Junior Electronics Engineer

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

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Job Description

We are looking for an electronics design engineer with a few years’ experience from graduation to join the Electronics Systems team at our technology centre in Melbourn, Herts.

The role will involve working closely with your colleagues on a wide range of assignments. You will support the creative technical solutions for break-out products and manufacturing processes and contribute to the wider electronics team. Your role may range from working on a novel wireless connected product, helping to develop a high-performance data processor to supporting the design of an innovative medical device. Our clients need us to work at the cutting edge and you will be ready to help.

Role specifics

At PA, you will be working within one of the most successful UK organisations in technology and product development, with a team who have an exceptional reputation for innovation and delivery across a range of industries such as consumer well-being, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and medical devices.

Our team includes industry-leading experts in electronics, software development, mechanical engineering, applied science and industrial design. We offer all our engineering professionals career progression and tailored training to equip them with the tools they need to tackle complex and challenging projects through their careers.

Flexible working – We are guided by our client work and needs; however, you have autonomy to manage your time and diary to suit your work/life balance.

Qualifications

You should have a knowledge and an interest across one or more of these areas:

• Digital electronics – DSP, FPGA
• Microcontrollers, Microprocessors and embedded hardware design.
• Embedded software development in C
• Power electronics and switch mode power supply design.

We look for the following qualities in our people:

• Energy and enthusiasm to take on new challenges in a diverse range of industry sectors coupled with the ability to innovate and think freely.
• Willingness to support others on your team and not be afraid to get ‘hands-on’ to overcome challenges.

This is a great chance to use your abilities in electronics engineering across a wide range of industry sectors and problem spaces.

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application.

Additional Information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples’ experience at PA. It’s about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We’re focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

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Job Location

PA Consulting Global Innovation and Technology Centre

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