Are you an experienced Electronics Engineer with a strong Hardware background? We are looking for an experienced Electronics Engineer to join our clients team, a successful growing business in the Basingstoke area.
Senior Electronics Engineer (Hardware)
Basingstoke
Electronics Manufacturing
Permanent
Mission
The mission of the Senior Electronics Engineer is to develop and improve electronic products from initial concepts throughout the development process to being ready for mass production. This involves planning, organizing, and coordinating all aspects of specification, design and verification process as well as the hand over to the production department for manufacture.
Additionally, the Senior Electronics Engineer plays a crucial role in mentoring, advising, and supporting both junior staff and other departments where electronics knowledge input is required.
The Senior Electronics Engineer is responsible for ensuring that products are designed in a timely manner, meeting customer demands and deadlines, whilst adhering to budget constraints.
Key Responsibilities and Duties
The Senior Electronics Engineer has numerous responsibilities and duties across the full electronic product development cycle as well as in supporting the rest of the business on a technical basis. The core items are:
- Management of own time plans to ensure that agreed deadlines are met and that your colleagues and managers are notified at the earliest opportunity in the event that you think a deadline needs to move
- To display ownership of the projects you are working on by collaborating with the wider project team to find and implement solutions to any problems that occur.
- Interfacing with other departments to ensure everyone is aware of when your and their deliverables are due to each other
- Use of revision control and other company systems to ensure that your work is stored in an orderly, easy to navigate manner
- To stay abreast of current technologies and make suggestions where they could be used within the business
- To help all departments specify the correct electronic measurement and test equipment for evaluation of electronic circuits and to help define the correct calibration procedure for each item
- Ensuring compliance with ISO9001 and other relevant quality standards/procedures in your area. This includes reporting any deviations from these standards/procedures, completing corrective actions and making recommendations to prevent similar deviations in the future.
- Ensuring the engineering lab is kept in good order in terms of tidiness and organisation
- Take reasonable care for your own Health and Safety and the Health and Safety of those around you, or those who may be affected by your actions
Specification stage:
- Capture of customer electronics design requirements
- High level system architecture and feasibility decisions by bringing the electronics design input to the multi-disciplinary engineering team
- Generation and ownership of the electronics elements of FSD's (Functional Specification Documents)
- Generation of time estimations for the design, implementation, verification and industrialisation of projects
Implementation stage:
- Make informed design decisions by choosing the correct components and topologies based on the project specification and requirements
- Perform circuit (SPICE) and board level signal integrity (SI) simulations to support your design decisions where appropriate
- Creation of parts within the components database
- Schematic creation using Cadence Capture CIS or similar
- PCB Layout using Cadence PCB Designer or similar
- Manage, create and review of schematic symbols, layout footprints and padstacks
- Manage, create and review DFM / DFA rules to ensure designs are manufacturable
- Define the operating parameters of configurable parts that you have placed in a design to enable the software team to understand the requirements
- Liaise with and review data from 3rd party PCB design and SI simulation houses
- Liaise with customers and other stakeholders during the implementation to keep them up to date with your progress
- Generation of manufacturing packs, engineering change notes etc
- Handover to production stage for prototypes and production:
- Preparation of new production introduction (NPI) documentation and ensuring all relevant tasks are completed so that your NPI handovers to production run smoothly
- Ordering bare PCB boards for protype runs from our approved PCB suppliers
- Assisting the production department with any issues that arise during the PCBA manufacture
Benefits:
- Competitive salary commensurate with experience
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, and Christmas shutdown period
- Life assurance
- 9% pension
- Opportunities for professional development and career advancement
- Dynamic and collaborative work environment with a focus on innovation and continuous improvement