Staff Electrical Engineer

Staff Engineer

Shaw Industries Group, Inc. is a leader in flooring and other surface solutions designed for residential housing, commercial spaces and outdoor environments. Leveraging strengths in design, innovation and operational excellence, the company takes a people-centered, customer-focused, and growth-minded approach to meet diverse market needs. It creates differentiated customer experiences through its expansive portfolio of brands: Anderson Tuftex, COREtec, Shaw Floors, Patcraft, Philadelphia Commercial, Shaw Contract, Shaw Sports Turf, Shawgrass, Southwest Greens, Watershed Geo and more.

Headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, Shaw is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. with more than $6 billion in annual sales and 18,000 associates worldwide.

Position Overview

Under the limited direction of the Engineering Manager, this position is primarily responsible and accountable for project development, design, and execution, with a secondary focus on technical support for manufacturing facilities. Work is often multi-disciplined and requires close coordination with manufacturing management, other corporate departments, and outside agencies. While project assignments may at times overlap into other disciplines such as mechanical systems and manufacturing processes, the primary focus of this position is electrical and power systems. This position is responsible for collecting design criteria, preparing detailed schedules, preparing technical specifications, developing engineering designs, assembling project estimates, creating engineered drawings, and utilizing project management tools to ensure projects meet safety, quality, schedule, performance, and budget requirements.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop and execute capital and expensed projects, sometimes large and complex, with detailed scopes of work, detailed schedules, and appropriations-grade budgets.
• Solicit detailed stakeholder design criteria and translates same into actionable technical designs, plans, and scope elements to ensure achievement of project objectives.
• Partner with project stakeholders to develop project options and proposals to facilitate decision-making by business leaders.
• Develop and submit detailed documentation required to solicit project approval through online project administration software tools.
• Maintain project files and publish periodic project reports.
• Consistently apply technical standards, engineering best practices, project management processes, and project management tools, and champion the use of the same with facility-level engineering teams.
• Track spending and maintain control of project cost performance. Act as the primary point of accountability for adherence to the project budgets.
• Manage onsite contractor activities, ensuring consistent enforcement of regulatory, corporate and plant policies such as safety, ethics, environmental, etc.
• Minimize project-related disruptions to normal plant activities and coordinate necessary disruptions with plant management in advance.
• Perform project-related quality control functions, inspecting vendor-supplied equipment and construction work to ensure compliance with specifications, drawings, timeline requirements, and other requirements as defined in contract packages.
• Provide an active onsite resource for project commissioning, startup, and optimization.

Technical Expertise

• Possess strong knowledge of the design of electrical systems in an industrial environment including 12470 Volt, 4160 Volt, and 480 Volt power distribution.
• Possess strong working knowledge of and adheres to the requirements of NFPA 70 (National Electric Code), NFPA 70E (Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace), NFPA 70B (Standard for Electrical Equipment Maintenance), and NESC/ANSI C2 (National Electric Safety Code).
• Develop and retain process knowledge and related manufacturing expertise necessary to successfully execute projects and job assignments.
• Collaborate with facility teams, technical teams, and other engineers to develop innovative solutions to complex problems and business opportunities.
• Provide coaching and support for engineers and other facility-level technical resources.

Key Leadership Competencies

• Plan and Organize
• Drive Results
• Initiate Action
• Build Trusting Relationships

Required Qualifications:

• Experience with power distribution and equipment installation.
• 4 year degree in Engineering or Engineering Technology

Corporate Project Engineer Requirements:

• Must be able to work project-related overtime, including periodic after-hours support.
• Must have excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Must have proficiency in project management and engineering software tools, including Smartsheet, AutoCAD, and Microsoft Office products, or the willingness to learn these tools.
• Must be able to travel, both domestic (approximately 30%) and international (infrequent).
• 2 years of industrial and/or engineering experience related to project management

Corporate Senior Project Engineer Requirements:

• Must meet all requirements of a Project Engineer II
• 4-year engineering or engineering technology degree and 3-5 years of industrial and/or engineering experience related to project management OR 5 years equivalent experience
• Minimum of 2 years as a Project Engineer
• Must have demonstrated proficiency in project management, including but not limited to development of designs and specifications, scheduling, estimating, installation, and project administration.

Corporate Engineer Requirements:

• Must meet all requirements of a Project Engineer and Senior Project Engineer
• 4-year engineering or engineering technology degree and 5-7 years of industrial and/or engineering experience related to project management OR equivalent experience
• Minimum of 2 years as a Senior Project Engineer
• Demonstrated success with managing multiple large projects simultaneously

Shaw Industries is an equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.