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ELECTRICAL MANAGER DESCRIPTION
Summary
The Electrical Manager supervises the Controls Engineering Department and the Electrical Engineering Department. This role is responsible for overseeing quality, prioritizing tasks and process improvements, and providing leadership to the aforementioned departments, as well acting as a liaison between these Engineering groups and the Electrical Assembly department.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Oversees quality control for Automation Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Electrical Assembly.
• Maintains shop presence and is available for interfacing with Production.
• Reviews customer/contractor’s bids and specifications.
• Creates, modifies and finalizes bills of material (BOM’s) for both production and bids.
• Attends project meetings as required by the project.
• Creates and modifies electrical drawings and control panel layouts.
• Performs automation and control systems design, specification, simulation, and start-up assistance.
• Implements specialized techniques and approaches to handle automation projects.
• Develops customized programs specific to customer needs and requirements.
• Programs and tests various pieces of automated machinery.
• Upgrades the design of existing devices by adding automation elements.
• Maintains confidential operational system information.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending service trainings, workshops, reviewing professional publications and establishing networks.
• Offers suggestions to improve equipment or department performance.
• Ensures UL compliance and interfaces with the UL inspector(s).
• Assists new employees with training and development and relays important knowledge gained from the field.
• Provides engineering support by answering questions and requests from inside or outside the organization.
• Seeks outside resources to assist with implementing operating procedures, resolve system malfunctions and to seek technical support/information.
• Assists employees with training and development and implementation of continuous improvement ideas.
• Spearheads the development of design standards.
• Provides leadership and guidance to department employees.
• Prioritizes and delegates tasks to department employees as necessary.
• Completes performance reviews for department employees.
• Assists Purchasing in measurable vendor cost reduction efforts.
• Keeps within budgeted labor hours assigned to the Electrical Engineering Department.
• Stays within budgeted material costs assigned to projects.
• Tracks project status daily and reports to the Director of Engineering weekly.
• Addresses personnel issues and concerns when necessary.
• Approves PTO and reviews timesheets for department employees.
Miscellaneous Responsibilities
• Other tasks, duties and projects as assigned by management.
• Continuous improvement in testing processes.
• This position is primarily onsite and is not eligible for the hybrid work schedule.
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent from four-year college in Electrical Engineering or similar discipline.
• Two to five years of related experience and/or training.
• Must reside within a 25-mile radius of our Chaska location.
• Strong UL compliance knowledge.
• Ability to pass the UL508A MTR exam for UL.
• Internet software; Excel Spreadsheet software and Word, Adobe Word Processing software.
• Ability to design, read and comprehend technical drawings.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business information, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and co-workers.
• Careful attention to detail, with strong commitment to accuracy and quality.
• Well organized and conducts self professionally.
Preferred Qualifications
• Previous experience leading a team.
• Knowledge or experience with AutoCAD.
• Allen Bradley/Rockwell PLC and HMI programming skills.
• ERP experience, Epicor preferred.
• Experience specifying system components for operation and monitoring of filtration systems or similar technologies/equipment.
• Regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk and hear.
• Frequently required to stand and reach with hands and arms.
• Occasionally required to walk; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Benefits/Pay
• 144 hours (18 days) of annual Paid Time Off(PTO). The amount increases after 5 years of employment.
• Paid Holidays (Schedule of our Paid Holidays is available upon request).
• Daily Per Diem (when traveling for business needs). All flights and hotel paid for by the company.
• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance options through HealthPartners and VSP/Principal.
• Flexible Spending Account options (Health and Dependent Care) through Alerus.
• Company paid LTD, Basic Life Insurance and AD&D policy ($50K).
• 401k plan through Fidelity with company match.
• Aflac policy options.
• $130,000.00-$135,000.00 (FLSA Exempt)
