Electrical Engineering Manager

Career Area: Engineering

Occupation Group: Engineering Managers

Salary

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An example would be the 25th percentile, 25 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 75 percent earn more than the estimated wage value. At the 75th percentile, 75 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 25 percent earn more than the estimated wage value.

A typical Electrical Engineering Manager earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $88,545

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $103,367

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Oversees engineering and technical design of electrical engineering projects, such as power plants, telecommunications or microelectronics. Manages communication and coordination among different types of engineers working on a project. Supervises project schedule, budget, and communications with stakeholders. Often supervises teams of electrical engineers.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Electrical Engineering Manager is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.
• Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office is an office suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Budgeting: Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.
• Engineering Management: Experience organizing, administering, and planning the operational performance of complex engineering driven enterprises.
• Project Management: Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.
• Scheduling: Working experience making schedules, which are basic time-management tools, consisting of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place withing an organization.
• Electrical Engineering: Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Electrical Engineering Manager that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Altium: Working experience of Altium. Altium Limited is an Australian owned public software company that provides PC-based electronics design software for engineers who design printed circuit boards. Founded in Tasmania, Australia in 1985, Altium now has regional headquarters in Australia, China, United States, Europe, and Japan, with resellers in all other major markets.
• Power Distribution: Power distribution is a process which is used to move electricity from locations where it is generated to people who need it. Distribution takes place through a system known as the electrical grid or simply grid, which is designed to keep power constantly on call so that it can meet demand.
• Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Programming: A programmable logic controller (PLC), or programmable controller is an industrial digital computer which has been ruggedised and adapted for the control of manufacturing processes, such as assembly lines, or robotic devices, or any activity that requires high reliability control and ease of programming and process fault diagnosis.
• Microcontrollers: A microcontroller (or MCU for microcontroller unit) is a small computer on a single integrated circuit.
• Project Design: Project design is an early phase of the project where a projects key features, structure, criteria for success, and major deliverables are all planned out.

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• Power Generation: Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Electrical Engineering Manager
• Industrial Electrical Project Manager
• Manager, Electrical Engineering
• Chief Engineer
• Engineering Manager Electrical/Power Supply

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