Hydraulic Engineer to Surface and Exploration Drilling Division Epiroc

Epiroc is a leading productivity partner for the mining, infrastructure and natural resources industries. With
cutting-edge technology, Epiroc develops and produces innovative drill rigs, rock excavation and construction
equipment, and provides world-class service and consumables. The company was founded in Stockholm,
Sweden, and has passionate people supporting and collaborating with customers in more than 150 countries.
Learn more at www.epirocgroup.com.

Epiroc is a leading productivity partner for the mining and infrastructure industries. With cutting-edge technology, Epiroc develops and produces innovative drill rigs, rock excavation and construction.
The division Surface and Exploration Drilling develops, manufactures and markets rock and exploration drilling equipment. The machines are used for various applications in civil and geotechnical engineering, quarries and both surface as well as underground mines worldwide. Our strong focus on innovative product design and service support systems gives added customer value. Our headquarters are in Örebro, Sweden, and the main production centers are in Sweden, Italy, India, Japan and China. 

Job Description
The automated solutions is one of the main benefits of our Smart drill rigs and has a large impact on the products performance, availability and cost efficiency. Always striving for the most utilization and best control of the chosen solutions are major drivers in our current and future development work. We are now looking for a system-oriented engineer with a holistic and analytical approach that are eager to help us maintain our market leading position. The position will be in the Hydraulic, Pneumatic and Power distribution group at SED R&D department.

The use of new components, functionality, control strategies and new technologies opens up for new possibilities and challenges to maintain the market leader position. Analyzing and understanding how different concepts, control strategies and main components influence the drill rigs performance in different use cases are essential. You will work with the complete chain, from the first concept to follow up of the final product and have a dialogs with different sub and component -suppliers. Verifying the performance of the final product is also part of the work.

Your work will to a majority be on a project basis and you will be the R&D’s representative regarding functional development and control strategies of the hydraulic system and drilling in different product and basic development projects to further develop the performance of the drill rig as well as implementing new solutions on rigs with lower sophistication level today. The goals and targets are achieved via a continuous dialogue with colleagues and stakeholders combined with a development work there the individual engineer has good possibilities to influence how to plan your work.

Experience requirements
We believe you have an analytical approach, a system-oriented mindset and a good understanding of hydraulics and how to utilize and optimize the different functions. A good knowledge of hydraulics or system design and the characteristics of them and how to combine, dimension and control them in order to find the best compromise in terms of performance, energy efficiency etc. Experience from mobile equipment and functional development is meriting. Good knowledge of functional development and a general understanding of control algorithms or dynamics is a great advantage.

Personality requirements
To enjoy the work, it is important to have a genuine interest in technology and a desire to learn more about the products you are working with. Our design work is conducted in projects with both freedom and responsibility. These tasks requires many contacts both internally and externally, good interpersonal and communications skills are required to do the job. A good knowledge in English both written and spoken is required for the role. You preferably also have knowledge in Swedish.
Epiroc sees different personalities, ethnic origin, gender, age, skills and experience as an asset. We see that the differences make the birth of new ideas and improvements, and this leads to innovation and sustained, long-term results.

Educational requirements
You should have a documented academic background within relevant area or other highly qualified engineering background.

Location
This position is located in Örebro, Sweden.

Application and contacts
In this recruitment process we review applications continuously. Welcome with your application as soon as possible, but no later than March 22.