Electrical Engineer - Research and Development
Apply NowCompany: Dürr AG
Location: De Pere, WI 54115
Description:
Your Tasks
Your Skills
- Work within a cross-functional team of other electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineers to design, develop, and test new and/or improved technologies related to web-handling, coating, and drying for the lithium-ion battery market. Work will include the following engineering steps:
- Brainstorm possible solutions to identified improvement opportunities and select best option using sound electrical design methodologies.
- Identify existing or add new process data sources needed for solution.
- Select and integrate hardware on a development machine.
- Produce development software - Specify and write software for PLC's and HMI.
- Participate in trials to validate solution. Obtain data and document results.
- Document validated solution for integration to existing machine standard.
- Research and evaluate state of the art technologies and equipment to be incorporated in the overall machine design.
- Occasional troubleshooting/debugging of Durr LiB equipment at a customer site.
- Develop budgets, estimating labor, material, and construction costs.
Your Skills
- Experienced Problem Solver, Inventive, Flexible
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
- PLC programming experience with Siemens or Rockwell
- Other software scripting exposure
- Selection and integration of electrical hardware
- Design and troubleshooting experience with variable speed and servo drive systems.
- Ability to understand high-level process functionality.
- Previous experience associated with the successful start-up, integration or design of printing and coating lines is a plus
- Machine learning, machine vision, SCADA knowledge are also a plus