Latest Job Opportunities at Schneider Electric

Design and Development:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and develop electrical systems, products, or components within electrical distribution or transmission.
• Create detailed schematics, drawings, and specifications for electrical assemblies.
• Conduct feasibility studies and simulations to ensure the viability of designs.

Testing and Troubleshooting:

• Perform testing, calibration, and validation of electrical systems.
• Identify and troubleshoot technical issues in the systems' electrical aspects.
• Propose and implement solutions to optimize performance and reliability.

Assembly and Installation:

• Participate in the installation and commissioning of equipment, ensuring proper functionality.

Maintenance and Repair:

• Conduct routine inspections of electrical systems to ensure proper operation.
• Diagnose and repair faults, malfunctions, or breakdowns in equipment.
• Develop and implement preventive maintenance strategies

Documentation:

• Maintain comprehensive documentation, including design records, test reports, and maintenance logs.
• Update technical manuals and user guides for electro-mechanical systems.
• Generate bill of materials (BOMs), specifications, and documentation required for the manufacturing and assembly processes.

Collaboration:

• Collaborate with Electrical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, and other team members to ensure seamless integration of components.
• Communicate effectively with Project Managers and other stakeholders to provide updates on progress and challenges.

Qualifications

What qualifications will make you successful in this role?

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electro-Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• 5-10 years of experience designing power systems and control solutions.
• Proven experience in designing, developing, and maintaining electro-mechanical systems.
• Proficiency in CAD software (3D drawings, AutoCAD Electrical & Inventor) for schematic design and modelling.
• EPlan electric P8 or similar will be an added advantage.
• Strong knowledge of electrical circuits, substation designs, and mechanical components.
• Hands-on experience with testing and measurement equipment.
• Familiarity with industry standards and regulations relating to engineering practices.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Effective communication and teamwork abilities.
• Experience with mobile substation/skid designs, finite element analysis, and ETAP studies.
• Knowledge of mechatronics principles.
• Prior experience in manufacturing or consulting environment or related field of work.
• Professional registration with ECSA or related engineering bodies will be an added advantage.
• The ideal candidate would be an Electrical Design Engineer with experience or knowledge of Electrical design.

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Your Role – Magic happens when you bring great people together!

• Technical Expertise: Demonstrate a deep understanding of Schneider Electric's microgrid systems.
• Solution Development: Develop and implement cost-effective solutions that optimize customer systems and cater to their specific needs across Africa.
• Technical Proposals: Prepare and present technical proposals and system architectures tailored to customer requirements.
• Business Development: Contribute to sales efforts by promoting and designing microgrid systems that deliver value to customers throughout Africa.
• Customer Engagement: Understand customer needs, position Schneider Electric's offerings within the market, and build strong relationships.
• Technical Support: Provide pre-sales and project execution support, including training on Schneider Electric's microgrid portfolio.
• Problem Resolution: Address post-sale issues promptly and effectively.
• Collaboration: Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to achieve project objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical or Electronics Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in energy distribution, control/automation (SCADA), software applications, communication, switchgear, protection design engineering, or system architecture.
• 3+ years of experience interacting with customers in various technical environments and leading technical conversations.
• Expertise in energy management across different segments.
• In-depth knowledge of microgrid systems, including battery energy storage, electrical distribution, and control systems.
• Strong connections within the power and grid (electrical utilities) industry in Africa.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Excellent command of English.

Preferred:

• Experience with renewable energy resources and their integration.
• Telecommunication experience.

Personal Attributes:

• Agility and adaptability.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Team-oriented mindset.
• Continuous learning approach.

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Your Role – Magic happens when you bring great people together!

• Define offer portfolio and product strategy based on knowledge of competitor activities (cluster and regional).
• Product portfolio management, including product strategy, positioning, road map, product launches, etc., to achieve profitable sales.
• Owns activity P&L for defined offer portfolio.
• Responsible for achieving top line (according to offer strategy), profitability (GM) and incremental price realisation (DP).
• Drive technology thought leadership through Sales, BD and a more extensive partner ecosystem.
• Aim for and achieve a higher Vitality index defined in the AMSP roadmap.
• Owns the AMSP process for the respective activity.
• Drive Demand generation for this business.
• Develop battle cards and animate strong sales enablement for the partner’s ecosystem.
• Inputs regional and global teams and participates in product evolution projects.
• Feedback to quality teams based on product performance in the field.
• Lead SIOP with the GSC team for the offering basket managed by the team.
• Large Team Management – building a team for high performance.

