Electrical Design Engineer

  • Mooresville
  • Dehn Inc.

Applicants must be authorized in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Located onsite: Mooresville, NC

Business Overview:

DEHN Inc. is the USA subsidiary for DEHN SE (ISO 9001/14001 certified). We focus on solutions for lightning and surge-related problems as they apply to the North American market. These solutions include education, technical assistance, system design, risk assessments and site surveys in addition to the product.

Our philosophy is to use best practices from the IEC and our experience globally and apply them to the USA IEEE, UL, and NEC standards. By combining the best technologies and processes from international and domestic markets, DEHN assures the customer will receive the most comprehensive solution tailored to their specific application. Our customers include commercial, communications, energy, electronics, industrial, hospitality, infrastructure, medical, security & defense markets.

Job Overview:

The position is based at the HQ/near the associated manager and serves as a design and drafting resource of the DEHN, Inc. design team in the USA.

The primary duties include creation of 3D CAD models of parts and drawings of building/structures using Sketchup or AutoCAD 3D software from a variety of documents, photograph and earth view inputs for the purpose of providing lightning protection systems.

The position may develop into additional application engineering support for identifying the

correct lightning protection and electrical surge protection products. Extensive training will be provided.

Some travel in USA and Germany for training and for site review may be required, up to 10%.

Job Requirements:

Ability to read blueprints

Ability to create drawings and templates

Versatile, and experienced with SolidWorks, SketchUp, or AutoCAD to create drawings of lightning protection, ground systems, and product installation details

Experience with measuring, drawing components, and assemblies from existing samples

Experienced creating simple, architectural plan view and elevation, view drawings, or electrical/electronic product designs

Experience making bill of material from assembly drawings

Able to build models of structures and PV field earthing grids

Able to create drawings of lightning protection, ground systems and product installation

details

Good communication skills in English, Microsoft office, and Teams. Spanish as a second language is a plus

Good basic electrical systems knowledge of low voltage power distribution and grounding

Surge protection device applications from DEHN product line or competitor line

Experience or knowledge in NFPA 780 Standard, or willing to learn it. LPI certification is a plus

Experience or knowledge of NEC standard, or willing to learn it.

Able to learn DEHNplan, DEHNtool, IEC 62305 design methods, and DEHN LPS product line. Training will be provided but knowledge is a plus

Able to learn XGSlabs Software Modeling of grounding field system. Training will be provided but knowledge is a plus

EEO Statement:

DEHN Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.