Senior Electrical Program Engineer

FORTNA partners with the world’s leading brands to transform omnichannel and parcel distribution operations. Known world-wide for enabling companies to keep pace with digital disruption and growth objectives, we design and deliver solutions, powered by intelligent software, to optimize fast, accurate and cost-effective order fulfillment and last mile delivery. Our people, innovative approach and proprietary algorithms and tools ensure optimal operations design and material and information flow. We deliver exceptional value every day to our customers with comprehensive services and products including network strategy, distribution center operational design and implementation, material handling automated equipment, robotics and a comprehensive suite of lifecycle services.

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Position Summary

The Senior Electrical Program Engineer (SEPE) provides senior-level electrical engineering expertise across FORTNA’s parcel customer's program, with an emphasis on conveyor and parcel-handling systems. This position supports projects primarily during the pre-award, estimating, planning, and handoff phases to help ensure electrical scope, design assumptions, schedules, risks, and costs are appropriately defined before execution begins.

Serving as a trusted technical liaison, the Senior Electrical Program Engineer works across parcel customer, Sales, Estimating, Scheduling, Engineering, Strategic Sourcing, Field Services, and project execution teams. The position reviews and advises on project-specific work while owning the electrical standards, standard designs, and engineering practices used across the electrical program.

This is a senior individual-contributor role with no direct reports. The position leads through technical expertise, mentoring, collaboration, and influence rather than formal authority.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop an in-depth understanding of customer technical standards, electrical specifications, and operational requirements.
• Participate in pre-award technical reviews, scope reviews, bid reviews, and project handoff activities.
• Review proposed electrical solutions and identify design concerns, missing requirements, scope gaps, risks, clarifications, and necessary exceptions.
• Advise Estimating on electrical hardware, engineering hours, system requirements, and technical assumptions without owning the final estimate.
• Provide input to project schedules by evaluating engineering duration, resource requirements, technical dependencies, and execution risks.
• Support the development of risk registers and provide electrical engineering input during opportunity and project reviews.
• Serve as a senior technical interface between the customer and FORTNA’s electrical engineering organization.
• Translate customer decisions, revised standards, and technical requirements into clear direction for project execution teams.
• Own and maintain customer electrical standards, standard control panels, drawing packages, templates, and reusable engineering solutions.
• Review project designs, drawings, calculations, hardware selections, and technical documentation to confirm alignment with established standards.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary design reviews to promote effective integration between electrical, controls, mechanical, software, estimating, and field teams.
• Capture and distribute lessons learned across active parcel projects to prevent recurring design and execution issues.
• Mentor and advise electrical engineers working on parcel customer projects without direct supervisory responsibility.
• Develop and deliver customer-specific technical training in partnership with the Training team.
• Identify opportunities to reduce engineering effort, improve repeatability, strengthen quality, and standardize project delivery.
• Support short-term project execution needs when critical technical issues or resource constraints require senior engineering involvement.
• Communicate technical risks and recommendations effectively to customers, engineers, project leaders, sales teams, and senior management.

Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Advanced electrical engineering knowledge within conveyor, parcel-handling, warehouse automation, distribution, or material-handling systems.
• Strong experience with Rockwell Automation and Allen-Bradley products.
• Experience designing or reviewing industrial electrical control panels.
• Working knowledge of UL 508A, NEC requirements, electrical component selection, and field power distribution.
• Experience with AutoCAD Electrical or comparable electrical CAD software.
• Understanding of distributed controls architecture and industrial control-system integration.
• Ability to review electrical drawings, technical calculations, system designs, hardware selections, and customer specifications.
• Experience supporting technical scope development, estimating, project scheduling, design reviews, or pre-award engineering activities.
• Ability to identify technical and commercial risks before projects enter execution.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent customer-facing communication, negotiation, and conflict-resolution capabilities.
• Ability to explain complex technical issues clearly to both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and determine where technical involvement will provide the greatest value.
• Strong initiative, learning agility, organization, and customer focus.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline from an accredited college or university with six or more years of relevant experience; or
• 10+ years of relevant electrical engineering experience in lieu of a bachelor’s degree.
• 8-10+ years of progressive electrical engineering experience in conveyor, parcel-handling, or material-handling automation is strongly preferred.
• Direct experience supporting parcel engineering standards or parcel projects is strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting parcel and distribution operations may be considered when accompanied by strong conveyor-system expertise.
• Previous experience as a Senior Electrical Engineer, Lead Electrical Engineer, Electrical Project Engineer, Senior Project Engineer, or comparable technical lead is preferred.
• Previous people-management experience is not required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting multiple concurrent projects or an enterprise customer program.
• Experience developing standardized control panels, electrical drawing packages, templates, or engineering practices.
• Experience conducting technical design reviews and supporting project risk assessments.
• Experience working for a material-handling systems integrator or parcel automation provider.
• Experience developing technical training or mentoring electrical engineers.
• Demonstrated success improving engineering efficiency, design quality, or process consistency.

Work Arrangement and Travel

• This position is remote.
• Travel is generally limited and occurs as needed for customer meetings, office visits, design reviews, training, and job-site support.
• Travel may occasionally reach up to 25% based on project or business requirements.
• A valid driver’s license and the ability to rent a vehicle without a co-renter are required.

Base Salary Range

The base salary range for this role is $87,600 to $131,300. This range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base salary for the position. The actual salary offered will vary based on factors including location, experience, job-related knowledge, skills, qualifications, and performance.

This job description describes the general nature and level of work expected of a person assigned to this position. All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. Employees may be required to perform any other job-related duties as requested by their supervisor.

It is the policy of FORTNA and its affiliated companies to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, citizenship status (if authorized to work in the U.S.), or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, FORTNA will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.