Hardware Engineer

Crane NXT - Williston, SC

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Williston, SC

1,001-5,000 employees

Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing

About the position

As our Hardware Engineer, you will provide dedicated electrical engineering expertise for a team focused on delivering cost reduction projects and engineering production support for various CPI product lines. This position will involve concept development and validation, prototype preparation, and design activities to improve quality, value, and cost for CPI products. In addition, the engineer will cooperate with Quality, Production, and Supply Chain departments whenever design engineering support is required.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing and verifying alternate hardware designs and part sourcing opportunities and identify cost reduction opportunities
• Generating schematics and perform detailed circuit analysis to verify design compliance to specific performance targets
• Creating, simulating, prototyping, and implementing value engineering product redesigns
• Managing projects and creating/tracking project plans for PCBA redesign, supplier transfer, cost reductions, and various other support projects
• Developing detailed product design knowledge to provide timely production support and identify potential cost reduction opportunities
• Creating production yield analysis and implementing design improvements to maintain quality
• Participating in design reviews and design related brainstorming events
• Traveling to manufacture, supplier, and customer sites as needed
• Supporting activities within the global CPI Supply Chain Engineering team

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering required
• 2-5 years of experience in electrical engineering and design
• Experience in the design and development of digital and analogue electronics principles and design
• Familiarity with design and biasing of bipolar transistors and MOSFETs in oscillator and closed loop opto control systems
• Able to specify suitable opamp / comparator for specific functions without ever over specifying with cost disadvantage
• Track record in power switching circuits including the specification of suitable power switches and flywheel diodes
• Familiarity with resonant circuits based on opamp and comparitor building blocks
• Some background in motor drive systems, perhaps in choice of brushless dc motors and drivers
• Good awareness of optical and electromagnetic sensors and their functionality
• General awareness of new technologies and their benefits
• Able to use schematic capture (Cadstar, Mentor Graphics)
• Able to demonstrate technical expertise and technical delivery
• Able to develop and manage a sub-project within the broader constraints of the overall project plan
• Innovative and able to convert concepts into reality
• Practical application of electronics design relating to EMC theory
• Able to communicate, take part and contribute in technical discussions with other engineers and senior managers
• Experience with multidisciplinary design teams and awareness of tradeoffs between electrical hardware, software, and mechanical solution approaches
• Ability to perform and intercept tolerance analysis using worst case and statistical methods
• Must be able to work with diverse teams spanning multiple sites as well as be able to work independently
• Up to 10% travel
• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in project management
• Experience in cost reduction initiatives
• Familiarity with global supply chain processes

Benefits

• Flexible work environments
• Defined career growth plans with opportunities to go outside of your 'comfort zone'
• Team building activities that support innovation
• Generous paid time off plus sick and Holiday pay
• Medical, dental & vision insurance plans
• 401K with company contribution
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Discounts for childcare
• Tuition assistance
• Community involvement and volunteering events
• Opportunities to travel and work at global sites