Cable Design Engineer
Job Description
Full Job Description
Job Description
Position : Cable Design Engineer
Organization
- Function : Technical Services
- Country : Qatar
- Location: Mesaieed
- Manager: Technical Manager
Context
- Replacement
Purpose
- Member of the Technical Department, to give all the technical support to Plant team, Sales Department in addition to customers.
- Support sales activities of LV,MV&HV cables by providing optimum cable design meeting customer’s specifications as well as provides after sales services to customers.
- Initiate and follow-up all product designing activities (Design and Development) to ensure new products are produced according product design. Activities include identification of requirements for products based on projects and products based on costumers Specification: defining input parameters, acceptance criteria, test limits, verification, approving and releasing the final design of the products in the form of Design Sheet (DS) for production.
Areas of responsibility
- Study international standards along with customers specifications
- Ensure to work with updated international standards & specifications.
- Review technical specifications received from sales for non-standard products, review the customer requirements, and study manufacturing possibilities based on machinery and testing and accordingly recommend to sales to accept or decline the customer’s request for the quantities.
- Develop product manufacturing specifications according to customers’ requirements.
- Provide a cable Design sheet (DS) that contains the cable dimension/structure and bill of materials (BOM) to list the material required to manufacture a specific cable designed and other technical data required by logistics/Planning to determine material availability, delivery schedule, and manufacturing data (Routing)to determine product cost for quotation to the customer.
- Initiate and follow-up all product designing activities by releasing trial (Design and Developed) for the New Family Products according to the company design and development procedure, then review the Inspection and Test Specification and put the acceptance criteria for manufacturing and testing the product as part of product Design approval.
- Make final assessment/evaluation and prepare a summary of the results of actual measurements made on the manufactured products and discuss the result with the Head of Technical Department for granting approval, disapproval or recommended further revision in design for re-manufacturing.
- Use existing software in the technical department and work on to their upgrade to reach higher efficiency.
- Ensure good flow of information between technical, production, supply chain, and sales.
- Participate in creating material specifications.
- Participate in reviewing the design sheets regularly to be cost-efficient and avoid over quality compared to standards.
- Review and update company catalogs as and when required.
- Participate in preparation and attendance of technical meetings, seminars, and exhibitions whenever needed.
Expected results
- To review design sheets and technical documents.
- To apply routings and calculation of different cable applications.
Required skills and qualifications
- Experience in cable industry especially in Technical/Design Engineering applications.
- Fluent in English (Both speaking & writing).
- 1 to 3 years of experience in cable design & manufacturing.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering.
- Highly dynamic, with patience & ability to listen along with motivational skills.
- Team player and result oriented
- Possesses strong reporting skills.
- Knowledge in computer software application.