KPI’s:

• Strategy: you’ll build and execute, through your team, a product marketing strategy to help improve the success of our solutions in the market, responsible for the P&L of several product lines from top line & profitability.
• Management: lead, develop and inspire a team of product marketers.
• Product Champion: help inform the overall marketing strategy with valuable product marketing intelligence. Be the evangelist, internally and externally, for our full solutions set and monitor the performance of solutions to educate key stakeholders.
• Customer Research: build detailed persona’s and gain a deep understanding of the markets we serve to help inform sales and marketing activities.
• Competitor Intelligence: build and keep up to date a competitor comparison matrix. This intelligence is used to inform new product development, pricing strategies, and marketing tactics.
• Product Messaging: using customer research and competitor intelligence, develop product positioning and messaging, including differentiators and use cases.
• GTM: work closely with sales and channel marketing teams to create and support the go-to-market strategy.
• Stakeholder Management: work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders and regularly present to the board such as (Finance, Supply chain, CCC, etc...)

Qualifications

• Relevant technical qualification, e.g., BSc. Eng. or B-Tech in Electrical Engineering.
• Relevant Marketing or commercial qualification and/or MBA or similar postgraduate business qualification an advantage.
• 7+ years of experience in a similar industry.
• P&L management experience.
• Solid experience in Anglophone Market in sales, engineering or marketing roles.
• Knowledge of the South African market is advantageous.Knowledge of Schneider Electric Business (customers, products, etc.) is beneficial.

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Your Mission:

• We are seeking a skilled and dedicated Electro-Mechanical Engineer to join our team.
• The ideal candidate will have a strong background in electrical and mechanical engineering principles and the ability to design, develop, and maintain complex electromechanical systems.
• The candidate should be detail-oriented, innovative, and capable of working collaboratively in a dynamic environment.

Your Role – Magic happens when you bring great people together!

Design and Development:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and develop electro-mechanical systems, products, or components within electrical distribution or transmission.
• Create detailed schematics, drawings, and specifications for electro-mechanical assemblies.
• Conduct feasibility studies and simulations to ensure the viability of designs.

Testing and Troubleshooting:

• Perform testing, calibration, and validation of electro-mechanical systems.
• Identify and troubleshoot technical issues in systems' electrical and mechanical aspects.
• Propose and implement solutions to optimize performance and reliability.

Assembly and Installation:

• Participate in the installation and commissioning of equipment, ensuring proper functionality.

Maintenance and Repair:

• Conduct routine inspections of electro-mechanical systems to ensure proper operation.
• Diagnose and repair faults, malfunctions, or breakdowns in equipment.
• Develop and implement preventive maintenance strategies

Documentation:

• Maintain comprehensive documentation including design records, test reports, and maintenance logs.
• Update technical manuals and user guides for electro-mechanical systems.
• Generate bill of materials (BOMs), specifications, and documentation required for the manufacturing and assembly processes.

Collaboration:

• Collaborate with Electrical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, and other team members to ensure seamless integration of components.
• Communicate effectively with Project Managers and other stakeholders to provide updates on progress and challenges.

Qualifications

What qualifications will make you successful in this role?

• Bachelor's degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• 5-10 years of experience designing power systems and control solutions.
• Proven experience in designing, developing, and maintaining electro-mechanical systems.
• Proficiency in CAD software (3D drawings, AutoCAD Electrical & Inventor) for schematic design and modelling.
• EPlan electric P8 or similar will be an added advantage.
• Strong knowledge of electrical circuits, substation designs, and mechanical components.
• Hands-on experience with testing and measurement equipment.
• Familiarity with industry standards and regulations relating to engineering practices.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Effective communication and teamwork abilities.
• Experience with mobile substation/skid designs, finite element analysis, ETAP studies.
• Knowledge of mechatronics principles.
• Prior experience in manufacturing or consulting environment, or related field of work.
• Professional registration with ECSA or with related engineering bodies will be added advantage.
• The ideal candidate would be an Electrical Design Engineer with some experience or knowledge with Mechanical design.