Inverter Specialist

Employment Status:
Regular

Time Type:
Full time

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At the heart of CSA Group is a vision: making the world a better, safer, more sustainable place. It's been part of our mission for nearly one hundred years: from the first engineering standard for railway bridges developed in 1919, to more than 3,500 standards, codes & related products today.

Headquartered in Canada, with a global footprint of more than 30 labs and offices across Europe, Asia and North America, CSA Group tests, inspects and certifies a wide range of products - from every day househould items to leading edge technology-to meet exacting requirements for safety, performance and environmental impact.

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Job Summary:
CSA is building a new state of the art energy storage lab in Cleveland, Ohio where we are looking for an engineer with knowledge and experience in design, evaluation, and testing of inverters to take the lead on testing these types of products in the new lab. This person will be directly responsible for managing certification and custom test projects, drafting test protocols based upon client needs, building custom test setups, conducting testing, reviewing / recording test results, and providing specified deliverables to our clients.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:
- Efficiently manages certification projects concurrently and ensures completion within time frames and cost deadlines to generate specified revenue targets. Evaluates products against requirements of national / international standards and precedent decisions. Makes technical decisions.- Handles a wide spectrum of projects including those that are complex generating high revenue levels.- Able to consistently maintain very high productivity while managing multiple projects with on-time and on-budget performance.- Actively looks for efficiencies (continual improvement) and can demonstrate changes made to laboratory operations that have delivered productivity gains year on year.- Identifies and seeks approval for the development of new or improved evaluation processes, standards interpretations, and forms & templates. Identifies and seeks approval for the development of new or improved test facilities, including laboratory equipment and procedures.-
- Participates in CSA Technical Network, Technical Panel as required and may support international standards development. Considered a technical authority both inside CSA and across industry as evidenced by participation in technical committees, authoring technical papers, etc.- Represents CSA Group at Public functions.- Provides formal internal and external technical presentations.- Supports team in audit processes.- Conducts manufacturer’s facility assessment for CPC and SMT / SMTC programs.- Conducts construction evaluation, ensuring the unit complies with the construction section of the standard; identifies rationale for compliance or non-compliance.- Collaborates with Lab Technician to create a work order which test are required, and the order of the tests and the number of samples required.- Evaluates products at the customer facility. Witness’s tests performed by the customer on their products. Evaluates construction of products. Reviews customer test methods. Ensures all test equipment are within guidelines. Provides technical briefing on existing requirements. Answers inquiries regarding standards and legal requirements.-
- Acts as a Subject Matter Expert to support the development of innovative new programs to integrate new features or complex features in products. Assists and supports Technical Management, Commercial, Standards, and Operations where required expertise and innovative solutions are created to address complex program requirements, such as multi-disciplinary technologies or products not addressed by currently published requirements.- Provides technical information service to external and internal customers including those forwarded by the Client Service Center. Liaises with customer in design stage to ensure requirements of national / international standards are met without compromising confidentiality.- Acts as back up for the Technical Oversight Specialist. Provides technical support, specialized training as assigned by Product Group Manager/Team Lead to staff of CSA, Network Partners, customers or subcontracted independent testing laboratories and ensures technical consistency. Communicates interpretations of requirements to peers and customers. Develops certification practices to solve technical problems involving new technology.- Provides technical guidance and training. Answers inquiries regarding standards and legal requirements.- Acts as a Notified Body representative or Reviewer to support Certification Decision or issuance of Approvals.- May be qualified to perform (CB) Report reviews and con