Senior Electronics Engineer - Manufacturing in Royston

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and highly skilled Electronics Engineering Lead working for our brilliant client based in rural Cambridgeshire and close to Royston. This is a great opportunity to join a thriving company within their Manufacturing Engineering team and collaborate within the wider company teams. This is a full-time permanent position and the salary is negotiable depending on experience.

The company is a global leader in the development and manufacture of advanced gas detection instrumentation and sensing technologies, for a vast range of industries. With a commitment to innovation, quality and safety, the company empowers industries worldwide to enhance workplace environments and safeguard lives. They have grown steadily and consistently since they started over 36 years ago and offer a superb place to work, thrive and be part of something truly exciting. Having won the Queens Award for Enterprise within the innovation category, the company values are at the core of everything they do, so with each recruit as they grow, they are seeking like-minded people to help build on the success which they already enjoy.

The role involves joining the company as a key member of the Manufacturing Engineering team and taking responsibility for developing best-in-class PCBA and Product Testing capability, along with diagnostic support to ensure that the Manufacturing Operations can run reliably and efficiently. In addition, you will take the lead in managing projects to support the introduction of new products, processes and automated test equipment. This role requires advanced electronics engineering expertise, combined with a hands-on approach to provide exceptional diagnostic support to Quality, Manufacturing and Engineering teams and deliver robust production processes and test solutions.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Take responsibility and provide leadership in a small team of Electronic Manufacturing & test engineers to meet departmental objectives and provide technical support to Manufacturing.
• Lead projects to deliver New Products, Processes and Equipment into Manufacturing, utilising best in class automated manufacturing processes and test solutions.
• Design, specify, develop, validate and document automated test and verification processes/solutions to meet the requirements of the Manufacturing team and to develop the capacity to meet current and future customer requirements.
• Work with both Manufacturing and R&D teams to develop data acquisition from key test and manufacturing equipment (K stations) to enable data driven decisions and improvements.
• Provide exceptional support to Manufacturing by conducting structured problem solving & root cause analysis to diagnose issues and provide robust solutions.
• Work closely with external suppliers as well as in-house R&D, PVL, Quality, Manufacturing and Engineering teams to resolve high priority issues.
• Provide good quality “design for manufacture and test” inputs for the Project Development teams.
• Fault finding and repair of precision electronic PCBA’s.
• Support the Manufacturing and test processes of all PCBA variants via all the relevant in-house processes, equipment & relevant IPC standards, providing training where applicable.
• Maintain high quality documentation using the company documentation systems.
• Help develop and support the Manufacturing Teams by ensuring that in-house processes, test, inspection & rework comply with best practice and relevant IPC standards.
• Participate in and lead continuous improvement activities to develop and improve the manufacturing capability in the PCBA, Product Manufacturing and Calibration Processes.

The Person:

For this important role within the company, we are seeking someone with the following skills and attributes:

• Ideally educated to degree level within a relevant technical subject – Electronics or related engineering subject.
• Advanced Electronic & Electrical Design measurement competence.
• Able to lead others effectively at all levels.
• The ability to design electronics circuits and PCB layouts for test and programming equipment using modern CAD packages.
• Skilled in conducting structured root cause analysis of advanced & high sensitivity electronics to enable robust problem solving and solutions.
• Understanding and experience of working with various types of Firmware and Software and ideally, some basic coding ability.
• Experience of working with modern SMT/PCBA and AOI related machines and related processes and equipment and TPM maintenance.
• Safety conscious and possess a high degree of precise manual dexterity.
• A willingness to learn and develop.
• Excellent team player with the ability to build a good rapport with internal departments.
• In-depth knowledge of working within a formal QMS (ISO9001 or equivalent) in relation to technical design and manufacturing business.

This role is offered on a Full-time, permanent basis. The salary offered is depending on experience and plus benefits. Due to the rural nature of the location, candidates must be able to drive to site.