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 engineersWe 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 disciplinesPlease apply via the link or contact Alison Kemp for further details