Electrical Engineer

Harmar Mobility LLC•Sarasota, FL

About The Position

Harmar Mobility manufactures mobility-device lifts for vehicles and accessibility products, including stair lifts and residential and commercial vertical platform lifts. The Electrical Engineer develops and maintains electronics for medical devices, taking solutions from definition and documentation through prototyping, testing, qualification, and release to production. The role evaluates product concepts for functionality, manufacturability, packaging, and material handling, and helps bring products into mass production while balancing cost, quality, timing, and product value. The engineer supports existing products, improves the electronics development process, coordinates electrical safety compliance and testing, and manages internal testing resources and engineering documentation. Major design areas include power supplies, batteries, printed circuit boards, embedded systems, AC and DC motors, ESD and EMI suppression, and analog and digital circuit design. The role also evaluates electrical systems and components through research and testing and maintains product data using computer programs.

Requirements

Four to five years of experience working in an electrical engineering role.
Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
Ability to work independently and as a team member under time and resource constraints.
Strong planning and organizational skills, including the ability to manage projects, multitask, and set priorities.
Strong technical problem-solving skills and the ability to develop solutions for a smooth workflow in a fast-paced product development environment.
Effective interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to express ideas precisely, persuasively, and effectively.
Ability to specify, evaluate, and select appropriate electrical and electronic components.
Experience working on a design team and interfacing with customers, suppliers, and technical resources outside the company.
Familiarity with firmware/hardware interactions and compliance issues.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain electronics for medical devices, including definition, documentation, prototyping, testing and debugging, qualification, and release to production.
Evaluate and optimize product concepts for function, manufacturability, packaging, and material handling.
Generate prototypes and test products to confirm they function properly, meet specifications, and meet timing objectives.
Develop and evaluate cost analyses for new and modified product concepts from design through production launch, and assist with bringing products to mass production.
Work on assigned special projects, such as evaluating competitive products, processes, and technologies.
Provide technical support to solve electronic product quality problems with existing products.
Improve the electronics development process to support quality, time-to-market, and efficiency.
Meet electrical safety compliance requirements, including FDA, CE, UL, NEC, and FCC requirements, and coordinate product compliance testing.
Select and standardize key components.
Manage resources responsible for maintaining engineering documentation, including bills of material and procedures, in DCD.
Help determine which electronics activities should be performed internally and which should be subcontracted, considering cost, quality, lead time, and knowledge development.
Manage internal testing resources and ensure testing and reporting quality.
Evaluate electrical systems, products, components, and applications by designing and conducting research programs and applying knowledge of electricity and materials.
Design testing methods and test properties to confirm system and component capabilities.
Maintain the product database by writing computer programs and entering data.