Avail Infrastructure Solutions

Electrical Engineer

nVent - Kewanee, IL - Full Time







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Critical Power Solutions provides a full range of low voltage solutions to connect, protect, control, and measure a wide range of electrical applications. Our switchboards, switchgear, remote power panels (RPPs), and power distribution units (PDUs) increase the reliability and capability of our customers’ facilities across all major industries.

JOB SUMMARY
Our teams are innovative in their mission to build and service the equipment that powers infrastructure worldwide. Our mission is to bring innovation to life every day with visionaries like you.

As an Electrical Engineer, you will be responsible for developing detailed electrical designs for low and medium voltage switchgear and controls for systems that control multiple generators and parallel to one or more utility sources. Your work will play a key role in ensuring precise design solutions that align with manufacturing and engineering standards.

Reporting directly to the Engineering Manager, this position is based on site in Kewanee, IL.

WHAT WE OFFER

  • Exciting Projects: Work on a variety of challenging and impactful projects.
  • Career Growth: Opportunities to enhance your skills and advance your career through hands-on experience and professional development.
  • Collaborative Environment: Join a team that values innovation, teamwork, and quality.
  • Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, health insurance including medical, dental, and vision, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability insurance, life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan with employer-matching contributions, a bonus incentive plan, paid time off (vacation and personal) and work-life balance.
  • Compensation: $72,500 - $92,000/annually (based on skill level, education, and/or experience).

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
  • Education: Minimum of bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or similar.
  • Experience: 2 to 4 years of experience required. Or equivalent combination of education and experience. 
  • Skills: CAD tools and AutoCAD Electrical experience required.  

WHAT YOU’LL DO
  • Interpret project write-ups, customer specifications, electrical drawings and correspondence.
  • Create AC and DC schematics, component layouts, wiring diagrams, and one-line diagrams for project submittals, fabrication and As-built’s drawings.
  • Electrical components downselection and bill of material development.
  • Design and implement power system control schemes including switchgear transfer control, load management control, generator control, microgrid control and SCADA system development.
  • Ensure designs comply with applicable codes, NFPA, NEC, UL, and suggests improvements when possible.
  • Provide engineering/technical support to manufacturing, test, and product support.  


The Electrical Products Group was recently purchased from Avail Infrastructure Solutions by nVent Electric plc (“nVent”) and consists of three business units, Enclosure Systems, Switchgear Systems and Bus Systems. As a part of nVent, the Electrical Products Group is a leading provider of infrastructure solutions, designed to help ensure safe and reliable electrical operations primarily in the infrastructure vertical, including power utilities and data centers.

We are more than a workforce – we are a force at work. We take pride in our craft and come together to ensure our pieces are all part of a bigger impactful picture – creating and servicing the infrastructure that powers the world!

We are an equal employment opportunity employer committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, marital status, military status, nor any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

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