Electronics Design Engineer in Manchester

This position reports to the Senior Manager - MALDI Group. The role will be based in the company's R&D Department and focus on the development of new, sophisticated, electronic systems & subsystems. Working with enthusiastic Physicists, Software, Mechanical and Production Engineers, the work will encompass the full product life cycle from system design specifications through to manufacture.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the company health and safety procedures are adhered to all the time, only operating equipment for which you are suitably qualified or have received suitable training.
• Production of the specifications for new designs.
• Detailed design and associated documentation (schematics, PCB layouts and PLD/FPGA configurations).
• Provide the Senior Manager Electronics and/or R&D Manager with as accurate as possible, estimates of timescales for designs.
• Use the Management Information Systems for creating and controlling bills of materials, drawing numbers and bought out parts.
• Raising Manufacturing Change Notes for design changes and enhancements.
• Raising permits and concessions as appropriate to allow production to continue.
• The implementation of approved changes to the design.
• Liaison with new and old suppliers both on and off site.
• Liaison with Fitters and Test Engineers.
• Building prototype assemblies.
• Meet appropriate company, national and international standards in product design, e.g., ISO61010, ISO13485, 21CFR820 etc.
• To keep up to date with available third-party components.
• To keep up to date with design techniques of analogue and digital circuits as well as PLD/FPGA design.
• To raise Design Change Requests whenever problems or opportunities arise.
• Evaluation and testing of prototype designs.
• Investigation of problems found on existing designs in engineering, test and from field failures.
• Provide support to the Purchasing team to evaluate new and existing suppliers.
• Providing technical assistance and advice to colleagues as required.

Qualifications:

• BSc/BEng degree in Electronics (or equivalent experience/competences). Essential

Experience (Essential/Desirable):

• Experience in the development of XPS or MALDI Mass Spectrometer instruments, (or similar scientific or medical devices) to FDA (where applicable) and other requirements with demonstrable experience of at least 5 years (D)
• Experience designing both digital and analogue electronics, preferably including FPGA design skills. (E)
• Experienced with electronic simulations, design verification (E)
• Experience of full product life cycle from design to volume manufacture (E)
• Experience of designing for EMC, RoHS and UL approved products is a benefit. (D)
• Experience with component/product risk assessment and FMEA. (D)

Job Related Aptitude and Skills (Essential/Desirable):

• Good all-round electronics design skills and experience; designing embedded FPGA control and acquisition systems will be considered an advantage. (E)
• High speed digital design, microcontroller/microprocessors, memory, timing (E)
• Analogue design, power management, sensor interfaces, ADC/DACs, amplifiers and control. (E)
• Schematic Capture and PCB Design – Altium, “Cadstar” preferred. (E)
• Communication interface design from board to board and network connectivity (E)
• High Voltage design knowledge is an advantage (D)
• C/C++ firmware, VHDL design and Xilinx “Microblaze” experience an advantage. (D)
• Good team player (E)
• Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status, or a willingness to work towards professional registration, would be an asset. (D)