Dean Renfro
About the company
101-1000 employees Engineering and Manufacturing
Tenaciousness and passion are two words that describe how Dean Renfro approaches every day and every recruiting project.
With forty-plus years as a small business owner with employees, Dean understands the need to hire the right person for the right job. Having a digital marketing business, he constantly heard clients talk about the struggle of hiring good employees. Using his background in assessing candidates for employment with a national-based non-profit, he began to help his clients find candidates to hire. This soon turned into a full-time activity.
Dean’s experience and training as a certified speaker, trainer, and personality coach with the John Maxwell Team, gives him the ability to gain great insights for both clients who are looking to hire and candidates searching for employment. He has a background in construction, engineering, and non-profits.
What I Do:
I help YOU interview the best candidates
I reduce the resources YOU need to source qualified candidates
I give YOU back your time that is often wasted sifting through streams of unqualified resumes
I bring YOU access to candidates you would never have access to
Who I Work With:
Those serious about finding and hiring candidates to fill their positions — Business owners, HR departments, Hiring authorities, and Company Executives.
I specialize in Industrial sourcing for:
Engineers – Project managers – Construction & Manufacturing roles – Oil & Gas
I specialize in Professional Services sourcing for:
Insurance Agents & Customer Care Representatives, Financial Sector -CPAs – Senior Accountants & Tax Accountants
R&D Electrical Engineer
We are seeking an experienced R&D Electrical Engineer to join our growing team on-site. The R&D Electrical Engineer position focuses on research and development of innovative designs to solve real-world problems in the realm of power, energy, and charging technologies. This position is responsible for product development, technical analysis, program management, proposal support, and technical presentations of new technology within a cohort of an experienced engineering team.
The ideal candidate will have experience in power electronics design such as inverters, voltage or current converters, battery chargers, and/or transformers. Candidate should be a self-starter, drawing on proven field experience to develop projects which are successful with our customers or awarded for federally funded grant opportunities.
The R&D Electrical Engineer should be creative, motivated, organized, and visionary. This position requires the ability to engage new technologies which may provide solutions for vaguely defined problems in power conversion and energy storage. The best candidate will be a team-player with good verbal and written English communication skills. Cross-team functionality is imperative as this position will be working with engineering, manufacturing, sales/marketing, and various support departments.
Duties will include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Perform research to determine design viability and potential patentability of new designs
• Review circuit design/schematics/layout, EMI reduction or mitigation
• Design, build, and test first generation technically advanced products
• Support root cause analysis for field issues
• Prepare system layout and detail schematic drawings
• Develop test plans for functional verification of the design
• Support engineering and production teams in troubleshooting and manufacturability
• Seek, evaluate, and propose grants to obtain federal funding for projects
• Prepare technical presentations for internal stakeholders, government agencies, and potential suppliers and customers
• Support creation of proposals to address the needs of various government agencies (to include DoD, DoE, and NSF) in concert with business development team
• Develop key performance indicators and design requirements to transition R&D projects to standard production
Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering with 7+ Years’ experience in R&D engineering design OR Master’s or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering with 5+ Years’ experience in R&D engineering design
• Ability to obtain/maintain US security clearance (with company sponsorship)
• Experience submitting federal or customer R&D proposals
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite, PCB layout software, and other key electrical simulation softwares
• Excellent written and oral English communication skills
Preferred:
• Experience submitting patent filings or technology license transfers
• Experience with military standards (MIL-STD-1275, MIL-STD-704, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461) or equivalent automotive standards
