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Senior Electrical Engineer

KZValve, LLC – Greenwood, NE

Summary:

This position provides senior-level electrical engineering support focused on electronic circuit design and analysis, embedded software programming, prototyping, verification testing, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of KZValve products. The Senior Electrical Engineer advances and improves electronics technology, provides technical leadership for projects and team members, and ensures electrical designs are suitable for product integration.

Responsibilities:

• Lead or support the design, development, prototype fabrication, firmware integration, and verification testing of KZValve products.

• Perform detailed electrical system and subsystem analysis, simulation, circuit and control system design, and hardware/software integration, evaluating design tradeoffs related to performance, reliability, manufacturability, cost, schedule, and customer requirements.

• Lead electrical design reviews, provide technical approval recommendations, and establish and maintain electrical design best practices and standards within assigned areas..

• Conduct software programming, testing, troubleshooting, and debugging for embedded product applications when assigned.

• Provide electrical engineering support for production operations, supplier activities, quality management, and customer issue resolution.

• Serve as project engineer or technical lead for significant electrical design projects, coordinating cross-functional technical activities and developing or reviewing requirements, risk assessments, design justifications, test plans, test reports, and other project documentation.

• Communicate complex technical concepts, design recommendations, emerging opportunities, project risks, and significant issues to employees, management, suppliers, and customers with varying levels of technical expertise.

• Build and maintain strong working knowledge of KZValve products, customer applications, agricultural industry requirements, electronics technologies, communication buses, and competitive technologies.

• Source or specify components and electrical approaches for new or revised products while balancing cost, quality, availability, lead time, and design requirements.

• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to interns, engineering technicians, associate engineers, and engineers through design reviews, troubleshooting support, project participation, and sharing of engineering best practices.

• Identify and implement opportunities to improve product performance, design quality, engineering efficiency, manufacturability, cost, and customer value.

• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements:

• Electrical Engineering degree from a 4-year ABET accredited college or university.

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related electrical engineering experience, an advanced degree with 3 years of experience, a PhD without experience, or equivalent work experience.

• Ability to design and analyze analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits.

• Ability to design, model, and optimize control systems, including feedback and open-loop control systems.

• Demonstrated ability to lead or significantly contribute to complex electrical design projects from concept through validation, release, implementation, or production support.

• Experience with design verification, validation testing, engineering change processes, failure analysis, root cause analysis, and design documentation.

• Strong technical aptitude, critical thinking, problem solving, interpersonal skills, and active learning capability appropriate for the role level.

• Ability to communicate clearly with engineering, production, quality, purchasing, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders as required by assignment scope.

• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office applications and able to create clear technical documentation.

Preferred:

• Familiarity with agricultural industry equipment and OEM driven development.

• Experience developing in C using IAR Workbench or comparable embedded development tools.

• Experience with PCBA design software such as Altium or Fusion 360.

• Experience with microprocessor integration, CAN bus protocols, brushed DC motor systems, and global component sourcing.

• Experience using simulation, design review methods, DFMEA, or similar structured engineering tools.

Position Details:

• Full-Time, exempt position

• Preferred core hours to be 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m, M-F. (Flexible / Hybrid Scheduling Possible)

• Travel: Less than 5%

• Position reports to the Engineering Manager

Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?

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