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Grayhill designs and manufactures intuitive human interface solutions that make life simpler, safer and more efficient. Standard products include optical encoders, rotary switches, keypads, joysticks, displays, touchscreens and pushbuttons. These components are sold to thousands of customers around the globe. Grayhill also incorporates these standard products into control panels to support a range of major customers in the Healthcare, Agriculture, Construction Equipment and Military markets. Our headquarters are in LaGrange, IL with manufacturing facilities located in McCook and Carpentersville IL, Iola WI and Shenzhen China.

We offer opportunities for talented professionals seeking challenging careers with a proven industry leader.

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Summary Electrical Engineer needed to design and develop new products and modify and improve existing products with our Healthcare Solutions team by performing the following duties.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: other duties may be assigned

• Develop and design new products and modify and improve existing products within budgetary constraints and customer requirements, and with consideration of a life cycle perspective for the product
• Select materials and, in conjunction with Manufacturing, select methods to be used in the assembly.
• Requisition parts, supplies, services and tooling as needed.
• Analyze CCAs for root cause and develop corrective action response.
• Complete CCA corrective action and submit to Leader for approval .
• Provide technical assistance to Sales Department for quotations.
• Provide complete working drawings when project is released from Engineering to Production.
• Test and evaluate designs and provide product specifications or test data as required.
• Analyze test data and reports to determine if design meets functional and performance specifications.
• Provide Sales Department with special design/price requests (SD/PRs).
• Recommend new products and/or modifications and improvements to existing products.
• Interface with customers as necessary to clarify design objectives on projects and communicate updates to Sales Department.
• Recommend suppliers and/or other outside sources for technical information as needed to meet design objectives and communicate information to Purchasing Department.
• Accept or reject parts, assemblies and/or tooling.
• Provide technical support to internal and external customers.
• Adhere to Grayhill release to production protocols
• Coach and mentor associates assigned to projects
• Travel expected (10%) with some international

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree (B. S.) in Electrical Engineering
• Minimum of two years related experience and/or training
• Experience in the design or designing robust immunity and low EMI per FCC, CE
• Experience with design and documentation requirements for medical products
• Root Cause analysis using 8D methodology

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Experience with embedded microcontroller and microprocessor design.
• Ability to interpret customer requirements and develop detailed design documents
• Strong understanding of EMI and EMC mitigation
• Development of LCD interfaces
• Proficiency with C/C++
• Experience with designing for MIL-STD-3009 lighting requirements
• Design of Experiments (DOE)
• Design for Manufacturability (DFM)
• Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA)

What we have to offer:

• You will be at the forefront of challenging work. We solve complex problems with innovative solutions across all teams and in all roles. There is purpose in our work!
• Comprehensive Health Insurance; medical, dental, prescription, and vision starting on day one.
• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401(K) match up to 4% of salary
• Hybrid work model allowing 4 days a month remote
• Collaboration Space featuring ping pong, foosball, board games, and more...
• Company paid holidays
• Optional gap insurance coverages
• Company paid disability and basic group life
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program
• Catered company events - to pause and celebrate the wins!

We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of gender, color, race, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or national origin.

This position requires use of information or access to hardware which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a U.S. person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), Political Asylee, or Refugee.