Electrical & Manufacturing Engineer

Company Description Scout Campers designs durable, four-season truck campers that are simple, sustainable, and built for adventure. Crafted with eco-conscious materials and off-grid capabilities, Scout products are engineered to minimize weight and waste while maximizing usability. The team prioritizes modular, energy-efficient designs that help customers spend more time outdoors and less time on setup. Proudly built in Washington State, Scout is part of Adventurer Manufacturing, a company with decades of experience in innovative, adventure-ready campers. The culture emphasizes hands-on craftsmanship, continuous improvement, and a shared passion for exploring the outdoors.

Role Purpose

Serve as the company-wide technical authority for electrical systems while also owning the manufacturability, repeatability, tooling, and quality of electrical/harness assembly processes.

What You Own

• Company electrical architecture and engineering standards across 12V, 48V, and AC systems.
• Wiring schematics, harness architecture, harness design standards, and electrical BOM/specification discipline.
• Battery/energy storage, solar, inverter/charger, DC/DC, HVAC electrical integration, and communications/CAN where applicable.
• Electrical safety, compliance support, validation requirements, and component standardization.
• Manufacturing engineering for the harness department, including fixtures, tooling, test equipment, error-proofing, and end-of-line testing.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain electrical architecture, schematics, harness designs, specifications, and design standards.
• Partner with brand Product Engineers & Suppliers partners to translate product requirements into safe, robust electrical systems.
• Lead next-generation electrical system development where appropriate.
• Engineer harness manufacturing methods, fixtures, test systems, assembly processes, and quality controls.
• Standardize components and interfaces across brands where doing so improves reliability, cost, service, or supply resilience.
• Support electrical prototypes, validation, troubleshooting, field failures, supplier issues, and corrective actions.
• Develop electrical diagnostic standards and production/end-of-line test methods.
• Lead training for all electrical installation techs.

Cross-Functional Responsibilities

• Maintain a strong technical working relationship with all Sr. Product Engineers; organizational reporting to Operations does not change the role’s authority over shared electrical architecture, standards, schematics, harness engineering, and electrical validation requirements.
• All Sr. Product Engineers on product electrical requirements and integration.
• Manufacturing Engineering and the harness department on process capability, tooling, fixtures, and test.
• Quality on electrical validation, failure analysis, compliance evidence, and corrective actions.
• Supply Chain on electrical suppliers, components, alternates, and technical approvals.
• Service on diagnostics, field failures, and serviceability improvements.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, mechatronics, electromechanical engineering, or closely related discipline; equivalent directly relevant experience considered.
• Typically, 5-8+ years of electrical systems engineering experience in vehicles, RVs, marine, industrial equipment, energy systems, or other complex manufactured products.
• Strong capability in wiring schematics, harness design, DC power systems, batteries, charging, protection, grounding, and electrical troubleshooting.
• Experience with Victron custom power systems, lithium battery systems, inverters/chargers, solar, CAN/communications, and AC integration highly desirable.
• Practical manufacturing engineering experience with harness assembly, fixtures, test equipment, error-proofing, and production quality.

What Success Looks Like

• Electrical architecture becomes standardized, documented, and scalable across brands.
• Electrical and harness-related production defects and field failures decline.
• Advanced power systems are developed with disciplined safety and validation.
• Harness manufacturing is repeatable, testable, efficient, and well-tooled.
• Brand teams receive strong electrical expertise without duplicating electrical roles.

Operating principle : Own the electrical ecosystem from schematic to harness station to field performance.