Project Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 22, 2026. First seen by Alion on Aug 4, 2026. ABB scores A on the Alion truth index.
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This position reports to:
Digital Solution Engineering Manager__
Your role and responsibilities
In this role, you will have the opportunity to act as a design authority for an engineering discipline with low to medium complexity. Each day, you will complete assignments on small projects or portions of larger projects in a cost-effective manner. You will also showcase your expertise by applying basic design thinking/design for excellence concepts in projects.
The work model for the role is: onsite
This role is contributing to the ELDS Solution business in Xiamen China. Main stakeholders are ELDS.You will be mainly accountable for:
Pre-sales Support
Study and know customer’s need or pain points through project execution
- Propose the promotion materials for bidding and spec-in the proposal
- Co-laborate tendering team to prepare the quotation document and improve hit rate
- Engage with customers to negotiate and finalize technical agreements
- Optimize the scheme to improve the solution competitiveness
Engineering Design
- Negotiate with customer technical requirements finalized
- Design solution drawings or review drawings from vendors
- BOM preparation and release (when applicable)
- Coordinate purchasing dep. for materials and components cost optimization
- Coordinate production, track and solve problems that occur during prodcution
- Design timing management ,design frozen timely to avoid futher rework COPQ
- Solve the technical issues including site commissions.
Leading Engineering
- Have rich experience in multi-fields, power system products, digital system, segment knowhow
- Make cross-field solution proposal
- Lead the feasibility, rationality, optimization and innovation of the overall technical scheme of complex projects
- As consultant in energy transition market
Project management
- When needed, handle project as a project manager, based on your electrical engineering background
- Ensure project delivery on time , risk migration
- Margin Improvement
- Customer satisfaction increase
- Regular pregress report and close-out report
Site Management
- Inspect digital system project site work done by suppliers in HSE, work quality
- Write work logs and monthly report
- Identify site work defects and manage suppliers correct it timely
- Keep good communication with customer and feedback the work status regularly
- Hold work start kickoff meeting and daily routine meeting
- Site work close-out report
- Support site commission work, e.g. system configuariton , Gateway configuration
Qualifications for the role
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, automation or a related field; a master's degree is preferred.
- 3 years’ experience of electrical design, experience in medium-voltage or low-voltage switchgear or eHouse is preferred.
- Strong understanding of power systems, such as medium-voltage technology, power system analysis, and protection relay.
- Project design, project management skills.
- Good communication and logical thinking ability.
- Proficient in office software, such as AutoCAD.
- Good English skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing).
- Be brave to take responsibility, be innovative, pragmatic and rigorous
More about us
ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.
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