Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) seeks a professional, innovative and detailed individual for our Hardware Engineer position. If you are looking for an opportunity to work with industry experts while participating in developing cutting edge products then this may be the position for you!

SEL is located in Eastern Washington where you'll enjoy an unmatched quality of life. Enjoy the smaller town life: country space, freedom from traffic, easy access to recreational activities in nearby mountains, rivers, and forests, as well as great schools and universities.

Hardware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participate in preparation of system level specifications. Assist in the development of hardware specifications.
  
• Analyze, design, and develop conventional analog and digital circuits as required. Demonstrate and document product and circuit robustness using computer simulations, conventional analysis and standard testing methodologies.
• Conduct design reviews.
  
• Design, implement, and document firmware or software required for product development.
  
• Write and analyze test plans, conduct design tests and evaluate test results.
  
• Prepare and maintain product documentation, including data sheets, instruction manuals, project notebooks, design and test documentation.
  
• Provide and maintain accurate product cost estimates. Provide basic labor estimates. Generate and maintain accurate Bills of Material.
  
• Provide and maintain accurate project plans. Manages and/or leads hardware projects of moderate complexity. Coordinate engineering activities with purchasing and manufacturing. Directs the efforts of associate engineers and technicians.
  
• Participate in industry technical meetings, seminars, and conferences.
  
• Follow and improve R & D processes.

Qualifications:

• B.S. and/or M.S. in Electrical Engineering
  
• Typically with 4 - 8 years of combined experience in at least 2 of the following areas:
  
  analog circuit design
  
  digital design with microprocessors
  
  power supply design
• Strong writing, documentation, and speaking skills
  
• Working knowledge of project management processes and procedures
  
• Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities
  
• Ability to work cooperatively in team environment
  
• Background check results satisfactory to SEL
  
• Negative drug test result(s)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of one or more of the following:
  
  industrial controls
  
  3-phase and electric power systems
  
  electric utility telecommunications
• Leadership experience or training

An Award Winning Company

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) has a reputation for quality, reliability, integrity, and service, which has enabled us to expand both within the electric utility market and into industrial, international, and OEM markets.

In an independent survey conducted by Newton-Evans Research Company, SEL ranks first in seven categories of performance including technology, features, security against hackers, web/internet information ability, technical service and support, price, and relay setting PC software. SEL provides an excellent work environment and is the recipient of several awards, including one of the 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Washington State (Puget Sound Business Journal, 1999 2003), Most Innovative Supplier (Energex, 2002), "Entrepreneur of the Year" (Ernst & Young, 2000), and the Washington State Quality Achievement Award (WSQA).

Apply Your Talent. Make a Difference. Enjoy the Rewards.

Are you ready to be part of a highly motivated and well-equipped team? Are you a quick learner who likes new challenges? If so, then you are ready to join us at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories.

Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer III delivered the first commercial digital protective relay in 1984. Under his technical, managerial, and fiscal leadership, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories has expanded to over 1000 employees. Ed understands and supports the need for investing in employees. In return, he expects that we hire only the best, most highly motivated team members, and that we deliver simple, reliable, and cost-effective products and solutions.

Our products and solutions must be simple and reliable because they protect the largest, most complicated machine on earth: the electric power grid. Blackouts in the U.S. and Canada remind us that reliable electric power is crucial to our society. SEL provides systems, services, and products for the protection, monitoring, control, automation, and metering of utility and industrial electric systems worldwide.

Our company and our products exist to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical. That purpose has made SEL very successful, and the company is managed with sound fiscal judgment and that purpose in mind. Profits are reinvested to fuel the companys growth.

In addition to offering a variety of challenges in a supportive, stable environment, SEL shares its success with employees by giving them stock in the company. All employees earn stock at the same rate. And because only employees can own SEL stock, the stock price is not subject to market volatility. Even when the stock market value has plunged, SEL stock consistently increased in value.

If you are ready for the challenge and benefits of being part of the SEL team, and you meet the requirements listed above, please apply online at www.selinc.com/careers.

*Benefits: SEL has an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, and vision for employees and their entire family; long-term disability and life insurance; education assistance programs; a very generous employee stock ownership plan; 401K; flexible benefit account; and an outstanding work environment.

To Apply For This Position:

We ask all candidates to submit their resume through our website at www.selinc.com/careers. If your qualifications and experience match any of our current openings, please submit your resume for that position so that you may be considered immediately.

SEL is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and a Drug Free Workplace.