Electrical Engineer - Sustaining

at  XP POWER LIMITED

At XP Power, we are committed to our culture that values Customer Focus, Flexibility, Knowledge, Speed and Integrity. Joining our team means working in a high performing global company where employees collaborate and strive for excellence.
We are looking for an Electrical Engineer- Sustaining.

Reporting to Sustaining Manager/Director of Engineering, successful applicant will be responsible for providing electrical/hardware engineering services to the global business, covering a range of power supply failure analysis and product evaluation for mass produced power supplies. The incumbent will serve as the technical advisor to build up the Asia Engineering team’s competences.

• Act as a subject matter expert or working towards becoming a subject matter expert (SME) for SMPS power supplies across the Asia business.
• Engage and support strategic collaboration with R&D, Manufacturing and Quality teams. Aligns with global objectives
• Challenge where appropriate and develop best engineering practice procedures and models to improve the process
• Troubleshoot SMPS power supplies to identify root cause, and provide feedback to Quality, Manufacturing & Design teams with recommendations to drive the improvement or design changes
• Provide test plan for impact study to mitigate risk due to design changes,
• Take technical responsibility and identify technical risks within projects and drive the solution.
• Ensure all customer returns are analyzed, perform tests and experiments as needed to support or confirm customer issues
• Write & distribute failure analysis reports to internal and external customers
• Advise sales/customer on delivery schedules of customers’ issues
• Develop and supervise junior engineers and technicians

To be successful in this role, you should ideally have

• Strong technical knowledge of power electronic converter topologies AC/DC and magnetics design. At least 5 years’ experience in design and engineering projects
• Proficient in tolerance or worst case circuit analysis
• Proven experience with power supply fault analysis and repair
• Understanding of manufacturing process, test, quality and change management process
• Good reasoning, problem solving, analytical skills and critical thinker, familiar with analysis techniques (8Ds, Fish bone, DFX etc)
• Knowledge in EMC and Safety Design is a plus
• Good technical writing capabilities and communication skills
• Good stakeholders management skills
• Hardworking, dynamic and a good team player

Reporting to Sustaining Manager/Director of Engineering, successful applicant will be responsible for providing electrical/hardware engineering services to the global business, covering a range of power supply failure analysis and product evaluation for mass produced power supplies. The incumbent will serve as the technical advisor to build up the Asia Engineering team’s competences.

• Act as a subject matter expert or working towards becoming a subject matter expert (SME) for SMPS power supplies across the Asia business.
• Engage and support strategic collaboration with R&D, Manufacturing and Quality teams. Aligns with global objectives
• Challenge where appropriate and develop best engineering practice procedures and models to improve the process
• Troubleshoot SMPS power supplies to identify root cause, and provide feedback to Quality, Manufacturing & Design teams with recommendations to drive the improvement or design changes
• Provide test plan for impact study to mitigate risk due to design changes,
• Take technical responsibility and identify technical risks within projects and drive the solution.
• Ensure all customer returns are analyzed, perform tests and experiments as needed to support or confirm customer issues
• Write & distribute failure analysis reports to internal and external customers
• Advise sales/customer on delivery schedules of customers’ issues
• Develop and supervise junior engineers and technician

To be successful in this role, you should ideally have

• Strong technical knowledge of power electronic converter topologies AC/DC and magnetics design. At least 5 years’ experience in design and engineering projects
• Proficient in tolerance or worst case circuit analysis
• Proven experience with power supply fault analysis and repair
• Understanding of manufacturing process, test, quality and change management process
• Good reasoning, problem solving, analytical skills and critical thinker, familiar with analysis techniques (8Ds, Fish bone, DFX etc)
• Knowledge in EMC and Safety Design is a plus
• Good technical writing capabilities and communication skills
• Good stakeholders management skills
• Hardworking, dynamic and a good team playe