Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) seeks a Marketing Engineer who have a unique blend of business, marketing and technical savvy. Successful candidates have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and enjoy finding innovative solutions to solve customers problems. If you are an engineer with demonstrated experience in automation and integration and are interested in applying new technologies to automate and control electric power systems and industrial plants worldwide, we invite you to join our technical team.

Since our incorporation in 1982, SEL has continued to grow and expand our products and services to help our customers solve their power system and industrial plant problems. With this continued growth, SEL has continued to invest in Marketing, Research and Development, which has led to these new and exciting employment opportunity. Positions are available in Pullman WA.

Marketing Engineer Automation & Integration

Responsibilities:

• Determine new product requirements and write product specifications
  
• Develop and maintain expertise in automation and integration practices
  
• Determine opportunities to apply new technology to the automation, monitoring, and control of electric power systems and industrial processes.
  
• Understand electric utility and industrial markets, SEL customers, SEL sales force, and competitors
  
• Promote SEL products and technologies by educating customers, sales force, field engineers, and customer service representatives
  
• Write and deliver presentations; write marketing collateral such as flyers, datasheets, advertisments and technical papers
  
• Represent SEL at industry technical tradeshows, conferences and standards committees
  
• Work with product group manager to plan product life cycle. Define product features, positioning, pricing, and sales forecasts
  
• Work with other departments on project and product related tasks

Qualifications:

• B.S. in Electrical or Computer Engineering
  
• Working knowledge of of utility or industrial plant integration and automation.
  
• Excellent technical writing, speaking, and presentation skills
  
• Knowledge of product life cycle planning and market positioning
  
• Willing to travel up to 25%
  
• Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities
  
• Ability to work cooperatively in a team environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems
  
• Experience in utility or industrial power systems plant operation
  
• Working knowledge of electric power systems and power protection equipment
  
• Working knowledge of utility or industrial protective relaying
  
• Product marketing experience
  
• Knowledge of product life cycle planning

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 all regular full-time 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.