Key skills
Leadership
About this role
Role Overview
- Designs, validates, and brings new products and technologies to market
- Lead and assist teams in addressing difficult and complex technical challenges by stimulating cooperation and joint effort
- Matches new technologies to market needs and opportunities resulting in substantial business growth
- Lead innovation teams in developing patents and creating technical papers for publication.
- Develop new techniques, practices and processes utilizing new and existing technologies to enhance organizational performance.
- Collaborates with internal engineering teams to drive DFx.
- Ventures into new specialized or leading-edge technology across one or business groups that provides competitive advantage.
- Serve as an expert resource within the organization to guide and mentor engineering staff including reviewing designs and providing feedback, proactively identifying risk and proposing mitigations/contingencies, proposing ideas/options to improve project speed/timeliness, etc.
- Support the leadership team with respect to technical strategy
- Support and represent the organization as an industry leader in areas of personal and team specializations
- Participate in the transfer and optimization of technology and ideas across one or more business groups
- Specifies precise new product and technology functional requirements; designs, tests and integrates the most complex components to produce final designs; and evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost (including cost/benefit analysis), reliability (risk analysis), and safety.
- Collaborates cross-functionally to optimize profitability by keeping development and product costs minimized while still delivering on key product objectives; pro-actively analyzes tradeoffs and presents options as appropriate
- Acts as a resource to mentor and teach less experienced engineers
- Travel to other Generac and key supplier/partner facilities as necessary
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering or related discipline
- 10+ years of relevant work experience in power electronics or related industry
- Designed and brought products through high volume manufacturing (100,000 units / year)
- Successfully launched a product that was optimized for cost
- Master’s Degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering or directly related discipline (Preferred)
- 7-10+ years of demonstrated success as a technical leader in power electronics design or related industry strongly preferred;
- Ability to perform detail-oriented work with a high degree of accuracy on multiple, complex projects simultaneously
- Broad design experience with a variety of electronics including power electronics, engine controls, displays, connectivity modules, etc.
- Strong electrical engineering background.
- In-depth experience in new product design and development
- Ability to conduct complex analyses of communications reliability, thermal management/performance, mechanical packaging design, environmental impacts/performance, etc.
- Familiar with standards for residential renewable energy systems.
- Published papers and or holder of one or more patents
- Ability to translate technical information to all audiences
- Demonstrated ability to apply engineering knowledge and experience to improve products, services and processes and mentor other engineers in design, development, risk identification, troubleshooting, issue resolution, innovation, etc.
- Experience in test & validation plan and procedure development and execution including multiple methods (HIL/SIL, bench component and/or system testing, fault injection methods, etc.)
- Experience in simulation and model-based design best practices
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision plans
- life
- long-term disability
- flexible spending and health savings accounts
- accrued paid time off
- eight paid holidays
- 401(k) retirement benefits