Senior Electrical / Electronics Engineer

Key Tasks & Responsibilities

• Working as part of a multi-disciplined development team.
• Able to tackle both analytical and practical work when required.
• Define and execute work packages and sub tasks of major projects.
• Provide accurate feedback to Project Managers on timescales, progress and costs.
• Involvement with the full product lifecycle from a Project brief, Design Proposals, Design, Implementation in Manufacturing, and Support.
• Analysis of existing electronic designs, original electronic design in Analogue and Digital Electronics.
• Producing detailed designs for product development, evaluation and system evaluation.
• Documenting your work thoroughly and participating in peer reviews.
• Prototyping designs, testing them and producing test documentation and reports.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant safety, electrical, EMC standards, the EU Machinery Directive, the EU Low Voltage Directive, and UL standards.
• Coaching & mentoring more junior members of the electronics team.
• Liaising and working with other departments where necessary to ensure the fulfillment of the task requirements, e.g. Sales Support, Manufacturing and Service departments.
• Working with external suppliers with for component design, specification and integration.

Key Competencies (includes skills)

• A keen interest in Engineering and Technology (may be evident from outside interests, history)
• Demonstrable competency in design & analysis of Analog, Digital and Power Electronics
• Proven design work in the area of Analog Sensors, Filter design, Signal processing and Instrumentation electronics.
• Knowledge of Closed Loop Control theory, 3-Phase brushless motor drives.
• Familiarity with Engineering tools, such as PLM, CAD, Cadence, ePLAN.
• Knowledge of VHDL and some experience of FPGA based design.
• Excellent English language written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-motivated completer-finisher.
• A detail-oriented person who is thorough.
• Ability to carry out engineering development tasks with peer review.
• Ability to inter-relate with other disciplines.
• Ability to design for quality, performance, serviceability, reliability and cost effectiveness.