Electronic Design Engineer

LB 106 - Design Engineer

Location: Clevedon

Salary: Circa £60,000

Overview:

First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Design Engineer on behalf of one of our clients.

Responsible for the design and maintenance of PCBs including hardware and firmware for the company range of thyristor and switch mode battery chargers.

Working closely with all departments and managers to support the delivery of business success.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• New PCB hardware and firmware design as part of the Design and/or Project team.
• Follows departmental processes relating to management of designs and the company-wide new product development processes.
• Write specifications and technical reports.
• Carries out detailed electronic circuit design, including simulation and design verification testing of the new design.
• Carries out PCB layout of designs.
• Selects new components/parts, taking into consideration obsolescence, availability and cost.
• Preparation of manufacturing packs for all PCB designs.
• Carries out detailed firmware design, including prototyping and design verification testing of the new design.
• Prepares and presents electronic designs to other members of the design team and project stakeholders at design reviews.
• All designs should follow DFM (Design for Manufacture) and DFT (Design for Test) principles, including PCB type testing, PCB manufacture testing and Charger level testing.
• Participates openly in peer reviews of other engineer’s designs.
• Documents design work and prepares reports, ensuring design files and information are kept up to date and stored in accordance with company procedures.
• Support existing production boards, dealing with hardware/firmware issues - involves working closely with the customer (internal or external) that flagged the issue.
• Support existing production boards, dealing with component obsolescence/availability problems - involves working closely with purchasing, suppliers and external sub-contractors (such as CEM’s - contract electronics manufacturers).
• Work closely with System and PCB Test assisting in developing and documenting test procedures for sub-systems and complete chargers.
• Ensure all relevant safety regulations are met in design related activities/areas, including actively reporting near misses.
• Attends training as required, develop skills and knowledge keeping up to date with latest technology.
• May be required to supervise technicians, sub-contractors and interns.
• Development projects may require interfacing to third party products and dealing directly with sub-contractor design teams.
• Provide technical training on new products to all key departments, e.g. Service, System Test, Production, Engineering and Sales.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Wide knowledge of the range of PCB’s and how the chargers work.
• Schematic layout (OrCad).
• PCB layout (OrCad).
• Use of electrical test equipment such as PSU’s, Load banks, DMM/DVM, oscilloscope/analysers, signal/function generators.
• Microsoft Office products including OneNote, Word, Excel and Teams/SharePoint.
• 123 Insight knowledge an advantage.
• Good specification writing skills.
• Use of version control software (SVN/Subversion).
• Methodical way of approaching design/test.
• Use of development boards and emulators to assist with embedded programming would be advantageous.