Lead Panel Manufacturing Support Engineer/Specialist

Lead Panel Manufacturing Support Engineer/Specialist
Markham, ON
Months

Role Summary:

The Lead Panel Manufacturing Support Engineer/Specialist acts as the gatekeeper between engineering design and the manufacturing shop for protection, SCADA, and telecom panels.
He/she is responsible for reviewing and validating the complete panel design package—including enclosure design, panel layout, schematics, wiring drawings, wire lists, and wire length lists—to ensure technical correctness, manufacturability, safety, and compliance before release to manufacturing.
Coordinate with Enclosure supplier for the Mechanical Design requirements of Protection/Scada/Telecom Panel.

Key Responsibilities:
Design Package Review & Approval:

- Review enclosure design for correct size, type, IP/NEMA rating, mounting, cable gland provisions, thermal considerations, and compliance with applicable standards and customer specifications.
- Verify panel layouts for component fit, clearances, segregation (power/control/communications), accessibility, serviceability, and logical routing of wiring and cable ducts.
- Check schematics/elementary diagrams for correctness, completeness, consistency of device tagging, protection and control logic integrity, SCADA/telecom signal paths, and compliance with standards.
- Review wiring diagrams to ensure all connections are defined, correctly referenced, traceable, and consistent with schematics and field interface requirements.
- Validate wire lists and wire length lists for correct wire types, sizes, coding, terminations, realistic lengths, and compatibility with manufacturing tooling and processes.

Coordination with Metal Supplier:

- Enclosure Drilling Patterns & Mechanical Interface
o Coordinate with the enclosure manufacturer to define and validate drilling and cut-out patterns for:
§ Door-mounted devices (HMIs, switches, relays, lamps)
§ Side/top/bottom entries (cable glands, connectors, ventilation)
§ Backplate and internal component mounting (DIN rails, brackets, busbars)
o Provide or review drilling drawings / DXF files / drilling templates to ensure:
§ Correct positions, dimensions, and tolerances
§ Compliance with IP/NEMA rating, mechanical strength, and safety requirements
o Ensure alignment between enclosure supplier drawings and internal panel layout, wiring routes, and cable entry plans before releasing to manufacturing.

Manufacturability & Standardization:

Ensure panel designs are practical to build as per manufacturing tooling and safety requirements, maintain, and test on the shop floor, minimizing rework, build complexity, and risk of wiring errors.
Enforce and promote design and manufacturing standards, best practices, and standard templates for layouts, wiring, and labeling across protection, SCADA, and telecom panels.
Identify opportunities to improve DFM (Design for Manufacturing) and DFT (Design for Test) and drive feedback into design and standards.

Interface Between Engineering and Manufacturing:

Serve as the primary technical interface between project/engineering design teams and the manufacturing shop for all panel-related topics.
Clarify design intent for manufacturing, resolve technical queries, and ensure timely closure of non-conformities or redlines discovered during assembly and testing.
Coordinate with Quality, Testing, and Commissioning teams to ensure that test access, labeling, and documentation support efficient FAT, SAT, and field work.

Quality, Compliance, and Continuous Improvement:

Validate that designs comply with relevant standards, guidelines, and customer specifications (, safety, grounding, clearances, EMC where applicable).
Capture recurring panel design or manufacturing issues and drive root-cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions in collaboration with design and operations.
Contribute to the development and maintenance of design checklists, work instructions, and best-practice guides for panel engineering and manufacturing support.

Key Deliverables:

Reviewed and approved panel design packages ready for manufacturing release.
Consolidated review comments and redlines for engineering design teams.
Updated standards, checklists, and lessons learned for future designs.
Reduced manufacturing defects, rework, and panel build cycle time.
Coordinate with enclosure manufacturer the drilling patterns needed.

Desired Characteristics:

· Experience Protection and Control Panels Manufacturing.
· Experience in Metal fabrication and design using AUTOCAD.
· Familiarity with standard work and documentation procedures of electrical utilities.
· Interdisciplinary experience including metering, communications, substation automation and integration.
· Ability to present training courses and write technical papers/ manufacturing procedures, Engineering Instruction.
· Knowledge and experience with Client Vernova and rd Party Protection Relay products.
· Working knowledge with Autocad panel design tool.
· Strong understanding and experience with CSA, UL and CE requirements.
· Lean/ Sigma Green belt or Black belt certification preferred.
· Certified is an asset.