Role: Digital Electronics Engineer

Location: Huddersfield

Salary: competitive

Role:

Digital Electronics Engineer who will be a key contributor to the product development team, providing electronics expertise, and with an opportunity to take ownership of a wide range of tasks.

Focussing on ultrasonic corrosion monitoring and defect detection, using wired and wireless enabled devices, this role will require the design and development of hardware and embedded software for manufacturing sensor and systems product solutions to support the needs of clients and meeting company goals.

An exciting and varied product focussed role requiring an individual with excellent practical and technical skills, with the capability to work independently and lead projects with external suppliers and contractors, as well as integrating analogue electronics and power management to systems that can be used in explosive or hazardous environments.

You will work closely with ultrasonics engineers and business development teams to meet the expectations of client demands in products that will see service in Aerospace, Automotive, Nuclear, Manufacturing, Plant, Process Control and Oil & Gas sectors.

Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

Responsibilities:

• Manage projects to develop sensor & system products to customers' sites across Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Nuclear, Fossil Fuel Energy and Process Control following the Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) process.
• PCBA design, appraisal and prototyping to ISO 13485 design control and compliance, selecting appropriate components and with robust layout.
• Specifying design requirements for electronic hardware, including in wireless and wired communication, data storage, power management and integrating with analogue ultrasonic modules.
• Liase with suppliers and produce bill-of-materials for new board designs.
• Firmware appraisal, modification, development, validation and verification
• Diagnose performance of PCBA designs and components, testing prototypes for correct functionality, compliance and certification, and ensure operational testing once in manufacture.
• Fault finding and repair of PCBAs and finished devices. Support existing hardware in operational use.
• Debugging and customer led modifications to software and capability.
• Leading electronics design development within the scope of ATEX and IECEx explosive environment requirements
• Become a technical expert in the application of the technology with a strong focus on the needs of the customer.
• To provide technical advice to specified clients as part of the business development process, supporting and working with sales and technical colleagues.
• Present progress and feedback from development activities to technical and commercial colleagues to support product development.
• To support the technical marketing activity and generate data to support presentations, case studies and marketing communications.

Essential skills and personal attributes:

• At least 5 years experience of designing digital circuits including using embedded processors and FPGAs, digital signal processing and filtering
• Demonstrable understanding of modern design simulation and verification tools.
• Programming of embedded software / firmware in a common language, such as C /C++
• Knowledge of instrumentation, sensors and monitoring system products within the Oil & Gas, Energy and Process Control sectors.
• Experience of working under a quality management system, including documentation control, change and configuration management.
• Excellent project management skills and experience of successful project delivery
• Good communication skills to articulate aspects of electronics development to other engineering disciplines.
• Entrepreneurial, innovative and resourceful, able to work independently to meet deadlines within a small team, working in a dynamic SME environment.
• Comfortable helping with any tasks and learning new skills in other engineering areas.

Desirable skills and attributes:

• A degree or equivalent in Electronic Engineering or related field
• Experience of analogue circuits, especially ultrasonics.
• Knowledge or experience in 4-20mA, ModBus or HART wired - or WirelessHART, Bluetooth or LoRa wireless communication.
• Experience of EMC management and testing
• Knowledge of intrinsically safe circuits
• Experience of meeting compliance to standards and technical file control

How to apply?

Please send a CV to (url removed)

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