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Work as part of an international R&D team of engineers on a system-wide communication infrastructure used by Hitachi Energy to monitor substations and similar installations.
Your responsibilities
- Evaluate the supercaps application in other domains
- Consolidate the application areas so that we might secure some IP strategy when we opt for multiple suppliers but a common systems strategy
- To understand if any of those are cycled non-frequently and thus slated for longer life but offer similar challenges as ours
- Evaluate other forms of capacitors
- To draw common denominator (thus mutual exclusivity) with supercaps for thermal resistance, load profiling, cooling control
- Life evaluation based on operation and material properties
- Monitoring and maintenance planning of supercaps
- How the monitoring takes place for taking care of this specific piece in the system chain?
- How are maintenance plans adopted for this particular piece?
- What can be leveraged into SVC application?
- Reliability engineering assessment of supercaps
- Common risk models at system level
Your background
- Master student in electrical engineering, instrumentation, automation, IoT or other comparable study.
- General knowledge of Power Grid and in the field of digitalization and automation.
- Motivated and committed personality, who likes to work on the development of solutions and their successful implementation.
- An autonomous person, capable of carrying out the required activities in an international environment.
- You like working in an international team.
- Fluent spoken and written English, German skills are beneficial.
More about us
Hitachi ABB Power Grids is a global technology leader with a combined heritage of almost 250 years, employing around 36,000 people in 90 countries. Headquartered in Switzerland, the business serves utility, industry and infrastructure customers across the value chain, and emerging areas like sustainable mobility, smart cities, energy storage and data centres. With a proven track record, global footprint and unparalleled installed base, Hitachi ABB Power Grids balances social, environmental and economic values, and is committed to powering good for a sustainable energy future, with pioneering and digital technologies, as the partner of choice for enabling a stronger, smarter and greener grid. www.hitachiabb-powergrids.com
Publication date
2022-02-09
Reference Number
DE52739669_E1