Senior Designer at ABB

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Creates / reviews complete project documentation for conformity, safety, and quality assurance.
• Reviews, adjust design as necessary based on output of design to meet the contractual obligations.
• Optimizes designs to ensure compliance to updated IEC and SANS standards, incorporating new products, components, and functionalities.
• Support technology transfers for new portfolio within the 3 product groups (PAIS, P & SGIS and S&P).
• Develop improvement in processes and design based on analyzing all RCA’s per quarter.
• Lean design the basis of engineering operations.
• Seeks feedback from customer to drive and deliver improvement of technical solutions.
• Contributes to preparation of specific aspects of design assignments to meet the contractual obligations while adhering to relevant standards, safety, and quality.

Technical leadership and knowledge sharing

• Applies Advance Design Thinking / Design for Excellence concepts in projects.
• Performs Project Peer-Reviews utilizes checklists to perform design verification according to applicable standards and engineering guidelines.
• Actively contributes and shares experiences in workshops pertaining to engineering design, tools and processes.
• Shares best practices Lessons-Learned documentation across different projects.
• Creates / reviews standard processes and tools to promote the reuse of technical solutions innovation and productivity in the team.
• Ensures design tools (EPLAN P8) usage to promote innovation and productivity.
• Conduct and complete RCA reports on electrical design issues or customer CCRP’s.
• You will be required from time to time to go to site to do the investigations.

Risk and opportunity management

• Assesses and addresses technical risk and opportunities with Tendering and PM.
• Reports and conduct / safety / quality / program / cost issues to Project Manager along with recommendations, for resolution.
• Ensures Bill of Material (BOM) for the project meets contractual obligations; and project gross margin requirements by not generating
• Project Left-Over Material (PLOM).
• Conduct RCA if there is PLOM.
• Design Change are captured and approval given before implantation.
• Identifies and implements variation requests to support contract claims based on the approval from Project Manager.
• Create work plans and cost estimates for the portfolio of projects in consultation with respective project mangers and ensures quality deliverables on time at target cost.
• Assist planning during unavailable time to update planning schedule, follow up with suppliers and buyers on material ordered.
• Release projects to production after confirmation that 95% of material is available.
• Prepares RFQ’s to meet contractual requirements and provides technical evaluation of supplier proposals.
• Collaborates with the Supply Chain function and the Project Managers.
• Together with supply chain lead cost savings projects.
• Coordinates with Manufacturing and Testing function to ensure the designs are appropriately manufactured / staged and tested.
• Ensures the engineering deliverables as built are updated.
• Ensures all design process documentation is complete during the manufacturing stage and after completion.
• Responsible to ensure all internal testing are completed and functional before product is released from factory.
• As responsible person (ECSA) registered you need to sign of the design and completion of all testing.
• Coordinates with Commissioning / Service functions to ensure the designs are appropriately installed and commissioned (if applicable as part of the contract).
• Ensures the engineering deliverables are updated post installation and commissioning
• You will join a high performing team, where you will be able to thrive.

Qualifications for the role

• Must have a Degree in Electrical Engineering Heavy current.
• Switchgear design background.
• Strong E-Plan background, strong technical ability and engineering principals.
• ECSA registered will be advantageous.
• SAP knowledge, create accurate BOM's
• Preference will be given to employment equity candidates.