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This position is responsible for providing electrical design engineering support and expertise in the definition, design, development, and testing of various products in a custom-designed, engineered-to-order manufacturing environment.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Works as a key part of the engineering design team to establish a technical approach, evaluate risk, and provide engineering solutions that meet or exceed the specified product requirements.
- Analyzes product specifications and performance requirements to determine designs that can be produced by existing manufacturing or processing facilities and methods.
- Prepares design calculations, product or system layouts, detailed drawings, schematics, and purchase orders for special components.
- Modify and refine designs, using working models, to conform with customer specifications, production limitations, or changes in design trends.
- Evaluate the feasibility of design ideas based on appearance, safety, function, serviceability, budget, and production costs/methods.
- Compiles and analyzes operational, test, and research data to establish performance standards for newly designed or modified equipment or product.
- Gathers & analyzes test data to determine if the design meets functional and performance specifications.
- Leads or participates in design reviews to ensure product requirements are met, engineering intent is maintained, and risks are mitigated before release for tooling and production.
- Leads or participates in projects to make improvements (cost-outs, new materials).
- Performs other related duties as assigned by management.
- This job has no supervisory responsibilities.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's Degree (BA) in Electrical Engineering.
- Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering a plus.
- At least 5 to 10 years of electrical design experience on dry-type or oil-filled transformers.
- Experience designing medium voltage transformers, disc units, 6, 12, and 24 pulses transformers, phase shifting transformers, grounding transformers (zig-zag or delta-wye)
- Computer software expertise, including Excel, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, and OPS (or similar electrical design calculation programs).
- Excellent analytic problem-solving skills.
- Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment while juggling multiple competing tasks and demands
- Strong work ethic and professional commitment.
- Superb written and oral communication skills.
Our corporate headquarters in Richmond, Illinois features a total of 86,000 square feet. The facility has thirty-five-foot tall walls that house six cranes, ranging from two to twenty tons, and an interior depressed truck dock that gives us a shipping/receiving area free from poor weather conditions.
Olsun Electrics, an American custom transformer manufacturer, has been designing and manufacturing transformers for almost 70 years. Our high quality power and distribution dry type transformers can be found around the world—from a mega electronic billboard in Times Square and an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico to renowned college campuses and luxurious beach resorts. Our transformer designs are solutions for many diverse applications, including hazardous environments.
We are known for our design flexibility as we have the unique ability not only to produce standard American transformers but also to custom design and build transformers to customers’ precise requirements, including replacement units. Whether you need a standard or specialty American transformer with the most sophisticated electrical needs, we have more power options for you.
Olsun produces dry type transformers from 5kVA through 7,500kVA in voltage classes through 34.5kV. We build all of our transformers to exceed the standards set by NEMA, ANSI, UL and cUL. To assure compliance with applicable standards as well as with any special requirements of our customers we test all transformers several times during the manufacturing process.
Our people, from management and engineering through manufacturing personnel, have a long tradition of experience in designing and manufacturing quality products. Olsun is still family run and employs individual craftsmen and women to make our products in their entirety. Together, our team crafts the most reliable products in the industry.
On October 28, 2019 Olsun Electrics Corporation successfully met WBENC’s standards as a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) and was awarded National Women’s Business Enterprise Certification. The national certification came from the Women’s Business Development Center – Midwest, a certifying partner of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). Certification involved a meticulous process including an in-depth review of the business and site inspection. It is designed to confirm the business is at least 51% owned, operated and controlled by a woman or women.
Olsun Electrics, an American custom transformer manufacturer, has been designing and manufacturing transformers for almost 70 years. Our high quality power and distribution dry type transformers can be found around the world—from a mega electronic billboard in Times Square and an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico to renowned college campuses and luxurious beach resorts. Our transformer designs are solutions for many diverse applications, including hazardous environments.
We are known for our design flexibility as we have the unique ability not only to produce standard American transformers but also to custom design and build transformers to customers’ precise requirements, including replacement units. Whether you need a standard or specialty American transformer with the most sophisticated electrical needs, we have more power options for you.
Olsun produces dry type transformers from 5kVA through 7,500kVA in voltage classes through 34.5kV. We build all of our transformers to exceed the standards set by NEMA, ANSI, UL and cUL. To assure compliance with applicable standards as well as with any special requirements of our customers we test all transformers several times during the manufacturing process.
Our people, from management and engineering through manufacturing personnel, have a long tradition of experience in designing and manufacturing quality products. Olsun is still family run and employs individual craftsmen and women to make our products in their entirety. Together, our team crafts the most reliable products in the industry.
On October 28, 2019 Olsun Electrics Corporation successfully met WBENC’s standards as a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) and was awarded National Women’s Business Enterprise Certification. The national certification came from the Women’s Business Development Center – Midwest, a certifying partner of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). Certification involved a meticulous process including an in-depth review of the business and site inspection. It is designed to confirm the business is at least 51% owned, operated and controlled by a woman or women.
