POWER ELECTRONICS ENGINEER / POWER SYSTEMS

Power Electronics / Power Systems Engineer

- AC Electrical Systems

- Motor Control & Starting Systems

- Industrial Power Products

- Embedded Control Electronics

- VFD's, Switchgear, High Current

- Long Term Permanent Position

We are looking for a Power Electronics engineer, ideally with practical experience working on AC electrical systems and motors, together with enough design capability to make a meaningful contribution to product development.

If you are in this space, we're keen to hear about:

- Where you have worked and what you have worked on

- What equipment or products you have worked on

- What you have designed and significantly contributed to

The opportunity

Our state-of-the-art design and manufacturing facility in Port Kembla offers a multidisciplinary R&D;, engineering and manufacturing environment developing and supporting globally deployed industrial electronic products associated with:

- AC motors and motor control

- power electronics

- soft starters and motor-starting systems

- VFDs and motor drives

- industrial switching and control

- protection, sensing and fault handling

- embedded control hardware

- current and voltage measurement

- released-product improvement and production support

The role can suit a developing or established engineer, but it requires genuine practical experience rather than academic knowledge alone.

What you will work on...

- Designing and developing power‑electronics circuits and product subsystems.

- Contributing to AC-side, mains-side and motor‑control product development.

- Working with power stages, switching devices, gate drivers, sensing and protection circuits.

- Supporting soft starters, VFDs, motor controllers, contactors or related industrial switching products.

- Selecting and applying SCRs, TRIACs, MOSFETs, IGBTs or similar switching devices.

- Developing or reviewing schematics and PCB designs.

- Considering high‑current paths, thermal behaviour, EMC, isolation, creepage and clearance.

- Building, testing and debugging prototype hardware.

- Investigating failures found during development, production testing or field use.





- Implementing corrective design changes and validating the results.

- Working with embedded firmware, mechanical design, production and product lifecycle engineers.

- Producing clear design records, test results and release documentation.

Essential experience

Your experience may be drawn from power electronics, motor control, industrial automation, switchgear, drives, machinery, renewable energy, industrial power conversion or electrical product manufacturing.

You must have:

- Skilled engineering experience involving AC systems and electric motors.

- Substantive design or development capability.

- The ability to explain what you personally designed, changed, calculated, selected, programmed, tested or validated.

- Experience working with commercial products, electrical or electronic hardware.

- An understanding of how designs progress from concept through prototype, test, correction and release.

- A relevant qualification in electrical, electronic, power, mechatronics or a related engineering discipline.

Relevant technical experience

Experience in several of the following areas would be valuable:

- Three‑phase AC motors

- induction motors or permanent‑magnet motors

- motor starting and current limiting

- soft starters

- variable‑frequency drives

- motor controllers

- inverter power stages

- AC‑DC or DC‑AC conversion

- SCR or TRIAC control

- MOSFET, IGBT or SiC switching

- gate‑driver circuits

- current and voltage sensing

- overcurrent, overvoltage and thermal protection

- contactors and industrial switching

- power‑system or motor‑protection interfaces

- high‑current PCB design

- thermal design and component derating

- EMC and switching‑noise control

- galvanic isolation

- creepage and clearance

- prototype bring‑up and fault diagnosis





- production and field validation

The design requirement

Applicants must have credible design capability. This does not necessarily mean that you must have independently architected an entire commercial product. It does mean that you should have made real engineering decisions and be able to explain them.

Examples include:

- selecting a circuit or system topology

- designing or modifying a power stage

- calculating component ratings

- selecting switching devices

- designing sensing or protection circuits

- developing motor‑control logic

- preparing schematics

- reviewing PCB current paths or layout

- resolving thermal or EMC problems

- changing a design after failed testing

- validating a prototype or released‑product modification

Candidates whose experience is limited to operating equipment, configuring relays, following test procedures, commissioning systems or reviewing imported designs will need to demonstrate additional personal design contribution / side projects.

Strong backgrounds may include...

We are particularly keen if you have worked for manufacturers, consultancies or engineering teams involved in:

- motor drives and VFDs

- soft starters

- motor‑control centres

- industrial switchgear

- pumps, compressors, fans or rotating equipment

- industrial control products

- power converters and inverters

- UPS or renewable‑energy systems

- EV charging or electric‑drive systems

- mining, water, energy or heavy‑industry equipment

- electrical machinery and industrial automation

What we will ask you about

- where you worked

- what the company or project produced

- what AC system, motor, drive or power product you worked on

- the voltage, current and power level where available

- what you personally designed

- what you configured, integrated, tested or commissioned

- which switching devices, controllers or protection systems were involved

- whether the work reached prototype, factory test, field validation, production or commercial release

- a technical problem you encountered and how you helped resolve it

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