Principal Electrical Engineer for Industrial Product Development
Skyven Technologies, United States
Job Description
About Skyven
At Skyven Technologies, we have developed a revolutionary heat pump technology to decarbonize industrial heat. We sell this technology through an innovative Energy-as-a-Service model that saves our customers money with no capital outlay. We are hiring a Senior or Principal Electrical engineer to be part of the Product Development team. This is an opportunity to make a real impact on the world and be well-compensated for it.
Industrial heat is responsible for roughly 20% of global CO2 emissions. That’s roughly equivalent to emissions generated by all transportation (including land, sea, and air) and is a compelling business opportunity it will take an estimated $3.7 trillion in capital investment to decarbonize the sector by 2050. Skyven Technologies has proprietary technology, an excellent customer base, and is positioned at the cutting edge of industrial heat decarbonization.
About the Role
In this role, initially you’ll be transforming high-level solution architecture components and material specifications into completely detailed technical specifications for our supply chain and design engineers to perform sourcing and design activities. Then, you’ll be working alongside the rest of our experienced design engineers to create execution methods that productize the detailed engineering deliverables enabling delivery of steam generating heat pump technology to a wide range of applications in our customer pipeline. You would be joining our new product development team at the beginning of the detailed engineering phase of the product development lifecycle and would experience a high-energy environment that will rapidly progress through detailed engineering and into pre-manufacturing.
Responsibilities
- Create preliminary components technical specifications for a variety of electrical and electromechanical components. Component scope includes but is not limited to electric motors and VFDs in the range of single hp up to 4000hp, actuators for large and small bore piping systems, control system instrumentation, flowmeters, switchgear, enclosures and 15kv class transformers.
- Finalize component and material specifications based on supplier technical feedback.
- Respond to request-for-information (RFI) from third-party suppliers and internal teams.
- Create specifications for commodity material to be used in fabrication or construction. This would include but is not limited to wires, cables, conduit, and cable trays.
- Work with the Solutions Architecture and sourcing teams to resolve technical gaps in specifications.
- Identify gaps in engineering specification plan and propose new specifications or refinements to resolve those gaps.
- Develop documentation related to specification and detailed design processes to create standard operating procedures (SOP).
- Identify and apply relevant national, state, and local electrical codes to specification and design engineering work.
- Create internal tools and methodology to enable scalable delivery for the creation of detailed design engineering deliverables.
- Create detailed design deliverables via CAD and other methods.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or related subspecialty of Engineering or equivalent experience.
- 7 to 15 years of post-graduate work experience in the detailed engineering of projects or products in the industrial or very large commercial space.
- Must have a minimum of 7 years of work experience performing detailed engineering of power systems up to 15kV class equipment with substantial demonstrated past project experience with 480V and 4160V equipment and distribution on systems typically between 2MW and 20MW power input.
- In addition to electrical engineering experience described above must have demonstrated design experience in at least ONE additional domain of mechanical engineering, controls hardware engineering, PLC software engineering using FBD and ST, steel structural engineering, or a relevant engineering subspeciality.
- Able to think and operate in a framework where engineering tools and deliverables are created in a productized mindset that maximizes reuse and minimize engineering manhours after initial creation.
- Able to create, review, and critique electrical drawings and diagrams (SLD, riser, wiring, etc.) for low and medium voltage power and control systems.
- Able to rapidly transform high level solution architecture process engineering requirements into technical specification documents for components and materials detailed and robust enough to enable sourcing to produce request for quote (RFQ) packages and third-party vendors to determine if they can meet Skyven’s technical requirements in detail.
- Excels at communicating technical and commercial details across a