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SVP of Electrical Engineering

SVP of Electrical Engineering

industrial_energy_operationsElectrical Engineering · E2 — E2 — Senior Director (Executive) · Executive

Executive leader overseeing the entire electrical engineering function, including power systems, high-voltage infrastructure, and enterprise engineering strategy.

Median pay · United States · annual

$322,728 USD

+90.4% vs E1 on this ladder

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$237,064$439,348

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What this role is

Executive leader overseeing the entire electrical engineering function, including power systems, high-voltage infrastructure, and enterprise engineering strategy. At the Senior Director (Executive) (E2) level, the role owns multiple functions or a major area, multi-function strategy and risk, and drives major-area outcomes. Leads function leaders.

What this level does

  • Leads multiple engineering functions or divisions through VPs — extending beyond electrical design into the adjacent development, production, and equipment-lifecycle functions that depend on it
  • Makes cross-functional trade-off decisions on abstract, high-consequence issues (platform architecture, make-vs-buy on electrical subsystems, production ramp risk) where a wrong call can impact program viability
  • Consolidates and arbitrates technical estimation and resource plans across divisions, resolving contention between electrical engineering and the installation/production functions it feeds
  • Establishes the enterprise-wide standard for how electrical designs are evaluated for technical adequacy and compatibility, harmonizing quality gates across divisions
  • Negotiates critical technical and commercial matters with top company leaders and strategic customers on the electrical engineering portfolio
Knowledge applied
Cross-functional application of engineering knowledge across electrical, development, and production functions — reasons about abstract, high-consequence platform and architecture trade-offs, not single-discipline execution.
Complexity & problem solving
Solves abstract cross-functional problems where decisions may impact company viability, such as make-vs-buy on electrical subsystems or production-ramp risk across divisions.
Collaboration & interaction
Leads multiple functions/divisions through VPs (E1–E2); negotiates critical technical and commercial matters with top company leaders and strategic customers.
Typical experience
15+ years, including strategic leadership of engineering functions or significant business units.

Skills at this level

Electrical engineering portfolio strategy
Sets the multi-year technical direction for the design and development of electrical equipment, systems, and the structures or facilities that house them, aligning platform and architecture choices with enterprise business needs.
Engineering technical-standards governance
Establishes and enforces the technical standards, design guidelines, and quality gates that the electrical engineering discipline builds to, ensuring consistency across teams, divisions, and business units.
Technical-adequacy evaluation at scale
Owns the enterprise regime for evaluating project work to ensure effectiveness, technical adequacy, and compatibility in the resolution of complex electrical engineering problems.
Engineering estimation and resource governance
Directs how the function determines resource, size, cost, time, and material requirements for electrical development and production projects, and defends those estimates in executive budget decisions.
Installation and production direction
Governs the direction of installation, industrial-production, and equipment maintenance/repair activities that flow from electrical designs, arbitrating contention between engineering and production functions.
Enterprise technical risk ownership
Holds the enterprise position on electrical-equipment reliability, safety, and production capability where systemic design or quality failure carries critical strategic and corporate consequence.
Board and external technical representation
Represents the electrical engineering discipline to the board, CEO, industry bodies, standards participation, and major customers on the portfolio's direction, risk, and investment case.
Cross-functional executive negotiation
Negotiates critical technical and commercial matters on the electrical engineering portfolio with top company leaders and strategic customers, resolving high-consequence cross-functional trade-offs.
CAD/CAE capability investment
Directs investment in and organizational adoption of computer-assisted engineering/design toolchains used to perform electrical engineering design and analysis at scale.
Engineering knowledge advancement
Sponsors the review of engineering principles and theories to further the field's knowledge within the enterprise and connects that advancement to long-range business direction.

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