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Location

Bridgend, Bridgend | United Kingdom

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Job description

Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Electrical Design Engineer to join a well-established company based in Bridgend, South Wales. The company invest in their employees and have a strong team in place. You can expect to achieve competitive salary (depending on skill set and experience).

The Role
Reporting into the Engineering Manager, your primary role will be to undertake the design, development and testing of electrical control systems for a range of industrial laser system products and bespoke machinery, including wire marking and stripping systems. This involves the selection of appropriate control hardware based upon the most cost effective, scalable control platform.

The Candidate

• Educated to a minimum of HND or preferably Degree level in Electrical and / or Electronic engineering. Other candidates will be considered with relevant skills and experience.
• Solid electrical / controls / automation engineering background developing complex machinery or systems. At least 5 years of experience designing machinery and control panels using an electrical drafting package is essential.
• The candidate will be experienced in the full product life cycle from initial specification, through development, build, test, deployment and product support (local and remote).
• The candidate will have experience of travelling to customer locations for new system installation, troubleshooting and upgrades as applicable (though this rarely occurs).
• New product introduction: design, build, commission and test.
• Electrical Machine / Control Panel Design with reference to risk assessment and applicable safety standards like 12100, 60204 and 13849.
• Safety performance levels.
• Electrical drawing package experience (preferably ePLAN).
• Electrical Machine Design for build and procurement – parts list, wire schedules, cable schedules etc.
• Application of Servo Amplifier / Stepper Drive Systems
• Application of DC / AC Drive systems
• Specification of sensor types including proximity sensors, through beam etc.
• Creation of Controls Specifications – Functional Design Specification / IO Specification

Useful Skills (Advantageous, but not essential):

• Maintain / support / modify / debug existing software for PLCs and motion controllers including Mitsubishi, TRIO and Yaskawa.
• Practical experience electrical build.
• Diagnostics – familiarity with use of oscilloscopes and other test equipment.
• EMC considerations – Electrical Design.
• Industrial laser control / applications.
• Factory automation.
• MS Word / Excel.
• Exposure to optocouplers and pulse-width modulation.
• Robotics and vision systems.

JK Recruitment
Please be aware that we receive a high volume of interest for each of our roles and we cannot guarantee we will be in touch if you are not shortlisted for the position. At JK Recruitment we aim to provide the best possible opportunity to take your career forward, we will be in touch within the next seven days if your application is successful. Please continue to visit to keep up to date with further vacancies. We regret that this client is not prepared to sponsor work permit or work permit transfer applications. Candidates must be able to prove their eligibility to work in the UK

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