With over 140 years of Swiss engineering heritage, Sécheron Hasler Group is a global leader in high-power electrical and electronic equipment. Our solutions power railways, renewable energy, DC and AC networks, and industrial systems worldwide trusted for their precision, reliability, and innovation.
Behind every great innovation is a strong foundation. Our engineering teams, spanning the Group, enable excellence across all our operations. If you are driven by impact and collaboration, this is where your contribution powers global success.
To support the expansion of our team, we are seeking to hire in Bangalore a dynamic and motivated PLC Software Design Engineer – Traction Power Systems
Requirements
As a PLC Software Design Engineer, you will be responsible for the end-to-end software development lifecycle for Traction Power System customer projects. You will ensure that automation and protection solutions meet technical specifications, safety standards, and customer requirements.
· Project Initiation: Actively participate in internal and external project kick-off meetings to define software requirements and project scope.
· Technical Review: Analyze tender documents and customer specifications against company standards and cost calculations to ensure technical feasibility and alignment.
· Software Development: Perform comprehensive PLC and HMI engineering, including the creation of logic flowcharts and PLC programming.
· Application Design: Develop and configure software applications for PLCs and specialized Protection Relays, and potentially HMI interfaces.
· Testing & Validation: Provide critical support to the production team during functional testing and lead Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) with customers when required.
· Field & Commissioning Support: Support the commissioning team and provide remote or on-site troubleshooting for live projects at the request of the Project Manager.
· Quality & Corrective Action: Investigate and implement corrective actions resulting from Non-Conformance Reports and returned goods.
· Lifecycle Management: Follows the processes used by the company for application and software designs, ensuring all project documentation and code are systematically archived.
· Client Communication: Provide technical responses and expertise to customer inquiries at the request of the Project Manager.
· Knowledge Sharing: Interface with global teams to share knowledge and lessons learnt.
Candidate needs to demonstrate flexibility in his/her working hours to ensure effective collaboration with production sites and international stakeholders across different time zones.
Qualification and Requirements
Skill:
Sécheron SA is focused on railway industry, and industrial segments manufacturing high power electric equipment. We design, manufacture, test and deliver products and solutions covering the following scope
Electrical Safety Solutions
Sécheron SA offers an extensive range of products, solutions and services dedicated to the switching and protection of high voltage traction and auxiliary equipment installed on railway and mass transit vehicles. Our ranges of DC and AC circuit breakers, contactors and disconnecting switches, as well as master controllers and wheel flange lubricators, are used on locomotives, conventional and high-speed trains, EMU's, metros, light rail vehicles, tramways and trolley buses.
Traction Power Systems
Sécheron SA offers a complete range of components, solutions, systems and services for DC Traction Substations powering and protecting mass transit and railway networks. With more than 60 years experience in this activity, Sécheron has developed a unique expertise making our equipment to be used in most of the major cities worldwide operating metros and light rails networks, as well as in countries equipped with DC railway lines. Starting from the delivery of individual components such as DC circuit-breakers, disconnect switches or protection and control devices, Sécheron supplies up to the complete DC substation, including transformer-rectifier groups, DC switchgear, regenerative inverter/energy storage systems and other panels. Supported by a strong and expertise project management and engineering team, we also offer a complete range of services to guarantee the quality and performances of the project and equipment.
