Want to join a company with over 30 years of experience in designing, manufacturing, and delivering highly bespoke simulator solutions?

Join a reputable business who have a number of awards, most recently been named as an Award winner (Gold Award) in MoD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme!

Join a team at an exciting time, at the start of re-defining their systems, with the opportunity to influence and shape the product!

Our client, a leading company in the Defence & Security industry, specialises in designing and manufacturing underwater systems. They are currently seeking a Senior Electronics Engineer to join their team. As a Senior Electronics Engineer, you will play a vital role in the development of complex electronics for their innovative systems.

Key Responsibilities as a Senior Electronics Engineer:

• Interpretation of system requirements and ability to decompose and flow them down into hardware requirements
• Conduct Electronics and/or Firmware development activities and reviews, covering full system, sub-system and individual board design/coding
• Ensure that the technical solution meets the customer, legislative and business requirements
• Responsible for some level of technical oversight of the engineering activities throughout the project lifecycle
• Responsible for supporting the team planning and estimation activities at the kick-off of new projects
• Act as Project Engineering Lead (PEL) and/or Work Package Manager (WPM) on one or more projects
• To identify and resolve qualification, certification and safety issues
• Produce project technical documentation, including management plans, requirements specifications, design documents, interface specifications and acceptance tests
• Approval of design change requests and concessions
• Coaching and mentoring of more junior Engineers
• Liaising with customers and suppliers as appropriate
• Overseeing initial test and integration including formal testing

Role Requirements:

• In-depth experience across the whole project lifecycle as electronics/firmware engineer, from bids and proposals through to in-service support (ideally from within the defence sector)
• Hands-on experience of designing complex systems involving multiple electronics disciplines and understanding of associated challenges / usual pitfalls
• Successful delivery of reliable solutions to timescale and budget as part of fixed price contracts
• Used to dealing with a wide range of stakeholders beyond Electronics Engineering domain (i.e. Project Management, Systems, Mechanical and Software Engineering) as part of multi-disciplinary project team to resolve issues that arise during the lifespan of a project
• Degree level (or equivalent) in engineering discipline
• Breadth of exposure to analog and digital technologies
• Design for EMC, Electrical Safety & Signal Integrity including schematic and PCB layout
• Exposure to appropriate branch of electronics (e.g. power/high speed digital/analogue/RF/Sonar)
• Familiarity with one or more PMRP and ECAD tools
• Design for manufacture, understanding of full project life cycle
• Prototyping, test and verification of electronic subsystems at PCB, unit and sub-system level
• Component selection and an understanding of associated issues to include obsolescence and environmental aspects (REACH, RoHS etc.)
• Use of standard office tools and knowledge of engineering tools such as DOORS, ERPs and Configuration Management tools
• The candidate must be capable of acquiring SC clearance as a minimum

If you have the skills and experience required for this role, we would love to hear from you! Please contact me for more detail.