Senior Engineer - Physics

As an S&C Electric team member, you'll work on projects that have real-world impact. You'll help transform the grid for resilient and reliable power worldwide. S&C has more than a 100-year history of innovation and has been 100% employee-owned since 2012. We continue this legacy as a trusted, forward-thinking leader in the electrical industry. You will advance a safer, more reliable, and more resilient electrical grid. Our products help the grid adapt to severe weather and transition to clean energy. We're big enough to be a respected industry leader but small enough for you to impact our company directly. Our commitment gives you opportunities to impact on and off the job positively.

Join S&C to make an impact on tomorrow's energy challenges and become an employee-owner

Hours

• 8:00 am - 5:00 pm (Mon-Fri) On-Site

Competitive Monthly Pay Period

Benefit Overview

• Competitive complete benefits package
  
  
  
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and Employee Stock ownership plan (KSOP)
  • Tuition Reimbursement, Fitness reimbursement, Paid leaves
  • Dependent care FSA, Basic Life, Transit benefit
  • Annual bonus for individual and company performance
  
  
• Paid vacation and 15 paid holidays, including shutdown in summer and winter
• Referral Bonus program
• PPE provided.
• Career Advancement and Development Opportunities

Join Our Team as Senior Engineer-Physics!

Are you passionate about System Design and Innovation? S&C Electric Company is seeking a dynamic individual to join our Production & Facilities function. As a Senior Engineer-Physics, you'll be crucial in ensuring smooth operations and supporting our diverse team.

The Technology & Breakthrough Innovation (T&BI) team drives the creation of new product solutions for S&C's customers by exploiting new technologies and enabling breakthrough product development for the fast-evolving, intelligent power grid. This role supports the development and production of Vacuum Interrupter technologies using specialized prototyping and testing laboratories that lead to new S&C breakthrough products. As an experienced senior engineer in plasma physics, you will have the opportunity to design and test devices that interrupt powerful short-circuits, collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to design and execute robust experimental test programs, and analyze datasets to optimize practical designs that can be implemented in a manufacturing environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Actively collaborating with a team that conceptualizes, designs, prototypes and tests unique interrupters that meet required switchgear specifications and relevant industry standards.
• Designing and executing experimental test programs to build foundational knowledge about vacuum interrupter physics and drive toward design optimization.
• Establishing R&D objectives, experimental methods and analytical techniques necessary to achieve the interrupter performance that will open new market segments.
• Proposing novel design elements that have the potential for IP protection.
• Support ongoing production of vacuum interrupters by providing first principles input to the sustaining engineering team members.
• Pursuing assignments with a "can do" attitude and sense of urgency.

What you'll Need To Succeed:

Job Requirements (To select this job at a minimum you must have the following):

• MS or higher in experimental physics with 5 years' experience. Ph. D. with post-doctoral or industrial experience is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with plasma diagnostics and spectroscopy.
• Strong capability with advanced software and programming to support plasma experiments, including data acquisition, post-processing and connecting parallel data streams to create a complete empirical representation of the test objects.
• Experience with high voltage equipment or electrical breakdown a plus.
• An aptitude for physical design and a track record of innovation in new product development or research
• Demonstrated track record of collaborating in a multi-disciplinary R&D team and mentoring junior engineers

Relevant work experience: Five plus years applying plasma physics principles to experimental research programs to characterize plasma behavior and its interaction with the surrounding components. Education including PhD can be considered if they hold lower than above required tenure.

Major Physical Demands:

• Standing: Occasional standing for work
• Lifting: Occasional lifting
• Walking: Frequent walking throughout the campus facility
• Carrying: Occasional carrying of light objects for short distances
• Bending: Occasional bending
• Reaching: Occasional reaching
• Environment: Standard office / desktop workspace and test laboratory space,

Ready to make an impact and become an employee-owner? Apply now to join our inclusive and innovative team! Explore open positions.

S&C Electric is committed to equal-opportunity employment. All employees and applicants will be considered without regard to age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation to complete the application, please email us at TAsupport@sandc.com.

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