Electrical Engineer
Employer not yet confirmed · Greenville, South Carolina, United States
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Serve as the lead Electrical Engineer (EE) on assigned projects from pre-sales to final commissioning stage.
- Create designs which meet or exceed Vertiv quality requirements and fall within budgetary requirements.
- Design optimal UPS power systems and/or DC Power Systems based on customer equipment/IT loads.
- Design of switchgear configurations and control schemes, utilizing PLCs and/or relays, to accomplish automated transfer operations.
- Design of ground fault protective schemes, including those involving multiple sources.
- Generation of bills of material, and modification of standard assemblies as required to satisfy the application.
- Familiarity with Modbus and TCP/IP communications protocols, and RS-485 and Ethernet interfaces.
- Manage and Support contracted integration companies to provide a detailed Schematic Design(SD), Detail Design(DD) and Construction Drawing(CD) narrative for electrical design aspects of the solution
- Collaborate with other disciplines and external partners – General contractors or architects to create a construction document set.
- Work with Vertiv’s business units, Business Partners and preferred vendors to specify the appropriate electrical equipment such as UPS, Switchgear, Generator, DC power system, etc.
- Provide detail sizing analysis of Standby Emergency generators based on type of loads – capacitance, inductance, motor loads, high/low inertia loads, UPS, lighting, etc.
- Work with local agencies having jurisdiction to ensure compliance with federal, state and municipal requirements and building codes.
- Review and approve electrical product submittals.
- Define project scope and provide technical support for information requests prior to and during construction phases.
- Quality control during integration of electrical systems
- Support for all on site integration support
- Define project scope and provide technical support for information requests prior to and during construction phases.
- Work with commissioning teams to properly test and validate installation, operation and performance of electrical systems.
- Travel to sites for site review and work with onsite field engineers, as well as provide engineering evaluations, electrical systems audits and start-up as needed.
- Offer creative, out of the box solutions to the customer.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or possesses acceptable experience and subject knowledge
- Professional engineering (PE) License – optional
- Minimum 4 years of Electrical Engineering experience
- Knowledge of low voltage switchboard / switchgear design, installation, and use
- Knowledge of local, state, & federal codes governing the installation and use of low voltage switchboards/switchgear.
- Working knowledge in AutoDesk suite of Engineering software including AutoCAD and Revit
- Proven experience with Microsoft Office Applications
- Experience reading and interpreting electrical construction drawings and equipment specifications
- Understanding of the current version of the National Electrical Code
- Interpreting customer specification requirements.
- Have the ability to research new designs, technologies and construction methods for data center equipment and facilities
- Ability to think outside the box to find creative and innovative solutions to reduce costs with no impact on quality, reliability or maintainability.
- Must possess excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Must be detail oriented.
- Proven leadership and problem solving skills.
- Proven Project Management skills
PHYSICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS
- No special Physical or Environmental requirements
TIME TRAVEL REQUIRED
- 5% - 10%
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