Specialist Engineer - Power Electronics

at  KK Wind Solutions

Looking for an impactful career where you will put your technical expertise into play on the design of high power converters? If your answer is yes, then join us as a Specialist Engineer - Power Electronics for IGBT stack & Converter Design in our dynamic Product & Engineering Solutions team.
At KK Wind Solutions, we are pioneers in wind power - be a part of the leading supplier within wind turbine and PtX sub-systems and get a unique insight into some of the largest wind turbines and renewable power plants in the world.

OUR REQUIREMENTS

• Education background in Electrical Engineering, Master or comparable degree
• Experience with high power semiconductor components and driver technologies
• Minimum 3 years design engineer experience in a comparable working environment
• Fluent in spoken & written English
  Don’t meet all the requirements? No worries – If you are resilient, possess a can-do attitude and enjoy a collaborative environment, we would like to hear from you!

WE OFFER

At KK Wind Solutions, we offer you the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues across cultures in developing innovative greentech solutions. Founded on our long history as an industry pioneer and strong financial position, we are always looking for ways to improve our business and encourage new ideas and fresh perspectives. Combined with a flat hierarchical structure and a positive and informal working environment with a can-do attitude, this allows our employees to grow both personally and professionally.

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:

Establish power electronic stack designs to be embedded in complete converters with cross functional interaction to all value streams within a matrix organization. Focus on high power density and outstanding reliability while considering the cost targets and state of the art control concepts. Setup of the module requirements based on internal, external specifications and international standards. Within this, drive technical communication with customers and suppliers. Application of new design principles with the entire P&ES team and suppliers. Architectural guidance of the development during the entire product life cycle: specification, design setup, implementation, verification & validation, preparation for serial manufacturing and handover to the production team. Efficient team, value-oriented guidance & support to the down streamed detailed electro-mechanical design teams in Global and Customer-engineering.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Power electronic concept & architecture definition
• Use existing and drive new modular power stack concepts as building blocks for high power converters
• Application and optimisation or semiconductor-driver technologies, stack cooling concepts and efficiency increase for Si and SiC solutions
• Set new impulses and direction together with the entire P&ES team
• Drive and optimize test and verification setup and prototype build
• Support the project management in resource planning, competency selection and project execution
• Efficient use of design supporting tools, e.g., requirement management system, D-FMEA, risk assessment, trade studies
• Maintain valuable interactions & dialogs to suppliers and customers
• Keep high technical know-how level within the team, e.g. through interaction with universities, participation on fairs and conferences
• Actively drive the matrix interaction to KK value chain organizations like: Manufacturing, Sourcing, Global Engineering, Business Units (BUs)