Electrical Design Engineer

Comate Engineering & Design; Vlaams-Brabant; Sur place; EUR 38 000 - 48 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Team environment

End-to-end product design

Hybrid office in Leuven/Ghent + home/0

Résumé du poste

Comate Engineering & Design is seeking a junior electrical design engineer to join a multidisciplinary team. You will help develop innovative products and machinery, focusing on electrical control panels, hardware selection, and safety compliance.

You will work with Bechhoff TwinCAT or similar PLC platforms, read schematics, and support commissioning and testing. The role offers hybrid work options in Leuven/Ghent with on-site and home office flexibility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Automation or similar field.
• Hands-on experience with automation projects is a plus.
• Ability to read electrical schematics and interpret electrical drawings.

Responsabilités

• Collaborate with customers to define clear electrical requirements.
• Develop electrical schematics and assist on PLC programming and testing.
• Support machine commissioning, FAT/SAT, and on-site handover.

Connaissances

Electrical design

EPLAN

TwinCAT PLC

Schematic reading

Hardware selection

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Automation

Outils

EPLAN

TwinCAT

Description du poste

Do you want to help build tomorrow's world? Welcome to Comate, where we develop innovative high-tech hardware from scratch for pioneering companies across all possible industries. We develop and integrate tailor‑made automation solutions: from PLC systems and control cabinets to robots, cobots, vision‑guided robotics and advanced gripper design.

Let’s see what kind of projects you can expect: Industry & machinery | Comate | Engineering & Design | Giving ideas the best chance

We currently are looking for a talented and passionate junior electrical design engineer like you, who can develop new, disruptive products together with our clients. Do you only strive for excellence and do you want to grow your career in step with our company? Then perhaps you're the M/F/X we're looking for.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team of engineers and designers on the development of innovative products and machinery. The aim of our passionate team is to cooperate with our clients in order to develop a unique product that is more advanced than anything that is currently available on the market. As a junior electrical design engineer, you will support different automation and machinery projects.

What does this mean?

As a junior electrical design engineer, you are responsible for:

Safety & technical analysis

• Collaborating with customers to define clear requirements
• Advising the team on hardware selection (sensors, actuators, motor drives, etc.)
• Analysis and implementation of functional safety
• Designing according to general electrical safety standards

Electrical & automation engineering

• Creating electrical schematics in EPLAN
• Support on programming PLC environments (TwinCAT or similar PLC platforms)
• Performing I/O testing to ensure correct behaviour
• Ordering components and following up purchases
• Wiring control cabinets and machinery

Machine commissioning

• Setting up, configuring and testing industrial installations
• Supporting machine bring‑up on the workshop floor
• Final validation and delivery of machines according to FAT/SAT principles

Requirements

Sounds great! Am I the inventor you are looking for? Let's see:

You are fascinated by technology, engineering, and robotics.

You have a bachelor degree in Electrical Automation or alike.

A first experience in automation is a plus.

You have a good understanding of electrical control panels and you are able to read electrical schematics.

You have knowledge of Beckhoff TwinCAT or other PLC platforms.

You are very hands‑on and pragmatic.

You are flexible, you have no problems with adapting new plans. Product development is fun, but also unpredictable.

You can handle pressure because honestly, we work hard.

Benefits

• You will be joining a team of enthusiastic and passionate colleagues
• You will be working on the design and development of truly unique products and solutions, end-to-end. Yes, you can be an inventor! There is nothing more trilling that seeing your work out there on the market
• You will be able to work in a cool office right in the heart of the vibrant city of Leuven or Ghent, combined with home office or onsite work
• You will get an attractive salary package with a lot of extra benefits
• And yes, Comate is an award-winning company! We want to excell in what we do, it's no walk in the park but our hard work pays off