Sr. Systems Architect, Heavy Industries

Main mission

ELECTRA program is a common initiative from Power Products and Power Systems Divisions, intended to shape the future of electrical power distribution architectures in strategic industrial and building segments such as Petro-chemical, Water and Waste Water treatment, waste recovery, Mining, metallurgy, Motor management, Hotels, Hospitals, etc..
To reinforce its positioning on the North and South America market we are looking for a Senior power systems architect for heavy industry and water-waste-water applications.

Functions of the Senior Systems Architect:


* Business support:
+ Elaborate state-of-the-art and optimized power system architectures to reinforce Schneider Electric competitiveness in business projects
+ Engage high level discussions with customers to capture expressed and unexpressed needs


* Strategy and offer support:
+ Identify new opportunities for evolutions of the product portfolio, in LV, MV products, equipment and power conversion


* Influence:
+ Support our most valuable customers and ecosystem partners in prioritized technical investigations with expertise in power systems design, equipment sizing, power quality impacts, protection, products and equipment
+ Create highly valuable content to promote & prescribe through workshops & trainings SE solutions and competencies (white papers, webinars, conference papers)


* Knowledge sharing:
+ Organize and deliver technical support and trainings to internal sales and tendering organization
+ Support the partner ecosystem, particularly design firms on the target segments, typically trainings and webinars

Application knowledge:


* Expected basic understanding of the principle industrial processes in Petro-chemical and waste-water treatment, and key performance indicators, constraints, operation, customer roles & responsibilities


* When relevant, ability to interact on technology innovation by experimentations with customers and technical investigations (modeling, simulation of specific components and behaviors)

Power Systems expertise:


* Contribute to the definition of optimized and competitive MV/LV power systems architecture based on Schneider Electric offer capabilities and contribute to the definition of innovative electrical distribution architectures of the future


* Strong knowledge in power systems engineering (network simulation, protection, AC & DC power electronics conversion, power quality)


* Very good knowledge of SE offers (MV, LV, monitoring & control, relays) and familiar with the basic renewable energy sources (PV and solar)

Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree in Engineering or the equivalent of 15+ years of experience in electrical industry application development
• 5+ years experience in electrical system design
• 3+ years working in industrial or building applications
• Professional Engineering (PE) license strongly preferred
• PhD...