Senior Electronics Engineer in Belfast

Location: Belfast, United Kingdom

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space.

Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

• Senior opportunity within our world class Electronics Team
• Exciting role with an industry leader undergoing significant growth
• Work alongside some of the best Engineers in the industry
• An industry leading salary
• Outstanding benefits package

Thales Integrated Airspace-protection Systems (IAS) UK designs and manufactures a range of cutting-edge technologies ranging from air surveillance and mission planning systems to missiles. The company specialises in lightweight missiles and the integration of weapon systems into various platforms along with the systems to manage and exploit critical mission planning and air surveillance data. Belfast is also home to the Thales’s global Space Electric Propulsion Integration Centre.

As a Senior Electronics Engineer you will be expected to design state-of-the-art electronic systems that deliver world-class performance. You will be working and developing alongside a multi-disciplinary team of 35 Electronics Engineers, who are some of the most experienced Engineers in the industry. Your role will span the entire product lifecycle from design requirements capture and analysis through to defining the system architecture and designing, building, testing and verifying that the solution meets the customer’s requirements.

The Senior Electronics role requires working within the team to optimise the design through trade-offs, studies, analyses, modelling and simulation to produce a best-in-class competitive product. Your responsibilities will include:

• Design of circuit assemblies and systems
• Contributing to development of electronic architectures to meet design requirements
• Component and subsystem evaluation
• Creating electronic schematics and working with PCB layout Engineers
• Testing, validation and debug of circuit assemblies
• Carry out development and integration testing of electronic assemblies
• Contribute to electronics specifications, development and verification plans
• Ensuring compliance to regulatory standards
• Support product fault finding and investigation activities

We are looking for experienced Electronics Engineers who have had exposure to safety critical working practices; there is not a requirement for the successful candidate to already possess experience of Aerospace/Defence, although this would be desirable. We are looking for someone who can demonstrate strong Electronic Design experience and who has had experience working within multi-disciplinary teams environments. The ideal candidate we are looking for would hold relevant engineering qualifications to either BEng or HND standard or equivalent.

You would also have experience in some of the following areas:

• Power Electronics
• Digital Electronics
• Analogue Electronics
• Electronics Architecture
• High Frequency Electronics
• Experience with electronics design and simulation tools

You would need to understand requirements for DFT and DFM and be able to demonstrate analytical and problem-solving skills. Transferrable skills may be considered where an application does not meet all the required criteria.

This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held; however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance. To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

We are committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation. Our packages will include significant bonus, a strong pension contribution, private healthcare, development focused targets and relocation support can be provided if required along with a variety of learning, development and career enhancement opportunities.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process.

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