Assistant General Manager - Power Electrical

The Lead Power Electrical Engineer is part of the EAI team, which includes people specialized in industrial electricity, power conversion, automation, and instrumentation. In close cooperation with the EAI team and the purchasing department, the Power Electrical Engineer designs and implements the DC power supply of the electrolyzer, and around system (safety, earthing and grounding, etc.), with the aim of continuously optimizing the solutions.

Key Result Areas

• Detailed design for power conversion unit and its around techniques, taking into account the local constraints,
• Final specification for purchasing, installation, commissioning, maintenance, guarantee.
• Participate actively to weekly meetings (product development, supplier, project)
• Identify future solution, based on market evolution.
• Identify improvements and/or weaknesses.
• Follow-up new technologies and suppliers development to ensure the best technical and economic solution for each of our products.

Key Responsibilities

The Lead Power Electrical Engineer will be responsible for:

• Read and understand the customer specifications and establish deviation list between John Cockerill usual solution and the request.
• Consider local regulations and the specific requirements.
• Be able to design and specify electrical philosophy.
• Be able to design and specify high voltage transformers.
• Be able to design and specify the power electronics (rectifiers, DC-DC converters, inverters, choppers, etc.);
• Be able to design and specify cooling requirement for power electronics.
• Manage the electrical protections.
• Define the solution of earthing and grounding.
• Participate to FAT and SAT related to it s studies, based on checklists for verification of product conformity
• Contact suppliers in collaboration with the Purchasing Department, to ensure the technical comparison of offers and technical discussions with suppliers.
• Develop engineering process and templates for the team
• Interested and ensure the technological watch, be proactive in the continuous learning of Hydrogen sector
• Ensure boundaries of scope and interfaces with suppliers.
• Knowledge in electrical basic design is a key advantage.
• Be able to design and specify electrical philosophy.
• Realization of low-voltage electrical distribution studies.
• Carry out power balances, cable books and cable calculation notes.
• Realize single-line and multifilar diagrams.
• Develop layout diagrams for EAI equipment, cables and cable trays
• Produce project lists (electrical consumers, load list, cable list, bill of quantities, etc.)

Education and Experience

• You have an engineering degree in power electronics or in the electrical field,
• You have minimum 15 to 18 years experience in engineering in an industrial environment
• Experience and knowledge in the Oil&Gas or Energy sector is an asset
• You have notions of instrumentation (gas) and a technical basis in automation.
• Knowledge of software like ETAP is an asset
• Knowledge of the following standards, on top of electrical ones (IEC, NEC):
• Functional Safety
• Electromagnetic Compatibility
• Explosive Atmosphere
• API
• You have a strong and autonomous personality, an entrepreneurial mindset and a will to win
• You are able to prioritize and have an excellent sense of organization
• You are able to work in a team and take responsibility on several projects in parallel.
• You are adaptable and at ease with evolving in a continuously growing environment.
• You are fluent in English and French
• You are proficient in MS office, Teams, and SharePoint.