Manufacturing Engineer

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Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to providing necessary maintenance activities to achieve the required level of quality, costs and production capacity for active products. Each day, you will support active product through production. Over time you will contribute to new product developments including assembling prototypes and testing new designs. Reporting to Manufacturing Engineering Manager, this position will be based in Napier, New Zealand. The work model for the role is: onsite #LI-Onsite This role is contributing to the Power Protection business in Napier. Main stakeholders are R&D and Agile teams for technical input and to SCM (Supply Chain Management) and Production teams. You will be mainly accountable for: • Developing and managing engineering changes in active products • Monitoring product/assembly cost and developing projects for cost savings • Managing technical documents for production (3D, Schematics, BOM, Assembly Procedure) • Establishing project specification for production • Converting R&D developments into products for market and readying these for mass production • Supporting for production lines. Involving problem solving analysis and investigating together with Quality/Process teams • Maintaining assembly and packaging instructions

Qualifications for the role

• You enjoy working with 3D modelling tools like Solidworks, Electrical schematic capture tools like Autocad, and ERP systems like SAP
• You have You have more than 2 years of experience in managing multiple (change) projects
• Degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent experience).
• You are at ease communicating in English

More about us

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. We value people from different backgrounds. Apply today for your next career step within ABB and visit www.abb.com to learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStory