Product Engineer - Transmission Products

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 Product Engineer for the transmision protection product line to manage and support the development efforts of an innovative industry leading product line. If you are an engineer with demonstrated experience in the application and development of transmission systems and have successfully applied and designed transmission systems, we invite you to join our 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 problems. With this continued growth, SEL has continued to invest in Marketing, Research and Development, which has led to this new and exciting employment opportunity.Product Engineer ? Transmission Products Responsibilities: Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of specific product line(s), product applications, competition, and markets.Analyze competitor products and prepare technical product comparison reports. Serve as primary technical contact to sales, marketing, operations, and others as required for in-service product support.
Conduct life cycle planning for product line(s) and specific products, including enhancements and obsolescence, with minimal supervision.
Manage parts, upgrades, conversions, and accessories for respective products.
Participate in specifying product requirements, working closely with Product Managers to ensure product features and functionality meet the customer/market needs
Work with Product Engineering and Marketing to prioritize development activities to meet customer needs while accomplishing objectives.
Prepare product documentation including data sheets, flyers, release notes and service bulletins.Qualifications: B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Minimum 2 years working knowledge of electric power or industrial system integration and automation practices and philosophies.
Minimum 2 years technical marketing experience
Excellent technical and marketing presentation and writing 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 environmentPreferred Qualifications:Project management and/or project technical leadership
Experience with electric utility relays and telecommunicationsSpecifying graphical user interfaceAn 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.