Senior Electrical Designer - #178873

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This position reports to

Senior Engineering Manager

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to create, modify, and analyze the design of equipment, systems, or installations, including specifications for manufacturing, fabrication, or construction. Each day, you will optimize designs to meet updated standards and incorporate new products, components, and functionalities. You will also showcase your expertise by applying design thinking or design for excellence concepts in projects.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Power systems studies and control aspects (hardware and software) of high-power rectifier projects. It requires a good overall understanding of the entire electrical network and associated equipment.
• Develop the relevant engineering deliverables, such as, equipment purchases specifications, drawings, bill of material, electrical diagrams, test procedures, electrical studies and records.
• Creating standard processes and tools to promote the reuse of technical solutions, innovation, and productivity in the design team.
• Participate in factory acceptance tests at vendors facilities.
• The position requires successful completion of assigned projects on time and within budgetary constraints, in accordance with company policies and procedures.
  
  
  

Qualifications For The Role

• Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering with 3-5 years of relevant experience.
• Availability to travel in Canada and USA.
• Member of OIQ.
• Familiar with national codes and standards.
• Power system study tools experience (ETAP, Easy Power, Cyme, etc).
• E3 Zuken and/or AutoCAD experience is an asset.
• Software understanding and programming experience is an asset.
• Communicate effectively with customers, vendors and ABB personnel in English and French. French is required. English is also required to communicate with customers outside Quebec on a regular basis.
• Independent and proactive thinker.
• Possess a sense of urgency/drive for results.
  
  

More about us

ABB Installation Products Division (formerly Thomas&Betts),is the number one manufacturer of electrification products in North America with a 125-year history of providing innovation and customer- focused solutions for connecting and protecting electrical systems, as well as a unique differentiated medium voltage offering. Our products are used all around you, every day – orbiting the earth, working on Mars, on the fastest trains we ride, in the fastest cars of the world, crossing oceans, in factories producing your food, in the tallest buildings of the world, in the most modern hotels and in the walls of your home. With a portfolio of more than 200,000 products marketed under more than 38 premium brand names, our Division offerings are found wherever electricity is used.

We look forward to receiving your application. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com.

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