Senior Electrical Engineer, Facilities Management High-Voltage Electrical Infrastructure

Bosch Group•Charleston, SC

About The Position

The Senior Electrical Engineer serves as the site technical subject matter expert for electrical power infrastructure, ensuring the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of high-, medium-, and low-voltage distribution systems. The role provides engineering oversight for utility services, substations, transformers, switchgear, protective relays, circuit breakers, grounding systems, emergency power systems, generators, automatic transfer switches, and uninterruptible power supplies. It leads infrastructure planning, capacity assessments, system studies, reliability improvements, and long-term strategies for capacity, redundancy, equipment lifecycle, spare parts, and business continuity. The position provides technical leadership for electrical safety and code compliance, supports the site arc-flash program, and oversees shutdowns, switching operations, electrical lockout/tagout, troubleshooting, and power restoration. It develops preventive and predictive maintenance strategies, reviews thermal imaging surveys, coordinates condition-based maintenance, investigates equipment failures and power-quality events, and manages critical electrical spare parts. The engineer leads electrical infrastructure and facilities capital projects from planning and design through procurement, construction, commissioning, acceptance, and turnover. This includes preparing scopes, specifications, estimates, and bid evaluations; reviewing designs and submittals; coordinating consultants and contractors; scheduling outages and construction phasing; inspecting work; and maintaining project records. The role collaborates with utilities, consultants, contractors, equipment manufacturers, authorities, HSE, Facilities, and manufacturing engineering.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited engineering program.
At least 5 years of progressively responsible electrical engineering experience in industrial, manufacturing, utility, or large commercial power-distribution systems.
Professional experience with high-, medium-, and low-voltage power distribution systems, including substations, transformers, switchgear, circuit breakers, protective relays, and grounding systems.
Project-management experience involving electrical infrastructure design, construction, and commissioning.
Experience reviewing or performing short-circuit, protective-device coordination, load-flow, and arc-flash/incident-energy studies.
Working knowledge of NFPA 70/NEC, NFPA 70E, OSHA electrical-safety requirements, and IEEE 1584.
Knowledge of South Carolina building and electrical codes and applicable facility standards.
Ability to read, interpret, and maintain electrical one-line diagrams, protective-device settings, electrical specifications, and engineering calculations.
Experience planning and coordinating electrical outages and infrastructure construction.
Strong analytical and root-cause problem-solving skills.
Ability to independently manage multiple technical projects and priorities.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain electrical risks to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Indefinite U.S. work authorization; future work-authorization sponsorship is not available.

Nice To Haves

Professional Engineer (PE) license or Engineer-in-Training (EIT) certification.
Experience with electrical power-system analysis software such as ETAP, EasyPower, or SKM PowerTools.
Experience with protective-relay programming and testing and electrical-system coordination studies.
Experience with industrial utility-scale substations and medium-voltage distribution systems.
Experience with SAP maintenance or asset-management systems.
Experience with preventive and predictive electrical maintenance, including thermography, transformer dissolved gas analysis (DGA), and condition monitoring.
Experience supporting electrical systems in automotive or high-volume manufacturing environments.
Experience with emergency generation, UPS, ATS, power quality, and critical power systems.
Experience with energy-management, demand-management, renewable-energy, or electrical decarbonization projects.
Self-starting, results-oriented approach with the ability to work independently with minimal supervision and lead others effectively.
Strong collaboration skills and ability to work effectively across technical and nontechnical teams.
Flexibility to occasionally work overtime, weekends, and holidays as required.
Comfort working in a combination of office and field environments, including occasional lifting of up to 25 pounds and use of personal protective equipment.

Responsibilities

Serve as the site technical subject matter expert for high-, medium-, and low-voltage electrical power infrastructure.
Provide engineering oversight for utility services, substations, transformers, switchgear, protective relays, breakers, grounding, emergency power systems, generators, ATS equipment, and UPS systems.
Lead electrical infrastructure planning and capacity assessments for expansions, production equipment, building projects, and future site growth.
Develop, maintain, and review load-flow, short-circuit, protective-device coordination, arc-flash/incident-energy, grounding, and capacity studies.
Maintain electrical one-line diagrams, system documentation, equipment data, breaker settings, panel schedules, and infrastructure records.
Develop long-term infrastructure strategies for capacity, reliability, redundancy, equipment condition, lifecycle replacement, spare parts, and business continuity.
Assess electrical-system reliability, identify single points of failure, and recommend improvements or capital projects to reduce production and business risk.
Coordinate with utilities, consultants, contractors, manufacturers, AHJs, HSE, Facilities, and manufacturing engineering on projects and system modifications.
Provide technical leadership for electrical safety and compliance with applicable codes, standards, and requirements.
Support the site arc-flash program, including studies, equipment labels, electrical-system model updates, PPE requirements, and updates after significant modifications.
Provide engineering oversight for electrical shutdowns, switching, LOTO, energized troubleshooting, and power restoration.
Support electrical safety audits, inspections, risk assessments, corrective actions, and safe-work guidance.
Develop and maintain preventive and predictive maintenance strategies for electrical distribution equipment.
Review infrared/thermal imaging surveys, identify risks, and prioritize corrective actions.
Coordinate condition-based maintenance, including transformer oil and DGA analysis, breaker and relay testing, secondary injection testing, switchgear maintenance, lubrication, and exercising.
Analyze failures, electrical disturbances, nuisance trips, and power-quality events; lead root-cause investigations and implement corrective actions.
Maintain a critical electrical spare-parts strategy and inventory based on reliability, lead time, failure consequence, and production risk.
Lead planning, design, estimating, procurement, construction, and commissioning of electrical infrastructure and facilities capital projects.
Develop scopes of work, technical specifications, RFQs, cost estimates, and bid evaluations with Purchasing.
Review engineering drawings, one-lines, calculations, equipment submittals, and contractor designs for compliance with site standards and codes.
Coordinate contractors and engineering consultants with attention to safety, technical quality, cost, schedule, and system reliability.
Plan and coordinate electrical outages, switching, construction phasing, and production disruptions.
Perform construction inspections and recommend design changes when field conditions warrant.
Lead commissioning and acceptance of new or modified electrical systems, verifying testing, protection settings, documentation, and as-built drawings before turnover.
Maintain project records, including budgets, contracts, change orders, drawings, specifications, meeting records, invoices, purchase orders, and commissioning documentation.
Lead final project walk-throughs, punch-list resolution, customer acceptance, and turnover to operations and maintenance.

Benefits

Competitive salary.
Competitive time-away-from-work policy.
Paid time off: 16 days, up to 30 days based on seniority.
5 personal days.
9 company-paid holidays.
6 weeks of paid parental leave.
401(k) with a 75% match up to the first 9% contribution.
Bosch Defined Contribution plan with 100% company-funded 401(k) contributions ranging from 2.5% to 6.5% of pay.
Student debt retirement savings match.
Profit-sharing bonus (CPrP) up to 10%.
Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Onsite cafeteria.
Onsite Starbucks Cafe.
Employee discount at the onsite Bosch Store.
Financial planning and goal-setting resources.
Life and disability protection.