Senior Electronic Design Engineer

Role: Senior Electronic Design Engineer

Location: Chester

Salary: competitive + benefits

Hours of Work: 37 hours

We are looking for an enthusiastic Senior Electronics Design Engineer to join the team in producing innovative solutions. Utilising a wide range of exciting technologies, you will develop new products, systems and features. You will be working alongside colleagues who have many years' experiences in product development and be involved in the full lifecycle, from feasibility to release to production and on-going support, working with the Company's adaptive development methodology to deliver systems that exceed customer expectations and achieve the highest quality.

Job Role & Duties:

Creating innovative designs that fulfil challenging user and performance requirements
Proactively driving the development of targeted work items
Further define and specify items prior to design
Ensuring designs meet requirements via prototyping/testing and certification
Using experience and technical best practice to overcome problems
Ensuring that designs comply with the appropriate international standards
Driving the EMC certification process and meeting those requirements
Adopting good design principles to mitigate supply chain dependencies
Identification, communication and solution proposal for technical issues and risk management
Supporting other teams in all matters relating to electronic designs, their build and testing
Interfacing with other teams to support company activities
Analysis, selection and testing of alternative components
Developing your knowledge of products, general practice and procedural areas
Any other duties as and when required to maintain efficiency of the department/Company

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

Use your experience to help guide designs at all stages, from concept to release to manufacture
Understand, help develop and operate within company processes and procedures
Ensuring designs are testable and ensure test plans are in place for all work items
Maintaining D&D support for purchasing, production and operations
Prototype bring-up, testing and reporting
Support the design, certification and release to manufacture process
Proactively taking on assignments as well as addressing any assigned
Ensure work is documented
Mentoring of junior members
Proactively raise issues or risks, discovered or foreseen

Key Skills:

Degree/HND/HNC or equivalent
experience in Electrical/Electronic engineering
Knowledge of more than one PCB CAD design packages for high-tech product designs. (Ideally, including Altium)
Circuit Modelling and Simulation, SPICE, WEBENCH etc
Working with hazardous voltages and safe working practices
Hands-on prototyping, testing and fault finding to component level
Experience of designing for EMC (reducing emissions / increasing immunity) and taking product through compliance
Networked / IOT / IIOT product design experience
Design for manufacture experience
Prototyping systems virtually, or on the bench prior to design works
Fault-finding at component and system levels
Seeking alternative components and ensuring they meet requirements
Working with hazardous voltages
Ensuring health and safety is appropriate for the task
Familiar with common peripheral interfaces, such as I2C, SPI, and high-speed memory interfaces etc.
Working within an industrial environment
Experience of designing for EMC (reducing emissions / increasing immunity) and taking product through compliance
Mixed Analogue, Digital and Power electronic design experience for embedded systems
Experience of digital/analogue hardware techniques and fault-finding procedures

How to apply?

Please send a CV to k

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