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We’recommitted to making a positive impact on the world, providing you with diverse learning and working opportunities, and fostering a culture where everyone’sempowered to be their best.\nThe Specification Engineer serves as the engineering owner of product definitions, bills of materials (BOMs), and product performance requirements. This position is responsible for ensuring all products are accurately defined, properly documented, and manufactured in compliance with customer requirements, industry standards, and performance expectations. Working on-site, the Specification Engineer translates approved designs, customer specifications, and regulatory requirements into manufacturable product specifications, controlled BOMs, quality requirements, and testing instructions for wire and cable products.\nEssential Duties and Responsibilities\nProduct Performance and Specification Development\nTranslate approved designs, customer specifications, drawings, application requirements, and industry standards into complete, accurate, and manufacturable product specifications.\nApply electrical and mechanical engineering principles, including capacitance, cross-talk, resistance, shielding, dielectric behavior, and mechanical performance requirements, to evaluate cable designs and constructions.\nVerify that conductor, insulation, shielding, jacket materials, dimensions, tolerances, and testing requirements align with intended product performance and compliance objectives.\nIndependently review new and revised product definitions to identify missing information, conflicting requirements, unsupported assumptions, excessive tolerance risks, and insufficient validation requirements.\nBill of Materials Ownership and Change Control\nCreate, calculate, verify, release, and maintain engineering BOMs, including material specifications, quantities, construction sequences, approved alternatives, and yield/scrap assumptions.\nEnsure all BOMs align with released designs, manufacturing instructions, purchasing specifications, quality plans, and customer or industry requirements.\nReview and approve BOM revisions within delegated authority, evaluating material substitutions and construction changes for performance, compliance, quality, manufacturability, cost, and validation requirements.\nReject, return, or hold incomplete, unsupported, or technically risky changes and escalate fundamental design concerns to Design Engineering or Engineering Leadership as appropriate.\n Manufacturing Instructions and Cross-Functional Support\nCreate and maintain controlled manufacturing instructions, critical dimensions, tolerances, quality checkpoints, testing requirements, and acceptance criteria.\nPartner with Manufacturing and Process Engineering teams to ensure manufacturability and establish approved production routes, process parameters, and scrap guidelines.\nProvide product definition support to Quality, Purchasing, Planning, Order Entry, Costing, Design Engineering, Application Engineering, and Product Management teams.\nServe as the designated New Product Introduction (NPI) leader for all new products introduced at the Pearl facility.\nEducation and Experience\nBachelor’s degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, or a related technical field; or an equivalent combination of education and directly applicable wire and cable engineering experience.\nMinimum of 3-5 years of relevant engineering experience.\nExperience creating, interpreting, and maintaining engineering specifications, drawings, bills of materials, product structures, controlled documentation, and testing requirements.\nExperience within the wire and cable industry is strongly preferred.\nPreferred experience with transmission lines, telecommunications cable, engineering change control processes, and applicable standards such as UL, CSA, NFPA, IEC, and IEEE.\nKnowledge, Skills, and Abilities\nStrong ability to utilize engineering calculations, professional judgment, standards, historical data, and test results to validate technical requirements and decisions.\nUnderstanding of how material selection, dimensions, and construction methods impact electrical and mechanical product performance.\nAbility to identify and communicate technical risks while effectively escalating unresolved concerns.\nDemonstrated ability to balance performance, compliance, quality, manufacturability, cost, and delivery objectives.\nStrong attention to detail with a commitment to revision control, documentation accuracy, traceability, and cross-functional collaboration.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively across all levels of the organization.\nProficiency with laboratory equipment, engineering tools, and design software.\nCommitment to continuous improvement and actively contributing to operational excellence initiatives.\n Working Conditions and Physical Requirements\nAbility to work for extended periods in a seated position while utilizing computers, reviewing technical documentation, and performing repetitive tasks.\nAbility to lift, move, and carry materials weighing up to 25 pounds.\nAbility to work collaboratively within a manufacturing environment that may involve elevated noise levels.\nAbility to follow all safety procedures and wear required personal protective equipment (PPE) when on the production floor.\nAbility to hear and participate in normal conversations and phone communications.\n Work Environment\nClimate-controlled office environment.\nRegular exposure to a manufacturing environment with varying noise levels.\nMarmon Industrial Energy & Infrastructure is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, pregnancy, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.\nFollowing receipt of a conditional offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete additional job-related screening processesas permitted or required by applicable law.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to their membership in any protected class. 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