Electronic Design Engineer needed at Epiroc
Job title : Electronic Design Engineer
Job Location : Gauteng, Pretoria
Deadline : February 22, 2025
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Main Responsibilities or Functions of Job:
- Design and develop electronic systems for Mernok’s current and future Proximity Detection Systems
- Develop embedded applications for microcontrollers / microprocessor in control systems
- Design Electronic applications – from schematic capture, PCB layout to test, planning and implementation to meet requirements, using good engineering practices
- Support and maintain existing product designs
- Develop component qualification processes for extreme environments
- Continually improve Mernok’s design methodology and development processes
- Define internal interfaces between parts of the electronics
- Consider system aspects that may affect the electronics, including noise and power distribution.
- Implement the design in hardware, firmware and software
- Test the hardware and implement corrections as necessary
- Generate production data packs and product support documentation
- Maintain existing products in terms of software changes, PCB updates, firmware changes and documentation
- Simulations of the design at various levels
- Assist production to deliver high quality product
- Assist clients when required
- Assist with installations
- Derive requirements for the complex electronics
- Ensure external interfaces match the specification, including voltage level and timing.
- Synthesize, place and route, etc. designs
- Program complex electronics
- Test the final hardware and implement corrections as necessary
- Perform system safety analyses and identify safety verifications required
- Verify that safety features and controls are successfully implemented
- Identify if complex electronics can cause a hazard or are part of a hazard control
- Ensure that design errors in complex electronics are considered as a failure mode
- Assess tools used to design and implement complex electronics
- Review subsystem requirements for proper decomposition from system requirements
Required Skills and Capabilities:
- Assess implementation against requirements and design
- Ensure development and supporting processes (e.g. Configuration Management, ESD) are in place and followed
- Review choice of parts; Provide guidance on preferred parts
- Ensure electronics are assembled / manufactured to acceptable standards
- Perform or witness testing at various system and subsystems
- Ensure software tools used for complex electronic design and programming are archived and controlled
- Ensure complex electronic designs are captured in the Configuration Management system
- Ensure problem reporting, tracking, and corrective action occur for all systems
- Ensure changes to complex electronic designs are reviewed, evaluated for impacts, and approved
- Provide official builds for formal programming / testing
- Ensure compliance with company’s OHS policies and actively promote safety within the work environment
- Should be able to follow structure and standards but still be innovative
- Must be able to perform under pressure
- Willingness to work beyond normal office hours when required..
Education and Experience:
- BEng (Electronic) or BEng (Computer)
- 3-5 years experience
- Must be able to excel in a team of designers and independent enough to handle smaller projects alone
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