Tasks and Qualifications:
Specific Responsibilities - Electrical Design:
- Interpret design input information to produce control system designs.
- Ensure systems designed and supplied are CE Compliant to the Machinery Directive.
- Produce design and manufacturing programmes.
- Produce all associated documentation, including, but not limited to, design calculations, design specifications, operation and maintenance manuals, and test specifications.
- Design and produce electrical layout and schematic drawings using appropriate CAD tools.
- Procurement of electrical control panels and liaise with suppliers on technical matters.
- Procurement of electrical installation services and liaise with suppliers on technical matters.
- Liaise with electrical installation supervisors and subcontractors.
General Responsibilities:
- Liaise with Project Sales and Project Engineers during project phase.
- Liaise with Project Managers, Customer and sub-contractors during order execution phase.
- Liaise with purchasing departments.
- Provide technical information to any department so entitled, i.e. Mechanical Design, Projects Sales, Service, Spares.
- Maintain and use wherever possible, standard product information for the execution of orders.
- Where necessary to develop special and new standard solutions to suit specific projects and new markets.
- Innovate wherever possible to improve our delivered product to the end customer (e.g. reduced price, reduced time-scale, improved functionality).
- Applies advanced skills to resolve complex problems not covered by existing procedures or practices independently.
- Maintain and improve upon personal skills related to the position, through experience and training.
- Comply with the company policy as defined in the Staff Handbook, Safety Manual, and Quality Assurance Manual.
- Promote personal and business continuous improvement and development of processes to achieve improved time cost and quality or project delivery.
- Demonstrates significant knowledge of organization's business practices and issues faced and contributes to problem resolution of those issues.
Knowledge & Experience Required:
- Proven experience as Controls Hardware Engineer, Electrical Design Engineer or similar role.
- Essential: HNC/HND in Electrical Engineering.
- Desirable: Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline.
- Extensive proven hands-on experience working within an industrial automation environment.
- Experience working with E-Plan, AutoCAD, MS Package.
- A working understanding of Electrical and Electronic technical manuals & drawings.
- Good understanding of distributed control systems and the principles of industrial networks used to connect and integrate control systems.
- Understanding and use of relevant design requirements such as the Machinery Directive and its harmonised standards
- Ideally experienced in SISTEMA (Safety Integrity Software Tool for the Evaluation of Machine Applications)
- Knowledge or experience of EN 60204-1, EN 13849-1, EN 13850, EN 619, EN 12100, EN 60364
- Ability to support site-based work both on projects in the UK and the Northern European Region.