Senior Designer

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You will be working as Senior Designer and will be the part of Electrification business area for Distribution Solutions division based in Longmeadow, South Africa. In this role you will be reporting to Senior Engineering Manager and will be responsible to create, modify, and analyze the design of equipment, system, or installations, including specifications for manufacturing, fabrication, or construction on assignments of medium to high complexity using established solutions

Your responsibilities

• 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 meet updated standards, incorporating new products, components and functionalities
• Lead technology transfers for new portfolio in the division, 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
• Applies basic 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, ensures the engineering deliverables are updated post installation and commissioning
• 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 2D and 3D and other modelling tools usage to promote innovation and productivity, conduct and complete RCA reports on mechanical design issues or customer CCRP’s, assesses and addresses technical risk and opportunities with PM, reports and conduct / safety / quality / program / cost issues to Project Manager (s) 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, 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 managers 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 Manager (s), 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, coordinates with Commissioning / Service functions to ensure the designs are appropriately installed and commissioned (if applicable as part of the contract)

Your background

• Bachelor’s Degree in Equivalent field
• Minimum 5 years of experience in degree and design experience, SAP and bill of material background.
• Must have own transport
• Fluency in English language is mandatory

Benefits

• Retirement plan

More about us

ABB's Distribution Solutions Division provides utility, industrial and commercial customers with safe, smart and sustainable technologies for the distribution of electricity. With ABB AbilityTM enabled digital solutions at its core, our extensive portfolio includes distribution automation products, switching, limiting, measuring and sensing devices, switchgear, modular substation packages, and related services Work model: on site #LI-onsite