Design Engineer

Purpose of the job: To develop new and to improve on existing test regimes and equipment to support the manufacturing of electronic detonator products, as well as manufacturing plant equipment at local and international Joint Venture Channel partners, with a special focus on the EDU’s. Inter-act with research and development engineering.

Required outputs: Functional

• Developing new plant and equipment to manufacture DetNet products globally.
• Assist with developing and improving EDUs
• Participate in developing regional manufacturing facilities.
• Design (or contribute towards) a testing facility for the product.
• Document the design according to specified standards.
• Assist or manage production ramp-up projects.
• Develop and qualify initial qualification and volume production testers and jigs.
• Provide initiating systems testing and qualifications services.
• Attend far and near range product tests as Technical Supervisor during experiments, trials and qualifications.
• Design “characterization” trials and marketing field trials. (This includes detonators with explosives products).
• Consults and work closely/under the direction of DetNet and AECI Mining Services Technical custodians.
• Advise on alterations and modifications that can improve product performance, quality and ease of manufacture.
• Develop and review product test regimes and production flow specifications.
• Compile test specifications and methods. Conduct tests specified and write final qualification test report.
• Investigate plant failures, field failures and incident causes.  Design and conduct experiments to prove or disprove hypotheses.  Analyse failure samples of all DetNet products.
• Perform experimental and prototype testing of all DetNet products at various ranges when required.
• Support Quality Engineers in qualification, development and support of suppliers.

General

• Excellent understanding of electronic system design, electronic circuit diagrams and embedded software.
• Good Altium Designer skills
• Good understanding and experience of both hardware and software.

Requirements: Qualifications & Experience

• B.Eng/ Bsc Engineering (Electronics) or equivalent.
• Knowledge of integrated circuit design, analogue design and digital communication interfaces.
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience with analogue and digital circuit design as well as the industrialization of electronic products.

Personal Attributes:

• Mechanical aptitude
• Strong mathematical and analytical skills
• Excellent technical writing and documentation skills
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities
• Able to work within tight deadlines
• Effective and efficient planning
• Effective and analytical solving skills

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