Senior Electrical Components Quality Engineer- Wire Wound & Electrolytic Caps

We are Generac, a leading energy technology company committed to powering a smarter world.

Over the 60 plus years of Generac’s history, we’ve been dedicated to energy innovation. From creating the home standby generator market category, to our current evolution into an energy technology solutions company, we continue to push new boundaries.

Generac Energy Technologies is seeking a Senior Electrical Components Engineer to join our growing Generac home team. This role is responsible for ensuring the selection, quality, reliability, and performance of wire wound and analog components specialized in electrolytic capacitors used across Generac’s energy products.  The successful candidate will work with electrical design team and support in component selection, their in-circuit performance verification, lead supplier qualification activities, and manage the technical aspects of assigning electronic commodities. This includes conducting process audits, driving root cause analysis, and resolving supplier-related quality issues. This position requires a strong passion for delivering high-quality, defect-free components and subassemblies, ensuring they meet design specifications and support the reliable manufacture of final assemblies.

Up to 30/40% travel may be required for this role.

NOTE: Candidate must be flexible with workhours to collaborate with team in USA

This position is based on one of the following locations: Pune, India

Major Responsibilities

- Participate in design reviews with Electrical Engineering, contributing to the development and validation of electrical systems, including schematics, PCB layouts, and wiring diagrams for solar and battery energy storage applications.
- Utilize circuit simulation tools such as LTspice to analyze and validate electrical designs, ensuring component selection meets performance, reliability, and applicable regulatory requirements.
- Demonstrate strong expertise in wire-wound components, including selection based on design requirements, electrical performance under stress conditions, material selection, and manufacturing best practices.
- Provide technical quality support for transformers, inductors, chokes, and other magnetic components, including review of component drawings, specifications, and critical-to-quality (CTQ) characteristics.
- Audit magnetics manufacturing processes, including core assembly, winding, wire handling, insulation, soldering, termination, varnishing, and final testing; evaluate winding quality, wire tension, wire routing, insulation integrity, core alignment, and mechanical workmanship.
- Apply strong knowledge of power electronics, including high-frequency AC-DC, DC-AC, and DC-DC conversion topologies.
- Analyze and interpret component datasheets to support optimal component selection, electrical performance, and reliability.
- Serve as a key contributor to electrical design reviews, ensuring component reliability and alignment with system requirements.
- Review engineering drawings and specifications to verify quality requirements; identify and communicate gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Identify CTQ components within BOMs and manage supplier PPAP activities to ensure component quality, reliability, and compliance requirements are met.
- Apply 8D problem-solving methodologies to investigate component issues, conduct root-cause analysis, and issue SCARs to suppliers to drive effective corrective actions and prevent recurrence.
- Conduct electrical and electronic component supplier process audits across domestic and South Asian locations, evaluating manufacturing processes, quality controls, testing, process capability, and corrective-action effectiveness.
- Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Reliability teams to resolve component issues and support new product development, qualification, and production readiness.
- Perform additional duties as required.

Minimum Job Requirements

Education

- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

Work Experience

- Must have at least 5 years of manufacturing high reliability electronic, electromechanical products with a focus on quality management in a contract manufacturing environment.
- Hands-on experience in electronic parts selection and qualification to ensure parts are qualified by design documents and selected test parameters.
- Experience working on electronic assembly environments with contract manufacturing where component qualification through Parts PPAP process and IQC was required.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

- Must possess strong technical fluency in selecting wire wound magnetics
- Experience with eCAD tools like Altium, Eagle to design review an electrical design at schematic and layout levels.
- Solid quantitative skill set and the ability to analyze and communicate with well-supported data
- Proficient with the suite of Office Software, Quality and Statistical tools.
- An individual critical thinker to strategically align actions to needs and set goals for a technical team for success.

Preferred Job Requirements

Education

- Formally trained in magnetics design for power electronic applications
- Demonstrate knowledge of PCBA manufacturing process and testing
- Support quality assurance for analog components such as resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors, voltage regulators, operational amplifiers, and other discrete or integrated analog devices.
- Strong expertise in electrolytic capacitors, including capacitance, ESR, leakage current, ripple-current capability, voltage and temperature ratings, endurance and life testing, failure modes, and manufacturing quality processes.

Certification / License

- Familiarity with lean manufacturing principles, Six Sigma green or black belt preferred.
- IEEE certification will be a plus.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

- Proven experience collaborating with multiple sites and functions to drive common solutions.
- Experience collaborating with component manufacturers, distributors, and field application engineers (FAEs) to stay current on new product introductions, and application-specific solutions.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

Office Environment (Includes field sales):

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls.  The employee is regularly required to stand and walk.  On occasion, the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend, or reach above the shoulders.  The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 pounds. Specific conditions of this job are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting, close vision, and the ability to adjust focus. Occasional travel. (If travel percentage is required beyond occasional or is a regular part of the job, include “Up to x% travel and valid Driver’s License required.”)

Production Environment (Includes professionals who are active on the shop floor) (For Field Technicians):

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand.  The employee is frequently required to use hands to manipulate objects, tools, or controls; and to talk and hear.  The employee is regularly required to walk, stoop, crouch, bend and reach above shoulders.  The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds unassisted and up to 100 pounds with assistance, waist high, up to 10 feet away.  This job's specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be working in the typical conditions of a manufacturing environment, including seasonal variations in temperatures and occasional exposure to manufacturing fumes or byproducts. The employee must comply with the assigned location PPE requirements, including but not limited to safety glasses, hearing protection, appropriate gloves, clothing, and shields for required tasks, and closed-toed or safety shoes as required by facility safety policies. The employee must be able to work in varying weather conditions including extreme heat, snow, and ice. The employee may be required to obtain a DOT Medical Card and have the ability to drive a heavy-duty truck on a daily basis.

DISCLAIMER

All responsibilities and requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only responsibilities to be performed by an employee occupying this job or position.  Employees must follow any other job-related instructions and perform any other job-related duties requested by their leaders.