AddressControl Techniques
We take care of the world’s motion.
We provide AC, DC, and Servo drive solutions for everything from heavy industry to theatre productions, end-to-end production lines, and everything in between.
Our precision-engineered drives are designed to optimise both performance and productivity, creating essential motion toward a more efficient future.
As part of Nidec, the world’s largest electric motor company, we make the world spin smarter and faster.
As a global business, operating for over 50 years, we have grown into a thriving business, now operating in over 30 countries.
We pride ourselves on our people and we look for those continuously striving for excellence with the ambition to achieve success.
Summary of Role:
We are looking to hire an enthusiastic senior Power Electronics Engineer for our R&D department.
The key responsibilities of this role are to design, develop and implement Power Electronics and auxiliary circuits.
This includes all technical disciplines required to deliver these circuits including component evaluation, circuit analysis and simulations, thermal and mechanical design, PCB review with consideration for manufacturing requirements. The role requires working as part of a larger team on significant projects or taking on smaller design challenges independently as and when required.
The successful candidate will join a multiskilled team in a fast-paced environment meaning development opportunities are always available.
If this sounds like a challenge you would be interested in keep reading.
The successful candidate’s main responsibilities will include:
- Solid understanding of Power Electronics.
- Creation of new designs and new product specifications
- Design of critical power components.
- Design and develop analogue, digital, electronic circuits, and systems for Power Electronics.
- To implement designs, which meet agreed functional design requirements and conform to international EMC and Safety requirements and regulations.
- Participate in product design reviews.
- Interface with external suppliers.
- Working to agreed timescales & project plans.
- Daily interaction with engineers from multiple disciplines to ensure solutions are a good fit with the drive architecture.
- Preparing concise and clear technical documentation and reports.
- Presenting, discussing, and justifying design concepts and ideas.
- Contribute to technical design reviews, constructively critique, and challenge others’ designs.
- Guiding and supporting other Development Engineers
- Managing and facilitating type test meetings plus developing test equipment
Required Qualifications and Experience:
Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree (MEng) in Power Electronics.
- Have an awareness and desire to explore emerging technology in the field, innovating ways to incorporate that into designs and products.
- Chartered Engineer.
Experience:
- Must understand power electronic devices, topologies, and control systems.
- Have used simulation tools (e.g., PLECS, Saber, Simetrix, Pspice or Mathlab Simulink simulators)
- Ability to build prototypes, experiment on systems and bench test.
- Have a working knowledge of planning tools and apply planning theory to their work.
- Will help to plan sections of projects.
Benefits:
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to this, we will offer opportunities for growth, varied career paths, exciting challenges, and a culture of inclusion that celebrates diversity.
Control Techniques will offer you a comprehensive benefits package including but not limited to:
- Competitive salaries based on experience and the current market rates.
- 25 days AL + Bank Holiday.
- Additional day off for your birthday
- 5% matched pension.
- EV and cycle-to-work schemes.
- Vouchers & discounts programme.
- A whole host of additional benefits.
