Permanent - Electronic Engineer - Ekurhuleni (East Rand) - South Africa

Key Responsibilities

Design and Development:

• Creating, designing, and prototyping electronic systems, including analog, digital, and power circuits.
• Ensure and equip with the required knowledge in electrochemistry and hands-on experience with all battery chemistries including Li-ion battery research & development.

Testing and validation:

• Inspecting, testing, and validating the reliability and functionality of electronic devices and systems, and analyzing test results.

Troubleshooting:

• Identifying and resolving problems in existing electronic components, systems, and software.

Documentation:

• Creating and maintaining technical documentation, including schematics, reports, test procedures and design reviews.
• Prepare operating manuals and works instructions on designed products.
• Basic management of IP and critical information according to our document control and ISO processes

Quality and Safety:

• Ensuring all products and equipment meet health, safety, and quality regulations.

Collaboration:

• Liaising with clients, and teams to ensure projects are completed to specification.
• Reporting
• Reporting monthly and on an ad hock base regarding all engineering and production aspects.
• Present technical reports when assisting in testing of product faults or customer returns and complaints.

Support Functions

• Engineering support for all customers and products.
• Production and quality support.
• Present and manage capex and other financial requirements.
• Identify training needs, train subordinates in all areas where required and arrange external training.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.

Basic requirements

• A self-motivated and driven innovative design engineer to contribute in the design, development and testing of our custom design battery packs and peripheral products.
• Manage the Research and Development department and all required functions described below.
• Manage the drawing department and ensure comprehensive data packs and drawings are completed.
• Ensuring that all functions are managed according to ISO9001 2015 requirements.
• Ensuring that the full hardware cycle from design to production is managed.
• Production planning, scheduling and management.

Experience:

• Electronic design, mainly in analogue design.
• Customer support
• Quality system, IO9001 2015
• Production management and scheduling.
• R & D with project management.
• Reporting