Electrical Design Engineer
$28,800–$28,800 year
On-siteOmaha, Nebraska, United States or Valley, Nebraska, United States
Job Summary
Lead new product development for small projects, designing and developing embedded control systems, user interfaces, and remote communication products. Conduct technical design reviews, provide design inputs and direction, and maintain engineering best practice procedures and validation standards. Collaborate with customers, field personnel, and internal departments to ensure efficient workflows, while documenting detailed project requirements and troubleshooting embedded systems. This role reports to the Electrical Engineering Development Manager and may require up to 10% domestic or international travel. Valmont is a Fortune 1000 company advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to create a sustainable future.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering
- 5+ years relevant experience
- Hardware design experience for control panels with embedded control system, remote communications and high voltage power
- Proficient troubleshooting capabilities for analog, digital, communications and power circuits
- Extensive experience using PLM system preferably Windchill
- Ability to read firmware application code for purposes of trouble shooting embedded systems
- Knowledge of communication standards for TCP, USB, RS-232, RS-485 and Wi-Fi
- Familiarity with Test Equipment such as emulators, oscilloscopes, multimeters, spectrum analyzer, RF communications monitor, Ethernet sniffer, and serial protocol analyzer
- Basic understanding of electrical codes for UL, CE, NEC and IEC
- Technical leadership of an electrical engineering project
- Expert level experience writing hardware requirements for new products
- Ability to accurately estimate effort required for design tasks
- Ability to resolve complex problems and large challenges
- Ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with internal customers and peers
- Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft tools including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams
- Must be able to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
Desired Qualifications
- Master's Degree Electrical or Computer Engineering from an ABET accredited school
- 5+ years of technology-based product development experience using the Agile project management methodology
- Working knowledge of National Instruments hardware and LabView software
- Experience in designing or working knowledge of irrigation machines
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