Circuit Board Designer in Gloucester

Salary up to £60,000 depending on experience.

Location: Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire.

Hybrid working: 2 days/week on site.

Renishaw design and manufacture high quality metrology instrumentation and control systems. The PCB Design role is to work within a busy, vibrant PCB design environment, creating new and maintaining existing PCB designs and assemblies using the current Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, and operating with Renishaw PCB processes to support our in-house manufacturing.

The role will include the creation of complete PCB design packages including the design data, fabrication, and assembly drawings and all supporting design files. The main role of the PCB designer will be to develop PCB designs which will include creating and checking associated design documentation and working with others in the PCB design team to support this.

The role will require regular contact with electronic designers and production engineers and will also require that the library data and processes be reviewed and maintained to ensure a high quality of design integrity. It is anticipated that the PCB designer is capable of timely and swift design creation and maintenance as many of the designs are used within a dynamic environment for both prototype and production products.

The position offers an opportunity to develop PCB designs to suit a variety of products which includes both rigid and flexi board designs, multiple layer count, high performance and both analogue and digital designs within a research and development environment. Working with defined best practice procedures and maintaining an understanding of the latest technology, the PCB designer will be required to work closely with other engineers to develop the worlds leading products for metrology.

• Creating complete design packages to include all PCB design data.
• Read, understand and interpret engineering drawings & electronic circuit symbols.
• Review and check design data to ensure production standards are maintained.
• Working confidently and liaising with PCB and project design team members.

Requirements:

• HNC Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience of designing with high-speed digital design, analogue or complex circuits, including fine pitch components (BGA) and high pin count devices.
• Experience of working within an engineering design environment.
• Understanding electronic design documentation (schematic and layout definitions).
• Familiarity of PCB fabrication and assembly processes.
• PC literate and familiar with Microsoft Office.
• Understanding of Product Data Management (PDM) systems.
• An understanding of electronic circuits and components.

We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, subsidised onsite restaurants and coffee shops, free parking, car sharing scheme and 24 hour fitness centres. We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.