEC
Job Purpose
A key member of the Product Development team in design, development and validation of LV switchgear, ensuring compliance with IEC 61439 and local UAE authority regulations (for example ADDC)
Key Responsibilities
- Development Leadership for UAE based development projects: Lead a small team including an engineer and technicians, helping to drive the development of new, high-performance, and cost-effective LV switchgear products.
- IEC 61439 Compliance & Design Verification: Oversee design verification, ensuring all assemblies meet IEC 61439 requirements for temperature rise, dielectric strength, and short-circuit withstand. Where necessary arranging same with third party labs
- Lab Management & Testing: Management of internal test lab and collaborate with external test labs to realise type-testing goals, prototyping and validation. Analyse test data to ensure product performance matches design criteria.
- Technical Design & Innovation: Approve technical drawings/models, BOMs, and design modifications. Drive value engineering and cost optimization initiatives.
- UAE and ‘in region’ Market Standards: Ensure products adhere to local UAE, as well as other ‘in region’ authority regulations for LV Switchgear, control panels and other Vertiv switchgear products.
- Project Management: In collaboration with the Product management team and wider product development team, manage projects from concept to commercialisation, ensuring alignment with project timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
- Factory Interface: Support manufacturing, engineering coordination, and factory readiness for new designs.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
- Experience: extensive experience in similar/associated roles, with specific experience of LV Switchgear, switchgear sheet metal enclosures and fabrication capabilities.
- Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of IEC 61439-1 & 2 (Low Voltage Switchgear and Controlgear Assemblies) and UAE quality regs.
- Lab Experience: Proven experience managing or working with testing laboratories, with familiarity in ASTA/KEMA certification and type-testing procedures to IEC 61439
- Soft Skills: Strong leadership, project management, and cross-functional communication skills.
Associated Standards & Knowledge
- Core Standard: IEC 61439 Series (Parts 1, 2, and 6).
- Related Standards: IEC 60947 (Components), IEC 60898, IEC 61008/61009, and IEC 61010.
- Regional Requirements: ADDC requirements, ASTA certification, and Quality/Safety procedures.
- Tools: AutoCAD. Solidworks or similar
Key Competencies
- Prototyping & Validation: Hands-on experience with prototyping and validation, specifically for switchgear enclosures.
- Value Engineering: Experience reducing product cost without sacrificing compliance or quality.
- Component Knowledge: Expertise in Circuit Breakers, Switch Devices, and Control Gear.
About the Team
Work Authorization
No calls or agencies please. Vertiv will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We promote equal opportunities for all with respect to hiring, terms of employment, mobility, training, compensation, and occupational health, without discrimination as to age, race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy status (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression (including transgender status or sexual stereotypes), genetic information, citizenship status, national origin, protected veteran status, political affiliation, or disability.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
- Extensive experience in LV switchgear design and development, including sheet metal enclosures and fabrication capabilities
- Deep knowledge of IEC 61439 (Parts 1, 2 and 6) and related IEC standards
- Familiarity with UAE authority regulations (e.g., ADDC) and regional compliance requirements
- Proven experience managing or working with testing laboratories and type-testing procedures
- Familiarity with ASTA/KEMA certification processes
- Hands-on experience with prototyping, validation, and test data analysis for switchgear enclosures
- Experience approving technical drawings/models, BOMs, and managing design modifications
- Experience in value engineering and cost optimization while maintaining compliance and quality
- Expertise in circuit breakers, switch devices, and control gear components
- Proficiency with AutoCAD and SolidWorks or similar CAD tools
- Strong leadership, project management, and cross-functional communication skills
Vertiv Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with standard medical, dental, and vision plans plus wellness and mental-health resources. Core offerings also include disability and life insurance and an Employee Assistance Program.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes paid holidays and PTO typical of large employers, and many U.S. salaried roles feature flexible or "unlimited" PTO approaches. These programs are part of a structured, global total rewards framework.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered fair at start for many office-based, engineering, and field service roles, and total compensation packages are viewed as stable. In some hourly manufacturing settings, overtime opportunities help boost overall earnings.
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The Company
What We Do
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to ensure its customers’ vital applications run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs approximately 20,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news and content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com.
