Electrical Design Engineer - Renewable Energy, Johannesburg

Research and Development

• Conduct research on technical trends, applications, and battery functionality to the direction that product development takes
• Develop new product concepts in line with customer and market demand
• Develop and implement improvement initiatives on existing products Product Design
• Guide the early-stage product development process by producing high level designs and prototypes as per product development process
• Complete detailed designs for new products and ensure that technical documentation is accurate and complete
• Participate in design reviews and collaborate with the other teams to improve design
• Develop all the necessary documentation to prepare products for production including product test results, usability results, product blueprints, wiring guidelines, Spec Sheets, etc.
• Ensure all technical documentation is completed in-line with design requirements, international standards, and local legislation
• Design the manufacturing/assembly process in line with the design of the products
• Validate model-based designs using desktop simulation packages
• implement requirements using MATLAB/Simulink/State flow
• Interact with other teams to develop controls requirements
• Develop and maintain design documentation
• Support tools development, compiler setup, static analysis, and software configuration management
• Support failure mode analysis of the various hardware features and failure mode management strategies
• Develop design specifications based on requirements.
• Support Worst Case Circuit Analysis and Schematic Reviews with BMS supplier.
• Handle multiple tasks and responsibilities

Process and Quality

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date production BOM, wiring, etc to ensure product and component traceability
• Adhere to full product design and related processes to ensure maintains its process certification

Requirements:

• B.Sc/B.Eng Electrical Engineering
• Minimum 2 years' experience in electrical design
• Proficient in electronic design software i.e Altium designer, Proteus, AutoCAD, SKM
• Simulation experience with MATLAB/Simulink advantageous
• Experience designing and developing embedded systems
• Good understanding of power electronics and power converters
• Good understanding of C Programming
• Good understanding of communication protocols i.e., CAN, RS485, Modbus
• Electronic hardware testing experience (advantageous)
• 1 to 2-year experience in PLC/Controller Programming
• Experience in energy storage design and development will be an advantage