Rail-Ability Ltd, established in 1998, has become the industry leader in designing, developing, and manufacturing bespoke road-rail plant machinery. Our award-winning products are renowned for their inbuilt safety, reliability and performance.
The Role
As an electrical design engineer, you will have two key responsibilities: performing detailed electrical designs and keeping the company’s electrical practices, procedures and equipment up to date with its growing ambitions.
Reporting to the chief designer, you will be a valued member of the mechatronics department. The mechatronics department is a small, close-knit, multidisciplinary team.
Responsible for all aspects of electrical and control systems development from the initial specification through detailed design and production. You will join the department at a senior level and influence how the company develops its electrical practices and procedures. You will also be performing detailed electrical and controls designs - most of the detailed design is in-house as very little is outsourced.
Primarily a technical role involving technical leadership.
Your day-to-day responsibilities as an electrical engineer will be:
- Identifying and driving product improvements within your area of expertise.
- Developing the company’s electrical practices and procedures. For example, identifying new test equipment and overseeing its deployment.
- Maintaining knowledge of industry good practices. Ensuring the company’s practices keep pace with technological developments.
- Leading design projects for all electrical design aspects and ensuring good practice (IEC 60204).
- Contributing to functional safety compliance (ISO 13849, IEC 61508).
- Identifying, reviewing and approving electrical, control and instrumentation (EC&I) design requirements.
- Producing high-level and detailed extra-low voltage (ELV) designs (12/24V).
- Reviewing and verifying designs.
- Deriving design tasks within a project. Overseeing junior engineers performing these tasks.
- Mentoring junior engineers, and identifying development and training opportunities.
- Contributing to PLC software specification and design.
- Ensuring all deliverables technically follow relevant British, European, International and Railway Standards.
Essential Person Criteria
- A degree in electrical engineering, electronic engineering or a related discipline..
- Minimum of 1 year of relevant experience.
- Strong understanding of electrical fundamentals and their application for commercial solutions.
- Demonstrated experience in professional ELV design, including adherence to IEC 60204 or similar.
- Understanding of electrical calculations applicable to ELV systems.
- Experience in designing safety-related control systems (ISO 13849 or IEC 61508)
- Demonstrated experience in instigating technical improvements.
- Experience developing control systems from initial specification through detailed design and into production.
- Communicate complex electrical concepts to other internal technical specialists.
- Strong hands-on experience with electrical/electronic test equipment and a good understanding of its operation.
- Able to thrive through autonomy within a matrix organisation structure that encourages innovation.
- Systematic approach to problem-solving and good attention to detail.
The Ideal Candidate (In addition to the essential person criteria)
- Formal functional safety qualification
- Knowledge of PLC programming.
- Familiar with controller area network (CAN).
- Experience with packages such as MATLAB/Simulink.
- Professional Chartership or similarly registered, or be working towards it.
- Experience in off-highway machinery.
- Experience in operating in a tightly regulated industry
Benefits
Rail-Ability offers a highly competitive salary and benefits package; opportunities to progress, flexible working hours; home-working option; free on-site parking; mentoring and training programmes and staff discount at partnered restaurants.
Hours of work are 42.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
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