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.