Electronics Engineering Work Experience Opportunity

About PAFtec
PAFtec is a small and innovative Australian company specializing in powered respirator design and
manufacture.
Established in 2009 by a world class medical device engineering team, PAFtec reinvented the respiratory
protection masks with CleanSpace series powered respirators. Different from traditional powered
air-purifying respirators (PAPRs), CleanSpace doesnt require hose or cable, is much lighter, smaller and
easier to use. As a result, CleanSpace has gained immediate recognition in the industry since its release
nearly 2 years ago, and the products are being sold in Australia and more than 20 countries around the
world.
The company is now on a growing phase to penetrate and widen the applications in the industrial market.

Summary
To anticipate the growth of the company, an opportunity exists for a recent graduate or a student in his /
her final year from a tertiary education, majoring either in Electronics or Mechatronics Engineering, to work
within the companys engineering team as a trainee engineer.
Initially, the position is for a 3 month work experience within the engineering team on a no-pay basis. At the
end of the work experience period, it is possible for the successful applicant to become a paid part-time or
full-time employee, subject to mutual benefits, job availability and the company financial status at the time.

Job Description
Job Title: Trainee Engineer reporting to Chief Technical Officer
Responsibilities:

Sustaining Engineering on electrical related areas

General Electronics Engineering with hardware focus

Aim:
To learn and be trained to work independently and effectively to perform the electrical related tasks within
PAFtec Engineering and Production environment
Work Periods:
From January 2015 for 3 months, 8 hours a day, 3 to 5 days a week.
PAFtec Australia Pty Ltd
ABN 24 146 453 554
EF

Unit 3, 19 Hotham Parade

Artarmon NSW 2064 Australia
November 2014

P: 61 2 8436 4000
F: 61 2 8436 4020

www.paftec.com

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Duties:
Sustaining Engineering on electrical related areas, in particular,

Troubleshooting on issues from Production and Field Returns with electrical related matters,
including but not limited to motors, PCBAs, keypads, battery packs, AC Adaptors

Working with Engineering Team to come up with solutions and design optimizations to mitigate or
prevent issues from Production and Field Returns

Participate in Corrective And Preventative Action (CAPAs) for Field Returns

Continuously improve critical component specifications and QC procedures to keep improving the
quality of Goods Inwards, reducing QC rejects and field returns while reducing the manufacturing
time and costs

General Electronics Engineering, including

Design and build electronic test boards, jigs and fixtures for R&D and Production

Design and build electronic prototypes for new product concepts

Test and verify electronic design / prototypes

Evaluation of new / alternative electronic components

Communicate with suppliers on electrical design and manufacturing related issues

Skills and Competencies:

The position is for a bright young graduate engineer or a student in his or her final year from a tertiary
education majoring either in Electronics or Mechatronics Engineering. The ideal candidate should be a
self-starter and should be hands on, innovative, proactive, attention to details. He or she should also be a
team player and a good communicator.
Ideally, the candidate should have some practical hardware electronics experience, gained either from
previous work experience, solid university projects or electronics hobby projects. As a minimum, the
candidate should possess the following skills:

The ability to understand, analyze and design basic digital and analogue electronic circuits,
such as micro-controller circuits, linear and switch-mode power supply circuits, piezo-resistive
pressure sensor circuits, Op-Amp and Comparator circuits;

Basis understanding of battery charging principles and circuits, in particular, Lithium Ion
battery chargers;

Basic understanding of motors, motor control hardware and motor control theory, in particular,
BLDC and sensorless BLDC controllers;

Basic knowledge of EMC theory and techniques;

Sound soldering skill and an ability to solder small SMD components;

Familiar with common electronics tools, such as multi-meters, oscilloscopes, current probes;

PAFtec Australia Pty Ltd

ABN 24 146 453 554
EF

Unit 3, 19 Hotham Parade

Artarmon NSW 2064 Australia
November 2014

P: 61 2 8436 4000
F: 61 2 8436 4020

www.paftec.com

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Basic skill of schematic capture and PCB layout software, such as Altium Designer;

Basic skill of C programming language, in particular, writing C language application software

with micro-controllers;

The benefits expected from this work experience:

An opportunity to work and be guided by a friendly world-class engineering team;

Gain valuable work experience that could help find a suitable engineering job in the competitive job
market if desired;

An opportunity to learn from a broad range of engineering activities;

Possibility to become a part-time or full-time employee of the Company at the end of the work
experience period, subject to mutual benefits, job availability and the company financial status at
the time;

To grow with the company with an excellent prospect for a career development;

An opportunity to get involved and to experience in a dynamic and fast growing company at its
early stage of expansion.

PAFtec Australia Pty Ltd

ABN 24 146 453 554
EF

Unit 3, 19 Hotham Parade

Artarmon NSW 2064 Australia
November 2014

P: 61 2 8436 4000
F: 61 2 8436 4020

www.paftec.com

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