Senior Electronics Engineer

Placed: 30/11/17
Region: Surrey
Category: Jobs


Content of the advertisement:

SENIOR ELECTRONICS ENGINEER
£40,000
Surrey
SE1410/510/511

Our client is a major company that provide a very specialist service to the Marine and Defence industries. They are medium volume manufacturer currently searching for a Senior Electronics Engineer to join their highly successful organisation.

Role Description:

* New product development (design & test). Existing product development (fault finding / improvement / enhancement). Support to Production Department test engineers, Engineers (after settling in) would be expected to design, prototype and document a circuit. Then take it through to a manufacturability state. This may be as part of a team.
* Senior Electronics Engineer with at least five years relevant experience to work on instrumentation and acoustic systems
* The work will involve mixed signal design including preamplifiers, filters, power supplies, interfacing and analogue digital conversion for precision instrumentation applications.
* The candidate will be expected to work independently or as a member of a team contributing to all aspects of the product development cycle from requirement analysis through design & development into production. Candidate would be expected to produce design documentation and test specifications.
* Candidate will be expected to provide technical support to Sales and Marketing for bidding/proposal writing and technical assistance to the Customer Support Manager and Production Department.
* Candidate would be expected to provide occasional offshore support as required including some overseas travel.
* The candidate will be a self-motivated engineer capable of running small development tasks independently. Example tasks include low-noise hydrophone preamplifier design or multichannel data logger design. Candidate will have to check another engineer's work.

Skills and Qualifications:

* Must have: BSc (2:1) or a higher degree in a relevant electronics-engineering course from a UK University
* Candidate should have at least five years' experience and specific expertise in analogue circuit design preferably in an instrumentation development environment.
* Some experience or knowledge of microprocessor based circuit design and embedded software would be desirable.
* Practical skills would be desirable but not essential.
* Candidates with a BSc (2:1) or a higher degree in a relevant electronics-engineering course from a UK University
* Basic Analog components / circuits (essential)
* Operational Amplifier circuits (essential)
* Power supply technology (essential)
* Circuit analysis, modelling and theory (essential)
* Analog-Digital Conversion (essential)
* Interfacing and IO (e.g. I2C and SPI bus) (essential)
* CAD Schematic layout (essential)
* CAD PCB design (essential)
* Experience of Cadence OrCAD PCB design tools (essential)
* Fault finding (desirable)
* Assembler and/or embedded 'C' (desirable)
* Use of PAL/FPGA technologies (desirable)
* Linux (desirable)
* Good written and presentational communication skills will be required (essential).

Benefits package:

* Salary up to £40,000
* Contributory pension scheme
* 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Company Information

As a business, our client is a market leader with a strong presence across the whole of the UK. With an established list of clients this role provides a stable and secure opportunity for a motivated engineer.



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