Associate Technician

Associate Technician

The Opportunity:

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) seeks a professional, innovative and detailed individual for our Associate Technician position located in Alpharetta, GA. If you are looking for an opportunity to apply your technical experience and training from military service and/or technical school, enjoy traveling nationwide and provide technical support to engineers and customers in the power industry, then this position is for you!

SELs Engineering Services Branch is located in Alpharetta, GA. The Engineering Services division provides high quality, innovative and high value systems and services using Schweitzer technology. Our products protect, monitor, and control transmission lines, transformers, bus bars, capacitor banks, distribution feeders, generators, and motors worldwide. Would you like to work for a company that focuses on customer service and providing the best solutions available in the industry, then we invite you to join our team!

Associate Technician

Responsibilities:

• Field and office support for engineering staff and management as needed
• Write and/or conduct tests in support of department objectives.
• Testing relay, protection scheme, and HMI functionality.
• Wiring panels for test and production.
• Work under the technical supervision of an engineer to gather data; prepare technical specifications; create detailed physical and electrical designs, bills of materials, and job estimates; and prepare CAD drawings and other project documentation.
• Complete assigned work within agreed upon schedule and budget to a high level of quality.
• Develop and maintain a high level of expertise in the detail design practices of SEL protection and automation systems.
• Develop and maintain a high level of knowledge of SEL equipment and solutions to electric power system protection and automation.
• SEL representative overseeing construction, commissioning and start-up of electrical power systems.
• Perform maintenance and acceptance testing of electrical power system equipment.
• Perform installation and retrofitting of existing relay systems. This includes functional checkout of this equipment prior to energization.
• Assist with the root cause analysis of field failures.
• Follow and improve SEL related processes.

Qualifications:

• Associate degree in EET and/or equivalent military school training
• Strong electrical and math skills
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Strong verbal and written skills
• Willing to travel up to 75% nationwide
• Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities
• Ability to work cooperatively in team environment
• Background check results satisfactory to SEL
• Negative drug test result(s)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience providing technical service or engineering support in a manufacturing /engineering and/or military environment
• AutoCAD experience
• Working knowledge of industrial and utility practices
• Ability to write automated test plans for testing protective devices
• Familiarity with modern test equipment

An Award Winning Company

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) has a reputation for quality, reliability, integrity, and service, which has enabled us to expand both within the electric utility market and into industrial, international, and OEM markets.

In an independent survey conducted by Newton-Evans Research Company, SEL ranks first in seven performance categories including technology, features, security against hackers, web/internet information ability, technical service and support, price, and relay setting PC software. SEL provides an excellent work environment and is the recipient of numerous awards, including one of the 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Washington State (Puget Sound Business Journal, 1999 2003, 2010, and 2011), Association of Washington Businesses Manufacturing, Workplace, and Community Service awards (1998-2010), and the Washington State Quality Achievement Award (WSQA).

Apply Your Talent. Make a Difference. Enjoy the Rewards.

Are you ready to be part of a highly motivated and well-equipped team? Are you a quick learner who likes new challenges? If so, then you are ready to join us at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories.

Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer III delivered the first commercial digital protective relay in 1984. Under his technical, managerial, and fiscal leadership, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories has expanded to over 2700 employees. Ed understands and supports the need for investing in employees. In return, he expects that we hire only the best, most highly motivated team members, and that we deliver simple, reliable, and cost-effective products and solutions.

Our products and solutions must be simple and reliable because they protect the largest, most complicated machine on earth: the electric power grid. Blackouts in the U.S. and Canada remind us that reliable electric power is crucial to our society. SEL provides systems, services, and products for the protection, monitoring, control, automation, and metering of utility and industrial electric systems worldwide.

Our company and our products exist to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical. That purpose has made SEL very successful, and the company is managed with sound fiscal judgment and that purpose in mind. Profits are reinvested to fuel the companys growth.

In addition to offering a variety of challenges in a supportive, stable environment, SEL shares its success with employees by giving them stock in the company. All employees earn stock at the same rate. And because only employees can own SEL stock, the stock price is not subject to market volatility. Even when the stock market value has plunged, SEL stock consistently increased in value.

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Benefits: SEL has an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, and vision for all regular full-time employees and their entire family; long-term disability and life insurance; education assistance programs; a very generous employee stock ownership plan; 401K; flexible benefit account; and an outstanding work environment.

To Apply For This Position:

We ask all candidates to submit their resume through our website at If your qualifications and experience match any of our current openings, please submit your resume for that position so that you may be considered immediately.

SEL is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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SEL partners with customers around the world to ensure the safe, reliable, and economical delivery of electric power. We design, manufacture, and support a complete line of products and services, ranging from generator and transmission protection to distribution automation and control systems. As an employee-owned company, SEL’s core values drive the way we view our community, industry, company, and environment. At SEL you will find challenging work, state-of-the-art tools and technology, and excellent benefits. In addition, you will work beside some of the brightest minds and inventors in the industry.

At SEL, we take our commitment to quality very seriously, as demanded by the critical applications for the safe and reliable delivery of power to society. Our worldwide, ten-year product warranty not only reflects our commitment, but also demonstrates the quality and value we deliver. SEL is certified to the International Standards Organization (ISO) 9001:2008 Quality System Standard. This certification is evidence that our critical design, manufacturing, and business processes meet the exacting requirements of this internationally recognized ISO program. Additionally, our products meet or exceed both national and international testing standards.

We strive to exceed customer expectations in all aspects of product and service design, manufacture, and delivery. We define strategic objectives, operational improvement plans, and individual process improvement goals and action plans to serve as our road map for our journey of continual improvement. If you are looking for an opportunity to work in a diverse, exciting, rewarding, and challenging career, your search ends here!