Power Electronics Engineer
Cheshire, United Kingdom
25-07-2024
Job Type
Permanent
Emp Type
Full Time
Industry
IT
Functional Expertise
Countries
Salary Type
Annual
Salary
Negotiable
Job Description
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Power Electronics Engineer is required for a Design and Development solutions organisation company, based in a popular Cheshire location. The Engineering team is being expanded to develop and mature a portfolio of Power Exchangers to deploy into global power grid systems.
Responsibilities:
- Providing technical expertise for the power electronics, and interfaces to the control and data monitoring systems
- System level knowledge and expertise in the product and it’s applications
- Understanding customer, market and regulatory requirements for power distribution grid interfaces
- Ideas generation for new products covering all areas of expertise
- Design of power electronics systems to meet product requirements.
- Creating component level modelling of the power electronic system and its interface to the power grid
- Writing tests for inclusion in the test plan for the power electronics
- Working with the team and certification agencies to gain product approval
- Member of the design review team for power electronics system and its sub systems
- Design of high-power filters, transformer interfaces and IGBT/ MOSFET systems
- Design of gate driver and control architecture and measurement circuitry
- Experience of PCB layout design and manufacturing support
- Performing product testing of power electronic systems at 1 MVA and above
- Expertise of power electronics design, analogue and digital systems, embedded system, control engineering, system simulation, semiconductor switching devices and thermal design,
- Design of products to meet electromagnetic compatibility standards
- Experience of NI equipment, LabVIEW and python scripting would be a distinct advantage
Skills:
- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant Engineering discipline: Electrical, Electronic, Software
- Technical decision making and influencing skills
- Experience in simulation tools i.e. Matlab / Simulink, PSPICE
- Requirements capture and management
- Experience in formal methodologies and V-cycle for Systems Engineering
- Experience designing and certifying Safety Critical Systems (SIL 1 + )
- Experience of electronics and electrical development tools, techniques and methodologies
- Experience of designing microprocessor-based systems
- Knowledge of the application of power electronic systems and power convertors
- Using KiCad to create Schematics and PCB designs
- Using AutoCad Electrical to create schematics and wiring diagrams
- Knowledge of LV and MV power networks and their topologies would be a distinct advantage
This is an exciting opportunity for a Power Electronics Engineer to join a Design and Development solutions organisation based in Chesire. If you’re interested, please apply with your CV.