Senior Electronics Engineer

Job Title: Senior Electronics Engineer

Reports to: Hardware Manager

Salary: £50 000 - £60 000

Location: South Wales/Hybrid

Company Information:

We specialize in designing and manufacturing innovative monitoring and telemetry solutions for critical networks and infrastructure. Our products serve a range of industries, including water, wastewater, gas, and energy management, as well as environmental monitoring.

With over 30 years of expertise in clean water and distribution system monitoring, we have recently expanded into broader sectors, including utility consumption, gas network monitoring, and flood and environmental management. Our solutions empower customers to optimize operations, conserve resources, reduce costs, and enhance sustainability.

We are part of a larger global group, comprising over 40 companies, all focused on creating technologies that protect lives and improve quality of life across industries worldwide.

Main Tasks:

• Driving development and innovation taking on responsibility for product electronic designs and prototyping.
• Leading product design reviews & continuous improvement activities.
• Develop + test solutions to problems to ensure product quality. Identify and recommend product improvements to improve technical performance.
• Understanding, compiling, and managing the implementation of customer requirements flow for hardware design through to internal and external suppliers.
• Carrying out acceptance activities for products submitted by supplier organisations.
• Leading the qualification, test, and requirements management aspects of physical design, including EMC and radio performance.
• Mentoring and assisting more junior members of the team in the execution of their duties.
• Carrying out feasibility studies for new technical innovations. Attending meetings, writing reports, and giving presentations to managers and clients.
• Travel within UK and abroad may occasionally be required.

Confidential

Experience and Skills Required

• Excellent academic record in Electrical/Electronic Engineering. 5-10 years' experience in both analogue and digital electronic hardware design within a relevant industry.
• Extensive experience of analogue and digital design including microcontrollers, low power design, high-speed digital design, amplifiers, filters, ADC/DAC, designing for low cost/high volume and lithium battery power management.
• Experience of simulation using Spice as well as schematic capture, PCB layout and library management (Altium or similar).
• Self-motivated to work with minimal supervision on multiple simultaneous projects leading a small team of Engineers.
• Good communication skills verbally and in writing (producing design documentation).
• Good knowledge of compliance requirements - CE, FCC, EMC, RoHS, etc.
• Undertake activities related to product certification.
• High volume manufacturing experience.
• Obsolescence/EOL management.
• Experience of working in a highly regulated environment (medical, aviation etc).

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience working in the design, implementation and testing of algorithms and Digital Signal Processing.
• Embedded firmware skills in C.
• Modelling and analytical skills in MATLAB/Octave or similar.
• Radio system and antenna design including certification.
• Design-in experience with microcontrollers such as ARM, AVR or MSP430.
• Experience with GSM/GPRS technology.
• Power converter systems design.
• FPGA/CPLD & HDL experience.
• Audio systems design.
• DFMEA/RA/DFM experience.
• Experience of designing products for intrinsic safety (ATEX, IECEx, Hazloc).
• Experience of working with/selection of contract electronics manufacturers.

Qualifications:

• Educated to Degree level in a relevant field.

Personal attributes:

Committed, flexible, excellent time management skills, ability to work under pressure.