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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

Verification stage:

Generation of test plans

Generation of test software specifications to support the hardware verification process

Perform and document product verification against the specifications, this can include but is not limited to evaluation of high speed digital interfaces, analogue front ends, power supplies over the full operating temperature range

Take output readings from the product and perform mathematical analysis and interpretation on them to confirm and display to others that the product is operating correctly

Identify solutions to deviations from the specification that are identified and generate relevant engineering change notes (ECN) and engineering change requests (ECR)

Liaise with customers and other stakeholders during the verification to keep them up to date with your progress

Support products through testing at accredited laboratories to ensure they meet the required national standards such as CE, UKCA, UL etc

Industrialisation stage:

Generation of specifications for production test jigs in collaboration with the software and manufacturing teams to enable the manufacturing engineering team to order the jig

Assist the manufacturing engineering team with verification of the test jig should they require more in depth technical insight

Work with the manufacturing team and customers to ensure that any DFM / DFA feedback is documented and implemented if appropriate

Interdepartmental support:

Review designs generated by both peer and junior engineers and provide your insight on where any issues may exist

Provide mentoring and support in electronics to other engineers and departments

Review manufacturer PCNs to understand the impact of component obsolescence on our customers and to generate and implement an action plan with the sales and procurement teams

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