Siemens Electrical Designer / Drafter 

United States, North Carolina 

995632831

About Smart Infrastructure – Electrification and Automation:

The Electrification and Automation (EA) Business Unit offers the full range of energy distribution systems and solutions for all markets and through all sales channels. We provide reliable power distribution grids of today while investing into our Future Grids portfolio and applications to create the power distribution grid of the future. Our comprehensive portfolio meets the growing technical requirements of todays and tomorrow’s power grid!

Work with engineering project team to create/modify all electrical drawings for customer approval and manufacturing of Medium Voltage switchgear. Typical drawings include:

• One line diagrams
• Panel arrangement
• Nameplate schedule
• Electrical schematics
• Three line drawings
• Wiring diagrams

You’ll make an impact by:

• Analyze one line diagram and control schematic sketches of Siemens MV switchgear products along with associated protection schemes and thus, design appropriate product solutions to meet the customers’ expectations in cost-effective and timely manner.
• Utilize the AUTOCAD/Engineering Base software to prepare drawing packages with a high degree of accuracy.
• Initiate effective quality audits in both technical and procedural aspects to ensure high precision drawings are transferred to manufacturing facility and customer.
• Utilize knowledge of various electrical CAD software to complete project work and drive efficiency with process improvements.
• Be a technical project leader taking full ownership of the overall project design.
• Provide factory support during the manufacturing of respective projects to ensure the final deliverable is true to the customer design.
• Lead efforts to improve team processes and tools to drive up overall team efficiency.

Basic Qualifications:

• Associate degree in the field of Electrical Engineering.
• 7+ years of proven experience working with the design/configuration electrical power distribution products and systems.
• 7+ years of Electrical CAD design/drafting experience in protection & control or engineering.
• Strong working knowledge of standard protection & control technologies used in medium voltage power distribution products with willingness to share this knowledge with others.
• Ability to analyze customer’s technical specifications regarding the application of protection & control systems and apply appropriate product solutions to meet the customers’ expectations in cost-effective and timely manner.
• Ability to read, understand and evaluate electrical schematics to identify errors or potential improvements.
• Interest and experience in leading quality audits in both technical and procedural aspects of electrical drawing packages to drive high precision outputs to manufacturing facility and customer.
• Strong work ethic and willingness to do what it takes to get the job done on time and with high quality.
• Ability to multitask and manage large workloads.
• Strong written, verbal, mathematical, and interpersonal skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor/Master's degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Proven ability to create, convert & modify drawings with AutoCAD Electrical or Engineering Base software.
• Familiarity with ANSI, IEEE, UL and NEMA standards for MV Switchgear.
• Experience with electrical design for medium voltage switchgear especially Siemens Switchgear.
• Experience programming in VBA.
• Experience working with macro creation, modification or revision in AutoCAD or Engineering Base.
• Experience in process improvement of drawing creation and revision.

You’ll benefit from:

• Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to our employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here:
• The pay range for this position is $64,960 - $111,360. The actual wage offered may be lower or higher depending on budget and candidate experience, knowledge, skills, qualifications, and premium geographic location.