Senior Electrical Development Engineer

Functional area:  Engineering
Country:  China
City:  Qingdao
Company name:  Edwards Technologies Vacuum Engineering
Date of posting:  May 28, 2025

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Your Role

A Senior Electrical Development Engineer will typically lead electrical design in creation of new products and maintaining existing products under guidance of an Engineering manager, Team leader, Project Leader through the electrical design, development, testing, commissioning and integration phases.

He will also be the first point of contact for electrical technical support once the product is launched for series production.

Responsibilities involve execution of tasks to achieve electrical compliance to the product requirements specifications, fitness for purpose, electrical legislative and regulatory standards and product safety and reliability.

Support marketing, operations and aftermarket electrical technical questions and issues related to existing products.

 
To succeed, you will need  

  • Lead all the electrical activities
  • Acting as a member of an (international) project team working to develop and commercialize new products with a focus on electrical design. The complete lifecycles of the product will be experienced from concept selection, alpha product build and development, compliance testing, pre-production, production ramp and knowledge transfer post-launch to the Product Support Group.
  • To support with electrical expertise the implementation of new ideas and initiatives, contribute to the design and development of sub systems and/or pumps and/or pumping systems. For example design of electrical cabinet with controller & inverter.
  • Responsible for defined aspects of electrical product definition, demonstration of fitness for purpose and product electrical safety and legislative readiness for a global market.
  • To undertake defined aspects of the electrical verification and validation test programme, legislative and reliability testing
  • To use risk management tools such as DFMEA to minimize potential electrical failure modes
  • To reduce time to market by precision of task delivery
  • To efficiently support the customer (your own R&D team or other departments like marketing, operations, aftermarket,…) with questions and issues related to electrical design of existing products.
  • Preferable min. 5 year’s experience in product development and technical support in a manufacturing industry, ideally relating to rotating machinery or engine or pump manufacture.
  • Technical knowledge of and experience with motor, inverter, controller, electrical cabinet assembly incl. UL design, system software design and qualification of rotating machinery (vacuum pumps, compressors, centrifugal pumps systems) according to global standards & directives is an advantage.
  • Knowledge of manufacturing processes and technologies.
  • Practical experience of experimental techniques, DFMEA’s, electrical reliability testing, the process of product design and the introduction of new products to production.
  • Fluency in English and Chinese is required.
  • Good experience and usage level of the key MS office packages, e.g MS Excel, Words, Powerpoint
  • Basic knowledge of local and global electrical standards (IEC EN60034-1, EN60034-30-1, low voltage directive 2014/35/EU, EMC compatibility 2014/30/EC, CSA/UL/cUL, CCC … )
  • Self-management of tasks and their delivery ·
  • Grasp of technical matters with evidence of speed, accuracy, innovation and quality of work.
  • Accuracy in data collection and results gather
  • Good communications capability ·
  • The ability to carry out tasks correctly, to agreed timescales and quality standards with supervision.
  • The capability to correctly diagnose and successfully resolve technical problems ·
  • Open flexible mindset. Able to adjust to changing task requirements

 

In return, we offer you

Work in a global, diverse and dynamic environment

Being able to make the difference and leave a footprint

Freedom with accountability.

Opportunity to network and exchange with different stakeholders.

Development and training opportunities

Having fun and celebrate successes.

City
Qingdao

 

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