Electrical Engineer

SUMMARY: Provide conceptual design, mechanical design, prototyping supervision and testing of new products.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Product Development

• Seek & define Applications/Customer design requirements in concept phase

• Provide technical support to marketing in the preparation of New Product Business Opportunity Statements

• Design highly reliable electro-mechanical products using computer aided design 3d Modeling computer system.

• Participate in design reviews throughout the Product Development Process (PDP)

• As required, serve as the leader of cross functional Product Development Teams (PDT) during the development of new Products

• Work to performance and cost/volume targets.

• Conduct tolerance analysis and finite element material properties analysis

• Generate detailed drawings to VPC standards using GTD as appropriate.

• Design experiments / test plans to assure compliance to reliability requirements.

• Develop test plans and perform testing or over-see technicians in testing.

• Document or support the documentation of test results

• Use Design for Manufacturability Methods to work with suppliers, VPC manufacturing and other teams to achieve desired results.

• Sustain Engineering Efforts

• Use applications/product knowledge to:

• Serve as consultant for new product requests to filter out rejects, determine the most feasible way to provide a quality quote in the least amount of time.

• Use PDP methods mentioned above to design complex product extensions of existing products.

• Serve as consultant to provide high level applications engineering support to customers.

• Use engineering analysis to resolve customer application issues

• Use engineering analysis to resolve customer quality issues on legacy product.

• Provide support with Eng. Change Notice (ECN) process

• Lead cost reduction efforts for legacy products.

• Performs other related duties as assigned by management.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's Degree (BA) from four-year college or university in Electrical Engineering and training in the design and testing of small, high reliability electromechanical devices.
• 5 years of CAD experience - Solidworks preferred. Familiarity with internet software, e-mail, word processing and spreadsheets. Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, LabVIEW, ANSYS HFSS and Altium PCB Design software a plus.
• Familiarity with Digital Serial Analyzers (DSA), Vector Network Analyzers (VNA) and other electrical test equipment and various manufacturing processes preferred.

Virginia Panel Corporation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.