Job Summary
The Power Solutions & Distribution Product Line within the Power Management Business Unit is responsible for managing the global portfolio of power switching and distribution products to best serve the customers in the critical infrastructure market. Key activities include launching new products and services, managing the existing portfolio of products and services, and executing end production and service. The team operates in a global and cross-functional environment and has frequent interactions with customers, sales, engineering, marketing, and operations.
Power Solutions & Distribution Engineering in Delaware, Ohio, is looking for a motivated, highly technical Transformer Engineer to design and test transformers and inductors for our three phase power distribution products. The Transformer Engineer is responsible for the design, development, testing, and lifecycle support of power transformers and magnetic components used in power distribution systems. The role spans from concept through production, working cross-functionally with manufacturing, quality, and program teams. The magnetic designs range from 50kVA to over 1000kVA. We are looking for someone with experience in high frequency power inductor design (greater than 3kHz) and distribution transformer design. You will be part of a dynamic team that will be developing the future regional and global product lines.
Responsibilities:
- Design magnetic components for power distribution products, including transformers, chokes, other inductors, and current transformers to meet specifications for power, configuration, size, cost, efficiency, and manufacturability
- Support manufacturing facilities to develop fabrication and testing techniques for magnetic components
- Test prototype components to verify compliance with specifications
- Analyze magnetic component failures to determine root cause and corrective action
- Review new materials, design, and manufacturing technologies and recommend adoption for promising technologies
- Provide design assistance to our global engineering teams including participation in concept and design reviews and support our global manufacturing centers.
- Provides authoritative technical leadership to Engineers and other team members
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, with an emphasis in power and magnetics.
- A minimum of two years of relevant experience preferred.
- Knowledge of:
- Transformer design fundamentals (core, winding, insulation)
- Loss calculation (core/copper)
- Thermal modeling and dielectric design
- Skilled in the use of electromechanical simulation, analysis and design tools such as OPS, Ansoft, or similar.
- Familiarity with FMEA
- Thorough knowledge of agency and compliance (e.g. UL, IEEE, NEMA) requirements for magnetic components
- Good written and verbal communications skills; Ability to manage multiple assignments productively; Ability to work in a challenging, team-oriented environment
- Ability to collaborate on a global scale
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Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to 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 extend from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs around 34,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit Vertiv.com to learn more.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with emphasis in power and magnetics.
- Minimum of three years' relevant experience.
- Experience designing power transformers and magnetic components, including high-frequency inductors (>3kHz) and distribution transformers.
- Knowledge of transformer design fundamentals (core, winding, insulation).
- Ability to perform loss calculation (core and copper).
- Thermal modeling and dielectric design experience.
- Skilled in electromechanical simulation, analysis and design tools such as OPS, Ansoft, or similar.
- Familiarity with FMEA.
- Thorough knowledge of agency and compliance requirements (e.g., UL, IEEE, NEMA) for magnetic components.
- Good written and verbal communication; ability to manage multiple assignments and work collaboratively on global teams.
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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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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.
