Electrical Engineer/Project Manager

To Apply For This PositionWe 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. The Opportunity:Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) seeks a professional, innovative and meticulous individual for our Electrical Engineering Project Manager position located in the Las Angeles area. If you are looking for an opportunity to participate in the success of a fast growing, dynamic, worldwide provider of products and services for the electric power industry then this may be the position for you!

Benefits of Being an Owner: SEL offers competitive salaries and 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; an SEL Scholarship program and an outstanding work environment. Electrical Engineer/Project ManagerResponsibilities: Develop and maintain a high level of technical expertise within the power system industry. Develop and maintain a working knowledge of automation practices, protocols, equipment and software. Develop and maintain a high level of knowledge about SEL equipment and solutions to power system protection and automation needs. Define customer service needs and lead efforts to prepare innovative, elegant and cost-effective methods to meet them using SEL products, services and systems. Be the primary customer contact for a project throughout all phases of the project. Resolve customer concerns and foster customer satisfaction. Prepare and present successful proposals for SEL equipment, services and systems. Negotiate and administer fair and appropriate contracts with customers, subcontractors and equipment suppliers. Manage the schedule, budget and technical quality of automation and protection projects providing services and systems to internal and external clients. Perform customer training, internal training, event report analysis, product test schemes, protection scheme design and relay coordination services. Create, follow and improve Protection and Automation Services processes. Provide support for other SEL engineering services, marketing, sales, application engineering and development activities.Qualifications: Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering Registered Professional Engineer with the ability to obtain a PE license in the state of California Minimum five years relevant experience with electrical power systems, practices and philosophies Proven project management skills Good knowledge of protective relay applications Excellent technical training, speaking and writing skills Experience with load flow and short circuit studies Willing to travel Ability to work independently, accepting complete ownership of assigned responsibilities Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities Ability to work cooperatively in a team environment Background check results satisfactory to SEL Negative drug test result(s)Preferred Qualifications: Experience supervising, training, and mentoring technical professionals Electric utility, consulting or integrator experience MSEE or MBA An Award Winning CompanySchweitzer 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 company’s 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.

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