How do you shape the future through engineering? We are looking for the decision makers of tomorrow, talented engineering graduates ready to help Siemens shape entire industries, cities and even countries in our Digital Industries Division. Siemens Digital Industries provide innovative solutions for UK industry - we optimise our customers processes, maximise productivity and reduce their energy costs with our product range of automation equipment and totally integrated solutions for the global community/industry that will support and sustain the environment and address global challenges. We support companies to maximise productivity in a sustainable and efficient way that will reduce environmental impact. We currently have an exciting opportunity to recruit a Graduate Electronics Engineer within our Congleton R&D department. At Siemens General Motion Control (GMC) business in Congleton, we design, and manufacture AC electronics motor controllers known as drives, with a power range from a few hundred Watts up to 10's of Kilowatts and voltage ranges of 200-690V. These products not only help our customers better control and digitalise their machines, they can also help improve their carbon footprint. Crucial to ensuring continued success is providing our customers with a comprehensive product portfolio that meets their needs. Our R&D departments around the world are focused in helping to achieve this through, our innovation, fast time to market and most importantly our people and culture. The Challenge We are looking for a graduate engineerwho has a real passion for electronics engineering and simulation. The person wants to apply their knowledge and experience in product development, whilst at the same time having the curiosity to seek out new ways of doing things; can think creatively and not afraid to try new ideas even if they may be unsuccessful and continuously open to learning and growing as a person. The successful candidate will join our electrical design team and will be working as part of a cross functional team to develop new products, supporting existing products and working on design to cost activities for variable speed drives. As a minimum you should hold an electrical and electronics degree and ideally have knowledge of low voltage power or analogue electronics. Also, being able to show your capability to learn, diversity of thinking and an excellent work ethic, including working in cross functional teams are all extremely important to be successful in this role. What are my responsibilities? • Design of industrial power electronics circuits and analogue electronic circuits. • Apply innovative and new technologies to create creative solutions which can bring benefits for example in technical performance and/or product costs • Simulation to support in the creation of HW designs and faster validation of development results and ultimately reduce test efforts and improve quality. • Perform design verification and product validation tests against relevant international standards. • Hands-on design prototyping and debugging (e.g., in-depth fault investigations) • Intensive collaboration and information exchange within the cross functional team The Candidate • You must be working towards or have completed a degree in Electrical and/or Electronics • Knowledge of analogue and power electronic circuit design • Experience of using simulation tools • Appreciation of trade-offs between electrical and mechanical aspects e.g thermal design • Experience of designing variable speed drives would be a significant advantage • Knowledge of standards (particularly UL and IEC 61800-5-1) would be advantageous • Excellent collaborator and team working, with the ability to work with multi-site international teams • Not being afraid to fail, will learn from the experience and try again • Show initiative, organise your work, take ownership of your tasks What else do I need to know? The total rewards' package for this role includes a competitive salary, plus an annual bonus. We know that not everyone’s lifestyle is the same, so we operate a flexible benefits scheme where you can tailor your benefits package to suit. If we all thought the same, we would never think of anything new. That’s why we recruit great minds from all walks of life. Siemens recognise that building a diverse workforce is essential to the success of our business. We strongly encourage applications from a diverse talent pool and welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements and workplace adjustments with all applicants to encourage agile working, flexibility and innovation. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. Organization: Digital Industries Company: DI MC GMC MF-CON Experience Level: not defined Full / Part time: Full-time