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WEG · 1 month ago

Control Panel Design Engineer

Duluth, GA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

6+ years exp

WEG is the largest industrial electric motor manufacturer in the Americas and one of the largest manufacturers of electric motors in the world. The Control Panel Design Engineer creates designs and documentation for industrial motor control panels that meet customer needs while complying with applicable standards and manufacturing procedures.

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Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

Responsibilities

Develops schematics, bill of materials and assembly drawings using AutoCAD

Provide guidance and support to manufacturing and other areas, regarding product requirements (drive collaboration)

Participates in and sometimes provides training for other engineering team members

Study/analyze projects technical documents and specifications

Preventing electrical hazards is a top priority for electrical designers, thus, they need a thorough understanding of relevant standards

Designers have to keep colleagues, managers, and clients in the loop as to progress and deviations from schedule or budget so as not to disturb the workflow of the whole

Designers estimate the time, cost, labor, and materials that are needed to produce a real version of their ideas. They reformulate plans along the way based on unexpected circumstances or client changes

Adhere to best practices for documentation and version control

Define design approach for new products and platforms and generate design specifications

Ability to take neat and accurate field notes, sketches and single lines for use in preparing construction documents

Ability to make design decisions based on specific job requirements and prepare a complete design package

Release panels and prints to operations. Release critical materials for purchasing

Ensure product design meets requirements, quality expectations and timelines (think customer)

Markup schematics, generate revisions or additions to existing drawing sets

Process markups affecting multiple drawings

Ensure consistency across drawing sets (encourage feedback)

Check for practicality of mark-ups and for obstructions & using multi layers (mimic panels)

Create, revise and maintain routings and work centers in the system

Update metrics to improve routings and production planning accuracy

Maintain revision control

SAP tasks execution

Drives cost reduction

Qualification

AutoCADUL 508A3-phase power designVFD principlesBOM systemsMicrosoft OfficeField notesQuality control toolsBasic electronicsTeam collaboration

Required

6+ years of relevant work experience

Basic familiarity with 3-phase and single-phase power design required

VFD and Soft Starter's principles required

AutoCAD required

Excel intermediate (using charts, graphs, fonts, borders, shading, formulas, tables, pivot chart, macros etc.) required

Industrial standards and how they are applied. Standards include but are not limited to: UL 508A, NEC, NEMA. UL508A is required (Short Circuit Current Ratings)

Standards for Control Panels for Use / Relating in Hazardous Locations

Understanding of manufacturing processes and construction methods, as well as the ability to maintain design cost targets

Understanding of BOM systems and material management

Programming of Intelligent Devices / Components

Ability to read schematics for troubleshooting - identify functional defects

Basic electronics and circuit analysis (analyze basic DC and AC - basic electrical laws, series and parallel circuits, network analysis concepts, grounding techniques, magnetism, inductance/capacitance, resistance, diodes, potentiometers, logic operations etc.)

Ability to create logical circuits based on operational description of customer requirements

Familiarity with quality control tools (5S, root cause)

Digital systems: logic families, programming with arithmetic/logic instructions, I/O programming, timers, interrupts and interfacing technique

Electronic circuits: conduction process in semiconductor materials and devices, such as: semiconductor physics; diodes; basic diode circuits and applications; introduction to silicon-controlled rectifiers; device curve characteristics; and related devices with selected application

Preferred

Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite

AutoCAD Electrical / EPLAN preferred

UL508A Standard - MTR Certified preferred

Bachelors in Engineering preferred

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Full benefits package

Company

WEG

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Founded in 1961, WEG is a global electro-electronic equipment company, operating in the capital goods sector a with focus on electric motors, gearboxes and drives and controls, energy generation and transformers, electrification products and systems, automation and digitalization.

Founded in 1991

Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo, BRA

10001+ employees