Hardware Design Engineer
Purpose
Are you ready to bring your hardware design skills to life? As a Hardware Design Engineer, you'll create cutting-edge hardware solutions for cool electronic systems. Your mission: deliver top-notch designs that are on time, budget-friendly, and meet the highest safety and quality standards. Plus, you'll get to troubleshoot, solve problems, and keep things running smoothly while driving continuous improvement.
What You'll Be Doing
- Design and develop awesome hardware for electronic systems that hit all the right deadlines and specs.
- Keep your designs efficient and cost-friendly (while still being cool, of course!).
- Stay on top of best practices, always looking for ways to make your designs even better (and future-proof!).
- Make sure everything follows the safety rules and quality standards (safety first!).
- Crush those KPIs, like right-first-time designs, cost efficiency, and on-time delivery.
- Build great relationships with other teams and keep the communication flowing.
- If any health, safety, or HR issues pop up, you'll be the first to let the Engineering Manager know.
What They Expect
- You'll bring your A-game in hardware design, technical skills, time management, and problem-solving.
- Zero accidents, over 95% right-first-time designs, and more than 95% on-time delivery-let's hit those numbers!
- Stick to deadlines, keep costs in check, and make sure everything is top quality.
- Oh, and be ready for random drug and alcohol testing (just in case!).
What You Bring
- A strong grasp of electronics hardware design, along with health and safety knowledge.
- 5+ years of experience in hardware design within electronics, plus skills in value engineering and continuous improvement.
- A degree in Electronics Engineering (or something similar).
- You're motivated, logical, and love being part of a team. Oh, and you thrive on innovation and bringing fresh ideas to the table.
What You'll Do:
- Design, implement, and perfect cutting-edge hardware solutions.
- Track project progress and smash those KPIs.
- Make sure all your designs are safe, industry-compliant, and obsolescence-tolerant.
- Collaborate with software engineers and get hands-on with debugging.
- Lead smaller projects and contribute to larger ones.
- Follow best practices, all while finding ways to improve and innovate.
What You Need:
- A degree in Electronics Engineering or an NVQ Level 5 equivalent.
- 3+ years of practical experience in electronics hardware design.
Must-have experience:
- Analogue audio systems.
- Microcontroller/processor work (STM32, Arm9, PIC).
- Reverse engineering techniques.
Nice-to-have experience:
- Transformer and power supply design.
- FPGA/CPLD.
- CCTV/Networking.
- DFMEA and knowledge of railway industry standards.
Perks:
- Basednear Nottingham just minutes from the M1.
- Salary between £40,000 - £60,000 (depending on experience), plus annual salary reviews.
- 37-hour workweek, with an early finish every Friday!
- 25 days holiday (plus the option to buy 5 more).
- Pension: employee contribution +2%, capped at 12%.
- BUPA healthcare.
- A fun, rewarding career with room to grow, learn, and try new ideas.
Modis International Ltd acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers in the UK. Modis Europe Ltd provide a variety of international solutions that connect clients to the best talent in the world. For all positions based in Switzerland, Modis Europe Ltd works with its licensed Swiss partner Accurity GmbH to ensure that candidate applications are handled in accordance with Swiss law.
Both Modis International Ltd and Modis Europe Ltd are Equal Opportunities Employers.
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