To Apply For This Position:
We ask all candidates to submit their resume through our website at www.selinc.com/careers. 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.

The Opportunity:
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) seeks a professional, innovative and meticulous individual for our Field Application Engineer position based in our Centurion office, South Africa. If you are looking for an opportunity to work with customers to interpret product specifications and literature, providing technical expertise to engineers searching for solutions to power system protection problems, assisting in after-sales product support via telephone and site visits, and participating in technical conferences, industry technical meetings, and marketing and sales activities at trade shows and relay conferences then this may be the position for you!

Field Application Engineer

Responsibilities:
*Help customers apply SEL products through visits, demonstrations, training courses and telephone contact.
*Contribute to product specifications, application and testing software and literature.
*Participate in SEL marketing and sales activities and industry technical meetings and conferences.
*Maintain and improve knowledge of all SEL products.
*Teach in training schools for customers and SEL personnel.
*Maintain customer database for customer application information.
*Follow and improve marketing, sales and engineering quality procedures

Qualifications:
*Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience
*Minimum 5 years experience in protection of electric power systems
*Excellent technical training, speaking and writing skills
*Experience with protective relay applications and industry practices
*Ability to travel
*Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities
*Ability to work cooperatively in team environment
*Background check results satisfactory to SEL

Preferred Qualifications:
*Experience using SEL products

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 categories of performance 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 several awards, including one of the “100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Washington State” (Puget Sound Business Journal, 1999 – 2003), ”Most Innovative Supplier” (Energex, 2002), "Entrepreneur of the Year" (Ernst & Young, 2000), 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 1000 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 company’s growth.

If you are ready for the challenge and benefits of being part of the SEL team, and you meet the requirements listed above, please apply online at www.selinc.com/careers.

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; 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 www.selinc.com/careers. 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, and a Drug Free Workplace.

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