About the position
We are currently working with a large and successful Hong Kong-based materials science group. They develop machines tools to implement advanced additive and subtractive manufacturing processes for large-area and printed electronic devices. Key applications are semiconductor packaging, smart windows, PV panels, touch sensors and bio-sensors.
Job Responsibilities:
Collaboration: Work with/as technical lead, mechanical engineers and other stakeholders on overall specifications and integration requirements.
Product Development: Create new or improve current sub-system module designs.
Automation Design: Create concept for industrial automation, select suppliers, create mechanical and electrical integration specification (when necessary).
Electrical Design: Responsible for entire system electrical design with integration of specialist sub-systems. Produce drawings and supporting documentation.
Standards and Regulatory Compliance: Identify the applicable standards and regulations, compile documentation for and assess CE compliance.
Electrical Assembly: provide standards, instruction and supervision to build team engineers and outsourced suppliers.
Safety System Design and Testing: Contribute to risk assessment. Design the safety system and system test procedure. Test the system and create test report.
Documentation: contribute to system manuals.
Supplier Qualification and Management: Identify criteria by which suppliers are selected. Assess and rate suppliers and products. Audit suppliers during execution of orders to ensure specification, schedule and budget is met.
PLC Systems: Design and write PLC programs for automation control or manage outsourced PLC contractors (when necessary).
Occasional travel may be needed to other locations.
Experience Required:
Degree in electrical engineering.
8 years field experience, building and testing machinery and control systems.
8 years electrical design experience.
Full knowledge and understanding of applicable directives and standards.
Safety system design, programming and testing (PILZ preferred).
Full knowledge and understanding of electrical test procedures.
High level of quality in documentation.
Capability to innovate to improve efficiency of processes and designs.
Team player with good communications skills.
Proficiency in AutoCAD.
Experience with Motion control systems.
Experience in specifying PLC hardware, writing PLC software.