Electrical Designer

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Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)  Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

Electrical Designer
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- Site based in Burlington, Canada

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover impactful work, innovative thinking and a culture dedicated to working the right way, for the right reasons - with the customer always top of mind. The work we do matters, like helping customers find cures for cancer, and protecting the environment. As the world leader in serving science, with the largest investment in R&D in the industry, our colleagues are empowered to realize their full potential as part of a fast-growing, global organization that values passion and unique contributions.

Our commitment to our colleagues across the globe is to provide the resources and opportunities they need to make a difference in our world while building a fulfilling career with us.
Location Information:
This role is based at our Burlington, Ontario facility, supporting our Lab Automation group, an ISO 9001 certified organization. Our team designs, manufactures, and installs robotic solutions globally, accelerating drug discovery, synthetic biology research, and clinical testing for major pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers. Learn more about Laboratory Automation on our website

How you will make an impact:
As an Electrical Designer, you will play an important role as part of a project team providing engineered electrical solutions to ensure performance and safety of engineered-to-order (ETO) automated laboratory projects.
What you will contribute:
Team Collaboration   Collaborate with multi-functional project teams that include the customer, Project Managers, Integrators, Mechanical Designers, Material Planning, Procurement, to plan and develop an ETO solution to achieve the agreed requirements
Promote a multi-functional team environment through design reviews at key stages of the projects
Support the pre-sales team as a technical consultant to support customer bids on new business
Work with vendors to review designs for manufacturability and select components for the system solution providing alternates due to obsolescence or supply chain constraints.
Support root cause investigations and resolution with internal team members and vendors
Technical & Safety   Perform power distribution calculations to specify the electrical and other applicable utility requirements for the customer to operate the automated system properly and safely
Create electrical schematics drawings for the system’s communications, power distribution and safety circuitry using AutoCAD
Perform and detail Safety Risk Assessments on the system design for compliance with locally legislated requirements such as OSHA, CSA, CE, UKCA, UL, IEC or customer specific
Prepare Bills of Materials (BOM) pertaining to electrical assemblies for order release in the ERP system
Continuous Improvement   Help to improve design efficiency and consistency from project to project by maintaining the central design library for commonly used components and assemblies
Ensure design issues and/or problems are resolved effectively and accurately vetted by the multi-functional project team
Investigate, propose, and implement design improvements to enhance our product quality, value to our customers, or improve our profitability

How will you get here?
Education   Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
Professional Engineers of Ontario (P.Eng) license considered an asset

Experience   5+ years’ experience in an electrical design or engineering role

Experience with robotics and/or automated systems considered an asset
Able to perform power distribution calculations and heat generation analysis
CMSE or experience in Machinery Safety considered an asset

Experience with maintaining part items in an ERP system

Experience with industrial network infrastructure
Experience in a customer-facing role

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities   Proficiency with the latest version of AutoCAD
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