The Human Energy of S&C
Integrity, enthusiasm, sustained energy. These are the traits that S&C has always looked for and found when seeking people to join our 100% employee-owned team. S&C supports these qualities with a strong package of pay and benefits, excellent education and training programs, a challenging work environment, and broad opportunities for advancement.
Location: Alameda
Address of Location: 1135 Atlantic Ave, CA, Alameda 94501
Education Requirements: Bachelor's Required
Relevant Work Experience Requirements: 6 to 10 Years
JOB SUMMARY
S&C is the innovative leader in switching, protection, and control systems for the electric power industry. We are very well-established, having provided products for the electric power industry since 1911, and we are also pioneering today's sophisticated smart-grid products. S&C's Applied Grid Solutions group is responsible for product development, product quality, product operations support, and product issue resolution. The Electronic Hardware group within Applied Grid Solutions is responsible for producing hardware electronic designs with high reliability.
In this position, you will report to the Manager-Electronics Hardware. This position is based in Alameda, CA.
The work associated with the position includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Design, Simulate and Troubleshoot Digital & Mixed signal electronic circuits
- PCB board layout design of mixed signal hardware platforms
- Create Schematics & Update Schematics with selected components using standard CAD tools. Prefer Cadence tools
- Write Functional specifications and documentation of digital hardware designs (technical content generation)
- Create Test plans, execute digital hardware testing & generate detail test results
- Design of Production testing and help in test fixture development
- Design for High Reliability
- Occasional travel up to one week is required
To select this job as one of interest to you, at a minimum, you must have the following:
- BS degree in Electrical Engineering with 6 plus years' Industrial experience required. MS degree in Electrical Engineering preferred
- Proficient in design of digital circuits as well as embedded systems hardware design using Digital Signal processors (Prefer TI), Microcontrollers (Prefer ARM) and FPGAs.
- Experience with high speed digital design & FPGA design flow
- Proficiency with computer programming languages like C, Verilog etc. and with Mathematical analysis tools like MATLAB, Mathcad, and Excel with Analysis Tool Pak
- Proficiency with lab instrumentation (Scopes, DMM, Logic analyzers, Network Analyzer etc.)
- Proficiency in use with Standard interfaces like SPI, I2C, RS232, USB, Ethernet, Bluetooth, ZigBee, etc.
- Should have worked in a R&D environment
- Should be flexible to do design, simulate, test and validate complex mixed signal boards.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Must be self-motivated, well organized, able to work in a group setting and productive with minimum supervision
Relevant Experience Required:
Six plus years' industrial experience in designing digital circuits as well as embedded systems hardware design.
Major Physical Demands:
- STANDING - Occasional standing for work on complete control assemblies
- LIFTING - Occasional lifting of controls and test equipment, less than 50 pounds
- WALKING - Occassional walking throughout the facility
- CARRYING - Occassional carrying of equipment
- PUSHING - Infrequent pushing of objects, possibly related to rearrangement of work area
- PULLING - Infrequent pushing of objects, possibly related to rearrangement of work area
- BENDING - Occassional bending to access tools or equipment
- REACHING - Infrequent reaching
- HANDLING - Frequent handling of parts or tools
- OTHER - Office environment with frequent use of computer, keyboard and mouse.
Number of Openings: 1.00
Employment Status: Exempt
Employment Classification: Full Time
Shift: 1
Core Working Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
S&C Electric Company is a global provider of equipment and services for electric power systems. Founded in 1911, the Chicago-based company designs and manufactures switching and protection products for electric power transmission and distribution.
S&C's products help deliver electric power efficiently and reliably. Some are used to switch circuits. Others minimize damage to equipment in the event of a fault or reduce the area of an outage by automatically rerouting power flow; S&C's sophisticated power-quality products can deliver uninterrupted power for an entire facility, for crucial process industries.
In addition, S&C offers a wide range of engineering, laboratory, and testing services for electric utilities and commercial, industrial, and institutional power systems.
S&C provides solutions for customers worldwide. The company has engineering offices and manufacturing facilities in Chicago, Illinois; Franklin, Wisconsin; Alameda, California; Duvall, Washington; Rockville, Maryland; and Orlando, Florida. S&C subsidiaries operate in Toronto, Canada; Curitiba, Brazil; Mexico City and Aguascalientes, Mexico; Wales, United Kingdom; South Yarra, Australia; and Suzhou, China.
Thank you for your interest in S&C Electric Company. S&C has a proud and longstanding tradition of providing equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or marital status. Further, S&C is committed to taking affirmative action to ensure that qualified females, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities can pursue equal employment opportunities. For information regarding equal employment opportunity, please see www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf
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S & C Electric Company (Headquarters)
6601 North Ridge Boulevard
Chicago
Illinois United States
www.sandc.com
