Senior Electric Motor Design Engineer

The Role

Are you an experienced engineer with a degree in Mechanical Electrical or Systems Engineering Do you have a minimum of 3 years experience in electric motor design If so we have an exciting opportunity for you. We are an electric motor manufacturing firm looking to immediately hire an experienced Senior Electrical Motor Design Engineer to our growing team.

You will utilize your technical expertise to drive our engineering projects support customer needs and enhance our product offerings. In addition we often have one or two engineering interns working for us to help assist with your duties. You would be responsible for managing those interns.

This is a fulltime officebased position working 7:30 am 4 pm Monday to Friday.

If you are a talented and experienced engineer who thrives in a collaborative environment we encourage you to apply!

Key Responsibilities:

Review & Develop Options for Customer Quote Requests

• Potential customers inquire about our motor offerings by filling out the request for quote (RFQ) form on our website. With this customer provided information we use proprietary internal tools to quickly offer customers the correct motors for their application. This process will allow you to filter through our expansive 600 motor portfolio. One of your first responsibilities will be to analyse current electric motor software design packages available in the market and do a cost benefit analysis on using versus our current proprietary internal tools. (Ansys Maxwell Jmag MotorXP Motorsolve .ect)
• Work with the software team to improve existing calculation tools and develop new calculation tools.
• Release Specialty Motors to Production as needed.
• When a specialty motor starts to get enough sales volume that motor is released from engineering to be manufactured by the production lines. Learn and follow the established standard operating procedure (SOP) to facilitate this transition. This includes creating new motor model numbers and component part numbers creating new AutoCAD drawing files and informing all other affected departments of the changes.
• Obtain a competitors motor outline print and performance specs and be able to design our replacement motor. If needed obtain a motor for in house analysis and testing.
  

Assist Customers with Technical Issues

• Provide assistance to current customers that are experiencing technical issues with our products. This may entail troubleshooting a defective motor or working with a customer to achieve a more desirable performance.
• Maintain Motor Print & Performance Data
• Ensure all prints are current and up to date. Make any revisions or updates as needed.
• Ensure all databases which store motor performance info are current & up to date.
• Golf Car Market Product Line Expansion Review (too include AC Motor & Controller Testing)
• Facilitate Plantwide Product Quality
• Work with production team to ensure product quality. Communicate with production staff and management to ensure supplier material/part compliance with our prints. Our product quality can be highly impacted by the quality of the parts we use. Interact with suppliers to rectify part compliance issues. Since we have an excellent supplier base and many redundant suppliers this responsibility requires minimal effort.
• Analyze Potential Aftermarket Product Line Enhancements
• Develop & work on projects to improve our motor efficiencies. This could be done by reviewing the design the components/materials being used and/or working with our customers to improve their overall system designs.

Market Research and Business Development

• Priority is to review and get revenues from the Pump motor market segment. Review the market segment and develop an action plan to execute to achieve maximum shortterm revenue growth.
• Explore other motor application markets for business growth initiatives. A large focus here will be the addition of AC motor and controllers to our product line.

The Company

We are a small business that designs and manufactures specialty high performance direct current motors and offers a complete line of controllers solenoids and wire kits to go along with them. Our primary market is the golf cart market. We support other markets such as auto hauler electric vehicle utility vehicle neighborhood electric vehicle hunting buggy mining go karts warning sirens agriculture material handling and more.

We are the only DC motor manufacturer left in the USA that services our market segments. We take pride in being the last manufacturer left in the USA by providing a quality product to our customers.

The Benefits

• Base Salary $100000 $120000. (based on experience)
• Bonus 1015% of earned salary (paid after financials are completed after the end of year).
• Signing Bonus $10000 to be paid after 90 days as long as still employed.
• Vacation: 3 Weeks after being with the company 90 days.

The Person

• Must have a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering Systems Engineering or other related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in motor design required. (sizing motors changing stack length bar count field windings Dynamometer testing etc).
• Preferred to have some experience with using electric motor design software packages. (Ex: Ansys Maxwell Motor Solve MotorXP Matlab .ect)
• Ability to effectively communicate with others.
• Ability to work on a team.