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Senior Electronic Engineer (Hardware)

Gerrell & Hard
Posted 17 days ago, valid for 25 days
Location

Yateley, Hampshire GU46, England

Salary

£65,000 per annum

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Our client is looking for an Electronic Hardware Team Lead based in Yateley, Hampshire, offering a salary of approximately £50k to £65k.
  • The ideal candidate should have a strong background in electronic engineering and at least 5 years of relevant experience.
  • This role involves leading and mentoring a team of engineers while also engaging in high-level engineering tasks, with a time split of approximately 30/70.
  • Key responsibilities include managing team dynamics, resource allocation, and overseeing the development and validation of new hardware designs.
  • Candidates should have experience in manufacturing, digital and analogue electronics, and be competent in using Altium for PCB design.
Electronic Hardware Team Lead
Yateley, Hampshire
Permanent
Circa £50k - 65k

Our client is seeking an Electronic Hardware Team Lead to report to their Head of Product Development.

Role Purpose
The Electronic Hardware Team Leader is an exceptional Engineer who demonstrates the capabilities to lead, mentor and manager other team members. The Electronics Team Leader can successfully manage conflict resolution between team members, has strong decision-making skills and acts with independence based on evidence coming from their direct reports. The Electronic Hardware Team Leaders time is split between electronic engineering activities (at a senior level) and managing a team of engineers. The expected balance of the role between team leading and carrying out engineering tasks is expected to be approximately 30/70 up to a maximum of 50/50.

Responsibilities
Team Leadership responsibilities:
Lead a team of engineering, ranging from experts in analogue, digital and PCB design to apprentices or junior members of the team.
Inspire, coach and lead direct reports to enable them to achieve individual and business goals.
Resource allocation - Understand who in their team is best placed to the achieve the products goals
Team administration, including goal setting and performance reviews.
Lead planning, architecture, development and validation of new hardware designs
Apply risk / mitigation techniques at all stages of the development cycle.
Mentor team members on technical matters to ensure they stay effective in their roles.
Drive technical conversations on products and cross-engineering improvements.
Investigate challenging and complex hardware issues, both in assistance to more junior members and directly with other areas of the business
The department is responsible for maintaining existing products and working closely with the NPI department to ensure successful transition between the development and production phase

Individual technical responsibilities:
You will design, develop, test and deliver high quality and reliability electronic hardware.
The scope of the role includes development of electronics hardware on a range of subsea instruments developed within the department from underwater acoustic modems, Doppler velocity logs to data loggers and much more.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Manufacturing
You will have had experience in a manufacturing company where you understand the consequences of the decisions you make and the importance of risk mitigation.

Digital Electronics
Focus on low power but highly complex digital systems involving a range of digital architectures including embedded Linux and FPGAs.

Analogue Electronics
Low noise, low power analogue receiver design as well as high voltage transmitter designs. Power consumption is often critical due to the power source being limited.

Simulation
Actively simulates designs to conform to the mantra right first time.

EMC
Understand the principles of designing to meet EN60945 and other relevant standards. Altium Competent Can create circuits and has basic knowledge of PCB design techniques.

Leadership Advanced
Can lead others by coaching them to make the right choices

Communication & Team Working
Proactively communicate and work effectively with other team members, and members of other teams throughout the business to achieve project deliverables

Embedded Software
Writing basic code to enable board bring-up and ensure testing is complete prior to hand over to Software Team

Qualifications
2:1 or above in relevant Engineering degree, such as Electronics, but not limited to.

To apply please send an MS Word formatted version of your CV across for our review and consideration.

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