Sr. Systems Architect, Heavy Industries

For this U.S. based position, the expected compensation range is $140,000 - $201,000 per year, which includes base pay and short-term incentive.

Main mission

ELECTRA program is a common initiative from Power Products and Power Systems Divisions, intended to shape the future of electrical power distribution architectures in strategic industrial and building segments such as Petro-chemical, Water and Waste Water treatment, waste recovery, Mining, metallurgy, Motor management, Hotels, Hospitals, etc..
To reinforce its positioning on the North and South America market we are looking for a Senior power systems architect for heavy industry and water-waste-water applications.

Functions of the Senior Systems Architect:

• Business support:
  • Elaborate state-of-the-art and optimized power system architectures to reinforce Schneider Electric competitiveness in business projects
  • Engage high level discussions with customers to capture expressed and unexpressed needs
• Strategy and offer support:
  • Identify new opportunities for evolutions of the product portfolio, in LV, MV products, equipment and power conversion
• Influence:
  • Support our most valuable customers and ecosystem partners in prioritized technical investigations with expertise in power systems design, equipment sizing, power quality impacts, protection, products and equipment
  • Create highly valuable content to promote & prescribe through workshops & trainings SE solutions and competencies (white papers, webinars, conference papers)
• Knowledge sharing:
  • Organize and deliver technical support and trainings to internal sales and tendering organization
  • Support the partner ecosystem, particularly design firms on the target segments, typically trainings and webinars

Application knowledge:

• Expected basic understanding of the principle industrial processes in Petro-chemical and waste-water treatment, and key performance indicators, constraints, operation, customer roles & responsibilities
• When relevant, ability to interact on technology innovation by experimentations with customers and technical investigations (modeling, simulation of specific components and behaviors)

Power Systems expertise:

• Contribute to the definition of optimized and competitive MV/LV power systems architecture based on Schneider Electric offer capabilities and contribute to the definition of innovative electrical distribution architectures of the future
• Strong knowledge in power systems engineering (network simulation, protection, AC & DC power electronics conversion, power quality)
• Very good knowledge of SE offers (MV, LV, monitoring & control, relays) and familiar with the basic renewable energy sources (PV and solar)

• BA/BS degree in Engineering or the equivalent of 15+ years of experience in electrical industry application development
• 5+ years experience in electrical system design
• 3+ years working in industrial or building applications
• Professional Engineering (PE) license strongly preferred
• PhD in Engineering preferred
• Strong written, verbal, and visual communication and presentation skills required
• Willingness and ability to develop and elaborate technical communication materials to promote Schneider Electric solutions emphasizing on differentiation and customer benefits

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