Freelance Electrical Application/Lead Design Engineer (ZZP)

The primary function of the job is within the Mainstations Customer Order Engineering (COE) team and the role reports into the Teamleader. There are 4 engineering functions organized within the COE team; Electrical Engineering & Application Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Work preparation.

Primary Function:

Responsible for customer design activities pertaining to MMS + NGX switchgear assemblies, creating high quality custom designed assemblies at a minimum cost while meeting and exceeding customer requirements, in accordance with all applicable codes and standards.In addition, the engineer defines and implements improvements that improve the efficiency of the Custom Order Engineering team, and provides applied engineering and technical consultation with regard to the design and specifications of custom-made applications, necessary safety precautions and calculations during the RFQ (Request for Quotation).

Essential Functions:

• Technical review of project documentation. Interpret specs and customer inquiries and design technical proposals and cost estimation for customers.

• Provides applied engineering and technical consultation for customers in the areas of complete power distribution system design, protection & control design, or upgrades, installation, testing, maintenance, repair and training, solutions relating to increase safety, reliability, or efficiency.

• Review electrical diagrams and factory drawing packages.

• Provides specialized technical support for commissioning and testing of electrical installations, including programming and FAT (Factory Acceptance Test) and if desired SAT (Site Acceptance test) on locations world-wide, of electronic protective relays and control equipment.

• Analyzes failures based on customer information and advice on solutions .

• Document all activities, data and information in line with procedures.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.

• Must understand the switchgear Design and Manufacturing processes.

• Able to work with Elcad and Eplan schematic tooling applications.

• Able to program PLC in software package such as Codesys, Galileo and FactoryTalk and protection relays Eaton, ABB, and Siemens.

• Knowledge about network protocols: Modbus, Profibus, Profinet, Ethernet / IP, Devicenet, IEC61850.

• Knowledge about testing, diagnostic, repair tools and methods.

• Knowledge of the applicable law, regulations, (inter)national standards including IEC standards.

• Solid organizational skills with proven communications skills to interface with internal and external customers, sales, and other team members on a technical level in multiple languages: English (v/w) and Dutch (v) language capabilities.

Preferred:

• Application expertise in MV power distribution, control systems, power transformers, batteries, protection, systems grounding, substation design.