R&D Engineer

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We are looking for a proactive and motivated person with good communication skills, teamwork oriented and with strong digital skills.Availability to travel (mainly to production in Santa Palomba - Rome) for about 20% of the time.

This position reports to

R&D Team Lead

Your responsibilities

• You will be part of the R&D center IT, responsible for several electronic low voltage measurement devices (meters, network analyzer, …) and for low voltage protection devices and components (RCCB, RCBO, MCB, AFDD, motor reclosing, …).
• You will be part of Product Care unit, managing the maintenance and the improvement/optimization of products in production (mainly in our factory in Santa Palomba -Rome, but not only), inside a global and international environment.
• In particular, you will:
• -Participate as R&D member into cross-functional improvement team (involving also operational located in Santa Palomba) focused on specific electric/electronic products, managing different maintenance topic (e.g. maintain product robustness, component shortage, cost reduction,…)
• -Propose and discuss product change activities, working in cross-functional teams with mechanical, electrical, electronic (hardware and firmware) designers, with special focus on prototyping and validation of the solution, together with Laboratoty and Quality
• -Evaluate requests from Production, Quality and Engineering departments and propose product modifications accordingly
• -Prepare technical reports supported by design calculations, simulations and test lab, using standard and non-standard tools.
• -Coordinate prototypes construction to ensure alignment with project/task timeline; plan and analyze experimental tests to verify technical solutions. Work within the project team, opting for time and cost-effective solutions
• -Maintain Bills of Materials of products (SAP/WindChill)
• -Coordinate tasks assigned to external suppliers, ensuring clear specifications and timeline.

Your background

• The ideal candidate has:
• -Master’s Degree in Electronic or Electrical Engineer
• -Previous experience (2-3 years at least) in design and maintenance of electronic devices
• -Good level of Italian and English, both written and spoken
• -Result orientation and personal ownership of tasks
• -Good communication skills to handle different perspectives and achieve buy-in
• -Knowledge of main PC tools
• Appreciated additional competences:
• -Ability to work in SAP and/or Windchill environment for what related to BOM
• -Knowledge of Altium
• -Knowledge of CAD tool (Catia, Creo)
• -Knowledge of task management tools such as DevOps and/or Jira
• -Knowledge of statistical analysis tool (such as Minitab)
• -Experience in lean sigma approach

More about us

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.Work model: remote #LI-remoteWork model: hybrid #LI-hybridWork model: on site #LI-onsite