Job Description

The Senior Electrical Engineer is responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of electrical control panels for industrial chiller systems. This role encompasses the entire product lifecycle, including New Product Development (NPD) and Sustaining Engineering for existing production lines. Key duties include updating technical drawings, providing expert-level support to field service teams, and overseeing comprehensive electrical testing within a laboratory environment.

Serving as a critical technical link between engineering design, factory production, and field performance, this is an onsite position based at the Carrier-Charlotte facility located at 9701 Old Statesville Road, Charlotte, NC 28269.

Role Purpose

• New Product Development.
• Sustain Engineering for existing products.

• Contribute to next generation of chiller designs and technology.
• Electrical engineering for control and power electronic integration into chiller products.

Role Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product management, software, chiller systems and compression engineering to define controls and motor controller requirements.
• Work with supply chain to identify suppliers to produce our control and motor controls solutions.
• Provide oversight of our control and motor control integration and production.
• Ensure code compliance is maintained.
• Draft and refine complex electrical schematics to power and control chiller units.
• Identify and resolve production line issues by updating engineering drawings and specifications.
• Providing technical guidance to Field Service Engineers and technicians to address complex electrical queries from the field.
• Conduct and support lab-based testing to validate electrical components and system performance.
• Collaborate with manufacturing teams to ensure design intent is maintained throughout the build process.
• Design and develop electrical panels and control systems for chiller platforms.
• Execute sustaining engineering initiatives, including drawing updates and design improvements for active products.
• Support field service operations by acting as a subject matter expert for electrical troubleshooting.
• Manage laboratory testing and validation processes for electrical systems and components.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 4+ years of experience in control panel design and layout, electrical component sizing and application.
• 4+ years of experience in ensuring Code compliance is maintained.
• Able and willing to travel up to 20% domestically to support project requirements and site visits.

Preferred Qualifications

• HVAC experience.
• Experience in design and/or integration of variable frequency power electronics.
• High voltage experience
• Lab testing experience.
• DFMEA analysis.
• Experience in design and/or integration of variable frequency power electronics.