Electronics Design Manager in Cambridge

As the Electronics Design Manager you will have expertise in managing teams of functional focused engineers to support electronics designs through the whole of the product lifecycle and be comfortable working in, and managing, a talented multidisciplinary team, developing new products and processes from concepts to realisation. You will have an active role in developing new design approaches, methodologies and defining technology roadmaps within the electronics design team. The team is responsible for analogue, digital and firmware development on the hardware platforms to support advanced feature sets required by the market. In addition, the team supports the creation of custom test and process electronics to enable efficient production of Polatis products.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage team of electronics design engineers to deliver robust, high-quality, cost-effective architecture and design solutions.
• Design ownership for all electronic aspects of the Polatis products, and delivery into high-volume reliable products.
• Manage teams in a cross-functional, agile manner to deliver hardware design from concept through to successful delivery of product into manufacturing.
• Implement DFM, DFT as needed to ensure a robust supply chain and manufacturing process.
• Ensure adherence to relevant quality systems and engineering processes.
• Ensure all designs are documented and released as per the defined processes.
• Strong digital design skills including modern communications for robust scalable intra-circuit designs.
• Fluent in current technologies, design methodologies and advanced simulation/modelling techniques.
• In-depth knowledge of control systems and real-time control loops.
• Experience managing complex PCB designs using a mixture of analogue and digital electronics.
• Experience managing designs with FPGA, DSP, and embedded processor systems.
• Requirements management – eliciting requirements from key stakeholders, driving requirement flow-down and justification, managing requirement changes.
• Architecture definition and assessment – work with design leads to develop system and sub-system architectures to meet market requirements, derive sub-system requirements, interfaces and constraints, carry out system functional and behavioural studies.
• Fibre-optim switch development and transfer to manufacturing – work with the design team to drive design for cost and manufacture, including manufacturing process/materials introduction, supporting improvements in quality, reliability, yields and costs; and the reduction of supply-chain risk.
• Integration and testing – capture test requirements and plans, manage compliance to relevant safety and environmental standards.
• Work cross-functionally with multiple teams with a wide range of specialisations and differing goals, including electronics, optics, mechanical design, software, production, and quality.
• Promote the Product Evolution Process within HUBER+SUHNER Polatis, with particular focus on embedding Systems Engineering practices into the design and development phases.

Your Profile

• Excellent planning, detail conscientiousness and organisational excellence.
• Cohesive and inclusive team member.
• Constant innovator and solutions provider.
• Excellent communicator in one-to-one and group situations.
• Client-service champion.
• Detail-driven with a strong sense of urgency.
• Prepared to take on additional challenges as and when they develop.
• Ability to sustain energy levels under pressure, cope with unexpected or disruptive changes and adapt.
• Linking knowledge of self – values, confidence, and optimism to that adaptation.

Essential Professional Qualities

• Strong technical leadership skills; adept at creating a vision and driving a team cohesively.
• Extensive industrial experience, preferably in a telecommunications environment, with a proven track record of delivering complex products against demanding timescales.
• Qualified to at least degree level in electronics or related engineering discipline (or equivalent through experience).
• Skilled at managing programmes in an agile, fast-paced environment.
• Familiar with all aspects of product lifecycle management and design review processes.
• Good knowledge of reliability engineering and design for manufacture.
• Confident, concise and convincing in written and oral presentations.
• Self-starter, passionate about quality, driven by achievement.

Essential Personal Qualities

• Positive and effective team player and leader.
• Strong competitor with the highest personal demands and standards.
• Visible desire to achieve and for others to do so.
• Influencing and persuasive.
• Decisive and action-oriented.
• Ownership of the electronics roadmap, architecture design and simulation/modelling.
• Drive detailed requirements capture and management using a systems engineering approach.
• Design & implementation of hardware design, using schematic capture, for both digital and analogue electronics.
• Validation testing and qualification of resilient hardware and firmware designs.
• Ensure all electronics designs comply to relevant safety and EMC standards and support.
• Systems Engineer in executing the Safety, EMC, and other certification of products.
• Support supply chain and supplier quality team to ensure high quality, cost-effective and predictable supply of all electronics components to production facilities.
• Ensure adherence to the relevant quality systems and engineering processes supplier and customer management relating to electronic design elements.
• Employee performance management, employee development, recruitment.
• Commitment to quality and on-time delivery, through full budgetary control at the electronics design level.

Key Performance Indicators

• Quality, compliance and safety of all projects.
• Adherence and overachievement of specific project KPIs.
• Delivery of standard processed and hence quality electronic designs that deliver value for the end user.
• Innovative solutions to project bottlenecks as and when identified.
• Client and supplier feedback.
• Departmental and organisational feedback.

Typical Decisions

• Action against existing and emerging issues (technical and commercial).
• Development action for self.
• Design decisions.

Summary of Technical Capabilities and Competencies

• Full lifecycle management; capable of managing design packages from concept to full product delivery.
• Experience in developing scalable, robust hardware architecture.
• Strong analogue design skills including mixed-signal (DAC/ADC), sensor design, low-noise/low-power amplifier/power design, HV drive of piezo/MEMS devices.
• Experience working with external partners on custom IC designs and outsourced work packages.
• Innovative and dynamic.