Electrical Engineer

We are looking for an Electrical Engineer to work on a 9-12 month FTC to support our Custom Hardware and Intelligent Cabinets team. The role will be focused on small scale electronic design, mixing mainly digital with some analogue components. They will be responsible for designing, developing, modifying and evaluating components and processes used in the generation, manipulation, transmission and storage of electricity. Determines design approaches and parameters. Analyses equipment to establish operating data and conducts experiments.

Responsibilities:

• Establishes requirements for highly complex electrical design projects and may lead a team responsible for establishing requirements.
• Architects and designs highly complex electrical projects.
• Completes all phases of the projects.
• Follows through on all in-process and final inspection activities.
• Develops and applies technical and quality improvements.
• Creates new programs, technologies and solutions based on novel or unique ideas.
• Ensures new ideas and methodologies are documented for use by hardware teams.
• Uses status as a knowledge leader in hardware design and functional knowledge across multiple engineering disciplines and program management to provide technical leadership to a given program.
• Defines requirements for and may design complex new tools to aid in the analysis and solving of complex problems.
• Initiates cross-company collaboration and develops positive relationships with other engineering disciplines.
• Exercises judgment (within broadly defined policies and practices) in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• May coordinate the activities of other personnel.
• Networks with key contacts outside own area of expertise.
• Interacts with management and senior customer personnel on matters requiring coordination across organizational lines.
• Represents the organization as the principal customer contact and often performs project leadership.

Key Skills:

• Small scale electronic design, mixing mainly digital with some analogue components.
• Must have schematic capture ability, ideally also working knowledge of PCB layout.
• Experience of designing electronics into existing housings, design to fit etc.
• Ability to optimise design for differing requirements.
• Ideally experience of designing with MCUs.
• Ideally some experience of writing MCU code in either C or Assembler.
• Ideally some knowledge of housing design, both metal and plastic.
• Experience of working in large organisations and the systems that go with that environment.
• Creating documentation based on design work, both for manufacturing and for end user consumption.
• Ability to write in clear concise English.
• Creating Functional Specs, PRDs and Test plans based on design criteria.
• Good communication skills, fluent English.

Tools:

• Experience of Cadence or similar schematic capture/PCB layout.
• Creo Parametric or similar 3D modelling CAD package.
• Ideally, experience of corporate Product Management systems such as Agile.