Designer I Electrical PSD
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Job Location:
Hampton, VA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
23-10-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
Job Summary:
The Designer I - Electrical role is primarily responsible for actively driving and managing the development of electrical control drawing packages for high-voltage switchgear and power-switchingdevices. Coordinating with sales manufacturing and quality teams as the key technical advisor and product advocate the Designer must be able to identify and provide reliable solutions for all technical issues to ensure complete customer satisfaction through all stages of the engineering process. The Designer must be able to establish and maintain strong relationships throughout the engineering cycle.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Consistently apply basic electrical drafting and design fundamentals and practices to
promptly produce high-quality wiring diagrams and schematics drawing sets pertaining to
control motor and heater circuits for high-voltage switchgear and power switching devices. - Adhere to ANSI IEEE ASTM ASCE AWS CSA and other organizational standards.
- Retain expert level of product knowledge and its application.
- Coordinate with sales vendors customers and other Southern States divisions to ensure
order fulfillment is satisfactory. - Troubleshoot and resolve wiring and field installation difficulties that is consistent with
Southern States mission values and financial objectives in a timely manner. - Issue formal documentation descriptively detailing engineering changes in accordance with
Southern States engineering standard practices and procedures - Produce ongoing status reports for active orders.
- Maintain accurate records pertaining to target accounts opportunities quotes projects
contacts and correspondences within company approved databases. - Identify customer needs and engineering opportunities for future growth.
- Travel to project sites to aide in sales support startup integration and training services as
required. - Perform other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
- Education: Associates Degree in Applied Science with a concentration in Computer Aided
Drafting and Design (CADD) equivalent or five years related experience - Demonstrated AutoCAD experience
- Applied Microsoft Office (Excel Outlook Word) experience
- Fundamental electrical control and protection systems understanding
- Proficient written and oral communication skills
- Motivated with the ability to perform in a team environment
- Punctual business-casual attire and well-groomed
- Available to travel <10%
Preferred Qualifications:
- SolidWorks Electrical experience
- High-voltage switchgear electrical controls and protection systems experience
- Working knowledge of basic electrical tools including multi-meters and basic electrical hand
tools - Project management experience is beneficial
- Hands-on assembly factory or job site experience in controls wiring
- Control cabinet and enclosure design experience is a plus
- Visual Basics Business Central PowerPoint and SharePoint applied knowledge
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Electrical Engineering
- SOC
- System Design
- NEC
- PCB
- CAD
- Signal Processing
- Drafting
- Fpga
- Autocad
- Programmable Logic Controllers
- Revit
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