Join our engineering team and play a critical role in sustaining, improving, and modernizing the PowerLink Intelligent Lighting Panelboards platform. As the technical owner of a complex multi-technology product ecosystem, you will drive product integrity, reliability, cybersecurity, manufacturability, and lifecycle continuity while supporting innovation and future platform enhancements.
What will you do? - Own and lead continuous engineering activities for the released PowerLink product portfolio, ensuring product safety, reliability, quality, compliance, and customer satisfaction.
- Lead the resolution of complex technical issues involving hardware, firmware, software, communications, manufacturing, suppliers, and field applications.
- Drive system-level integration across panelboards, intelligent controllers, embedded firmware, software applications, communication protocols, power supplies, and smart breaker technologies.
- Conduct root cause investigations, implement corrective and preventive actions, and validate solutions through structured engineering methodologies.
- Lead engineering change management activities, ensuring proper validation, documentation, configuration control, and release readiness.
- Support product modernization initiatives, including controller upgrades, intelligent load management, advanced protection technologies, and connected building solutions.
- Partner with Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Certification, Customer Care, Software, Firmware, Electronics, and Product Management teams to support business continuity and product evolution.
- Develop and execute verification and validation strategies that ensure compliance, cybersecurity, reliability, and performance requirements are achieved.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to knowledge sharing, documentation, and continuous improvement efforts across the organization.
What are the key skills we are looking for? - Multi-disciplinary systems engineering and product integration expertise.
- Strong requirements management and systems thinking capabilities.
- Advanced problem-solving and root cause analysis skills.
- Verification, validation, and technical risk assessment experience.
- Product configuration management and engineering change control expertise.
- Knowledge of low-voltage electrical products, panelboards, circuit breakers, and building automation systems.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and business stakeholders.
- Strong collaboration and influencing skills within cross-functional and matrix organizations.
- Understanding of cybersecurity principles, compliance requirements, and product lifecycle management.
What qualifications will make you successful? - Experience supporting integrated electrical or electromechanical products that combine hardware, firmware, software, communications, and control systems.
- Proven ability to lead complex technical investigations and lifecycle decisions across multiple engineering disciplines.
- Experience with validation planning, system testing, technical documentation, and manufacturing support.
- Knowledge of communication protocols such as Ethernet, Modbus, BACnet, or similar industrial networking technologies.
- Familiarity with product safety, certification requirements, cybersecurity, DFMEA, design reviews, and risk assessment methodologies.
- Ability to influence decisions and drive alignment across diverse stakeholder groups without direct authority.
- Demonstrated success working in highly technical, customer-focused, and fast-paced environments.
What's in it for me? - Opportunity to own and shape the future of a flagship intelligent power distribution and lighting controls platform.
- Exposure to cutting-edge technologies including smart devices, connected systems, building automation, communications, and cybersecurity.
- Collaboration with global engineering, manufacturing, quality, and product management teams.
- A highly visible technical leadership role with significant autonomy and influence on business-critical decisions.
- Ongoing professional growth through complex engineering challenges, innovation initiatives, and cross-functional leadership opportunities.
- An inclusive environment focused on continuous learning, innovation, and career development.
Requirements - Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Embedded Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Significant experience in product development, continuous engineering, sustaining engineering, or systems engineering roles.
- Experience with low-voltage electrical distribution products, intelligent controls, panelboards, circuit breakers, or related industries preferred.
- Strong understanding of system integration, configuration management, and engineering change processes.
- Experience performing verification, validation, risk assessments, and root cause investigations.
- Knowledge of firmware, software, networking, and embedded control systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and make sound technical decisions in complex environments.
- Experience working in a cross-functional, global, matrixed organization is highly preferred.
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Responsibilities
Join our engineering team and play a critical role in sustaining, improving, and modernizing the PowerLink Intelligent Lighting Panelboards platform. As the technical owner of a complex multi-technology product ecosystem, you will drive product integrity, reliability, cybersecurity, manufacturability, and lifecycle continuity while supporting innovation and future platform enhancements.
What will you do? - Own and lead continuous engineering activities for the released PowerLink product portfolio, ensuring product safety, reliability, quality, compliance, and customer satisfaction.
- Lead the resolution of complex technical issues involving hardware, firmware, software, communications, manufacturing, suppliers, and field applications.
- Drive system-level integration across panelboards, intelligent controllers, embedded firmware, software applications, communication protocols, power supplies, and smart breaker technologies.
- Conduct root cause investigations, implement corrective and preventive actions, and validate solutions through structured engineering methodologies.
- Lead engineering change management activities, ensuring proper validation, documentation, configuration control, and release readiness.
- Support product modernization initiatives, including controller upgrades, intelligent load management, advanced protection technologies, and connected building solutions.
- Partner with Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Certification, Customer Care, Software, Firmware, Electronics, and Product Management teams to support business continuity and product evolution.
- Develop and execute verification and validation strategies that ensure compliance, cybersecurity, reliability, and performance requirements are achieved.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to knowledge sharing, documentation, and continuous improvement efforts across the organization.
What are the key skills we are looking for? - Multi-disciplinary systems engineering and product integration expertise.
- Strong requirements management and systems thinking capabilities.
- Advanced problem-solving and root cause analysis skills.
- Verification, validation, and technical risk assessment experience.
- Product configuration management and engineering change control expertise.
- Knowledge of low-voltage electrical products, panelboards, circuit breakers, and building automation systems.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and business stakeholders.
- Strong collaboration and influencing skills within cross-functional and matrix organizations.
- Understanding of cybersecurity principles, compliance requirements, and product lifecycle management.
What qualifications will make you successful? - Experience supporting integrated electrical or electromechanical products that combine hardware, firmware, software, communications, and control systems.
- Proven ability to lead complex technical investigations and lifecycle decisions across multiple engineering disciplines.
- Experience with validation planning, system testing, technical documentation, and manufacturing support.
- Knowledge of communication protocols such as Ethernet, Modbus, BACnet, or similar industrial networking technologies.
- Familiarity with product safety, certification requirements, cybersecurity, DFMEA, design reviews, and risk assessment methodologies.
- Ability to influence decisions and drive alignment across diverse stakeholder groups without direct authority.
- Demonstrated success working in highly technical, customer-focused, and fast-paced environments.
