Electrical Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description:

Miller Electric , an ITW company and a leader in the welding industry, is looking for an Electrical Engineer to join our Precision Welding Solutions division. In this role, you'll be crucial in supporting our existing product portfolio, enhancing customer experience, and driving operational excellence initiatives.

You'll have the opportunity to collaborate with diverse cross-functional engineering teams (electrical, software, mechanical, and welding), operations, manufacturing, customer support, and marketing. If you're ready to make a significant impact and help us maintain our reputable industry-leading position, we encourage you to apply! This is an onsite position located in Appleton, WI.

What You'll Do:

As an Electrical Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

Product Sustaining & Improvement: Provide expert electrical engineering support for existing welding products, ensuring their continued performance and reliability.

Design & Development: Lead and contribute to the design, development, and prototyping of system architectures, schematics, and PCB layouts. You'll also be responsible for testing and iterating designs to optimize performance.

Circuit Analysis & Optimization: Conduct in-depth circuit analysis, including tolerance stack-up, thermal evaluation, and signal integrity to ensure robust and reliable designs.

Advanced Troubleshooting & Root Cause Analysis : Perform system and component-level diagnostics, conduct thorough failure analysis, provide critical support to field/application teams, and deliver comprehensive resolution reports.

Strategic Component Selection: Drive component selection based on performance requirements, reliability, cost, availability, and long-term product lifecycle planning.

Comprehensive Testing & Compliance: Develop and implement rigorous test procedures. Provide guidance and execute functional, reliability, and third-party compliance testing (UL/CSA/CE).

What Makes You a Great Fit:

We're looking for a highly motivated and skilled individual with:

Self-Motivation & Accountability: A proactive, growth-oriented mindset, taking ownership of project deliverables and adept at adapting to challenges.

Critical Thinking & Decisiveness: The ability to make sound, logical decisions, knowing when to act independently and when to collaborate for optimal outcomes.

Curiosity & Continuous Learning: A strong desire to identify new learning areas and readily apply newly gained knowledge and skills to practical applications.

Drive to Excel & Persistence : A results-driven attitude, going the extra mile to overcome obstacles, persevere through challenges, and consistently bring projects to successful resolution.

Exceptional Interpersonal & Communication Skills: Strong emotional intelligence that fosters collaborative relationships and effective partnerships across all levels.

Qualifications We're Looking For:

Education: Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering

Hardware & Software Design Proficiency: Demonstrated expertise in hardware and software design activities, including:

• System architecture definition
• Component selection
• Schematic capture and PCB layout
• Compliance testing and documentation
• Manufacturing support

Simulation Tools: Proficient with circuit modeling and simulation tools.

Communication Hardware: Experience with various communication hardware protocols (e.g., Ethernet, USB, CAN, RS-485).

PCB Expertise: Strong understanding of PCB layout considerations for manufacturability and PCB manufacturing processes.

Regulatory Compliance: Experience designing and testing to 3rd party standards (UL/CSA/CE), with specific knowledge of insulation requirements (materials, creepage, clearance, dielectric strength). Knowledge and experience designing to EMC requirements is preferred.

Power Conversion: Working knowledge of power conversion principles.         

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