- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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