Job Description

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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.