Low Voltage Product Design Engineer

About ABB

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we'll give you what you need to make it happen. It won't always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you'll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

ABB Smart Power provides energy distribution solutions for data centers, industrial and manufacturing plants, critical infrastructure and commercial buildings. The Division's technical teams work closely with industry partners, delivering advanced solutions that support rapid growth, energy transition, and sustainability objectives. The Division's portfolio includes industrial circuit breakers, low-voltage systems, motor starting applications, and safety devices like switches and relays. Its Power Protection unit supports the world's largest data center companies with advanced energy-efficient UPS solutions. The Division's ABB Ability™ Energy Manager provides a scalable, easy-to-use platform that helps organizations save energy and reduce CO2 emissions.

Role Information

Reports to: Chapter Lead (ELSP Pilot)

Location: Xiamen, China

Your Role and Responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to support the strategic technology direction by contributing your own ideas for identifying, proposing, and implementing innovative technology, software and solutions. Each day, you will assist the Research and Development (R&D) team by executing your assigned tasks and using technical knowledge in a structured way. You will also showcase your expertise by staying abreast of the state of the art and actively applying this knowledge.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Being responsible for Low Voltage product design
• Solid technical proficiency in Mechanical & Electric parts design and development, with senior engineer coaching independent ability to achieve the design task, recognize problems and provide input to solutions
• Actively follows the scientific discussions and contributes independently
• Using functional design methodology and simulation to achieve good product reliability and robust design
• Delivery Design and implementing design review with cross function
• Making prototype and validation solution, test to validate the design fulfill the technical requirement, following type test and ensuring the product can be released to market
• Ensure designs comply with a blend of standards: IEC 60947, GB/T 14048 and Major Classification society rules (e.g., CE, CCC)
• As Agile Team member, active take charge and contributing to the business target, independent achieve own task on time, cost and quality
• Understands the key business drivers for Low Voltage product in order to make judgments and contribute to results
• With own creative ideas to propose follow-up projects and activities
• Communicating/cooperating with overseas and local stakeholders to maintain products and manage projects
• Has a basic understanding of the importance of IP for the ABB business, contributes to IP discussions and develops project clearance reports
• Identifies risks in R&D projects
• Author detailed technical specifications and documentations for LV switch and associated equipment
• Implement technical clarifications and customer requirement evaluations, ensuring vendor proposals comply with design intent, industry standards, and client specifications
• Create and Release vendor submittals, including design drawings, test plans, and factory acceptance test (FAT) procedures

Qualifications for the Role

• BS in mechanical engineering with min. 2+ years' experience or MSc in mechanical/electrical engineering experience in Low Voltage product R&D
• Familiar with the common used engineering materials: metal sheet, copper bar, insulation part etc, and related manufacturing/processing
• Familiar with new product design and development process, but also know well design methodology include FMEA, tolerance calculation, GD&T (ASME), DFA/DFM, etc.
• Knows well low voltage product related standard, and capable to draft and execute verification test plan according to standards IEC60947 and GB/T14048
• Proficient in CAD, e.g. AutoCAD, Creo, Solidwork and MS office
• Well logic and construction thinking ability, work independently
• Good of oral, reading and express technical solutions and communicate with global team in English
• Good communication and teamwork skills
• Agile team experience is preferred

Why ABB

Working at ABB gives you the opportunity to contribute to a healthier and more prosperous world. Add to your story by joining a passionate team, focused on pushing the boundaries of technology to drive performance, shape new business models and find new ways of working that benefit our customers, partners and society. We want you to be proud of being part of ABB.

We Care

At ABB, we care about our people and their stories. We create safe, fair, equitable and inclusive working environments in which our people can succeed and develop, regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or cultural, religious or social background. Diverse teams make us stronger. ABB is also committed to a high standard of integrity in everything we do.

We Grow

We help our people succeed and develop, and we empower them to create their own careers at ABB. Our benefits, reward and development programs encompass a wide array of offerings.

How to Apply

Do you want to shape the future, together with us? Get more insights into our recruitment process and find some helpful tips and tricks how to join the team. Make our story your story.