R&D Engineer – Power Electronics and System Drives. Coast Guard and Navy

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ABB is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve their performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 110,000 people. To the shipping industry, ABB offers an extensive portfolio of integrated marine systems and solutions that improve the flexibility, reliability, and energy efficiency of vessels. By coupling power, automation and advisory, proven fuel-efficient technologies and services that ensure maximum vessel uptime, ABB is in a unique position to improve the profitability of customers' business throughout the entire lifecycle of a fleet.

Marine & Ports is driving the transition towards a sustainable future. To successfully be the partner our customers chose to work with, we need to ensure sustainability both in our solutions and in our organization from a business perspective. Our customers increasingly seek solutions that provide greater efficiency, safety and reliability and prepare vessels for operations of today and tomorrow. This makes the transition even more exciting, as this drives us to constantly challenge our technology, solutions, and the way we operate.

ABB is looking for an R&D Electrical Designer for our business area Coastguard & Navy. As an Electrical Designer, you will become part of a small, multidisciplinary team dedicated to working with some of the most demanding customers in the marine industry. We develop electric propulsion, power and automation systems that will be the basis for safe, efficient, and environmentally friendly operation of various vessels within Coast Guard and Navy. We work with both traditional AC high-voltage systems and DC-grid systems. Office location is Fornebu, alternative Ulsteinvik.

Your responsibilities

• Participate to definition, realization, and further development of systems including electrical function defined in Coast Guard and Navy Portfolio.
• Propose, develop, and test in lab improvements for this portfolio, maintain documentations and schematics.
• Simulate and analyze integration of these systems and particularly on electromagnetism aspect.
• Participate on tests for standard verification as participate to certification testing.
• Participate in the preparation of product documentation for sales, manufacturing as certification.
• Contribute technical support to our sales department, project team and production team.

Your background

• You have a bachelor's or master's degree in power electronics or electrical engineering, with a few years’ experience ideally in Maritime environment.
• You have some knowledge on EMC design and testing, as on electronic converter topologies.
• You have some familiarity with modern simulation tools (SiMetrix, LTspice, Ansys, Matlab/simulink).
• Your attitude is as important to us as your grades.
• You have the ability to combine practical and theoretical knowledge.
• Fluency in English is a requirement, as well as cultural awareness and mutual respect - we have an international workplace and business where we have colleagues and customers from different backgrounds and nationalities.
• We believe that you are interested in learning about the marine industry and power systems and that you have an interest in new technology within low and zero emission technology such as fuel cells and energy storage systems.

More about us

We offer technical and personal challenges in an international and innovative environment. Professional growth is just as important to us as it is to you, and we facilitate learning and development through mentoring schemes, internal courses, and exciting career opportunities. You can expect an informal work environment with a lot of positive and engaged co-workers that will welcome you to our team. Employee benefits include flexible work arrangements, good pension, and insurance schemes, cabin rentals, and other favorable agreements.

Please apply latest by 12.01.2023.

Please note that in cooperation with Meditor Search we conduct a background screening on all candidates that receive an offer of employment in ABB Norway. This is to ensure best quality in our recruitment process, according with ABBs company policy.

We look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com.