Electrical Engineer

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%