Senior Electronic Hardware Engineer

Senior Electronics Hardware Engineer

Senior Electronics Engineer

Benefits: BONUS PHC High pension 25 days holiday BH (33 in total)

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday with flexible start / finish times

Opportunity for a Senior Hardware / Senior Electronic Engineer to work as part of a skilled team supporting next generation New Product Development projects

If you're a Senior Electronics Engineer who enjoys solving complex design challenges, getting hands-on with hardware and taking technical ownership of projects, this role offers great scope and technical variety. Typically, you will manage a number of concurrent NPD project at varying stages of maturity and have full ownership of the projects from initial customer project through to delivery.

Joining a constantly innovating engineering and manufacturing business, you'll play a key role in developing sophisticated electronic hardware for high-reliability applications. You'll take designs from initial customer requirements and concept development through schematic capture, PCB development, prototyping, verification, qualification and manufacture.

It's a role offering broad technical scope across digital , analogue, mixed-signal and power electronics, alongside the opportunity to lead design reviews, solve challenging technical issues and provide guidance to other engineers.

As Senior Electronic Design Engineer you will:

Work closely with electronics, mechanical, test, manufacturing and commercial teams, you will take a lead role in electronic hardware development across the complete product lifecycle.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Design and development of analogue, digital, mixed-signal and power electronics
• Translating customer and system requirements into robust, practical electronic designs
• Schematic capture, PCB development and preparation of Bills of Materials using Altium
• Component selection, circuit simulation, engineering calculations and tolerance analysis
• Leading design reviews and verification & validation activities
• Development and testing of prototype circuits, cable assemblies, test equipment and production fixtures
• Hands-on electronic testing, debugging, fault-finding and root-cause analysis
• Supporting EMC and environmental qualification testing, resolving technical issues identified during testing
• Providing technical estimates for new projects, including cost, timescales, scope and potential technical risks
• Supporting PCB manufacture, prototype builds and introduction into production
• Managing component availability, lifecycle and obsolescence
• Supporting ongoing product and design improvements
• Working across multiple concurrent engineering projects
• Providing technical guidance and support to other engineers

We are looking for an experienced Senior Hardware Engineer / Electronics Design Engineer with a strong practical hardware design background who is comfortable taking ownership of projects whilst remaining hands-on technically.

Ideally, you will have:

• Degree, HNC/HND or equivalent experience within Electronics, Electrical Engineering or a related discipline
• Professional experience within electronic hardware design, ideally gained at Senior Engineer level
• Proven experience of analogue, digital and mixed-signal circuit design
• Experience of schematic capture and PCB development using Altium or similar
• Practical knowledge of PCB layout and Design for Manufacture (DFM)
• Hands-on experience of prototype development, assembly and electronic test equipment
• Strong debugging, fault-finding and root-cause analysis skills
• Good understanding of EMC-conscious electronic and PCB design
• Experience of design verification and validation
• The ability to communicate effectively with customers, suppliers, subcontractors and other engineering disciplines

Please apply via the link or contact Alison Kemp for further details