Senior Electronics Engineer

Location

Rochdale, Lancashire | United Kingdom

Job description

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When you join TT, you join our global community of visionaries, creators, and achievers dedicated to solving technology challenges for a sustainable world. Simply put, we are a global manufacturer with a passion for engineering advanced electronics that benefit our planet and people for future generations. We are committed to having a positive impact on the world through a culture built around safety, transparency, collaboration, and positive relationships. Our teams are fueled by performance and expertise, leading the charge in innovation, efficiency and delivering world-class customer service. Be part of the journey.

Introduction

Due to our continued success in winning new business and to grow our engineering team to meet the future demand for electricification of systems in aerospace and defence, we are looking for a Senior Electronics Engineer specialising in development of power electronics and related technologies.

This role is primarily responsible for assisting the design team in providing engineering solutions that exceed both internal and external customer standards in the design and development of bespoke electrical power and control systems. It involves provision of the design, documentation and technical reports required to fulfil the design objectives consistent with the requirements and standards as set out in the customer’s specification. The end-user platforms for these solutions reside in the aerospace, land and maritime sectors, and as such, reliability and product safety will play a prominent role.
Also, the role will periodically involve the provision of an initial technical assessment and the drafting of a technical response/proposal to all incoming bids (RFQs) in order to help the business win more development contracts.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical responsibility for development of allocated power conversion and power management products and technologies
• Review customer specifications to establish feasibility and possible conceptual solutions.
• Identification and development of new technologies to improve products
• Determine optimal power converter topologies and product overall electrical design, including product compliance with electrical requirements, including electrical environmental requirements such as EMI.
• Develop, review and approve the electrical sections of proposals, including time/cost estimation of tasks and hardware.
• Ownership of compliance matrix responses relating to electrical and electromagnetic compatibility in the final product
• Develop and maintain mathematical models and simulations of electrical power converters
• Write, review and approve simulation output reports and schematic drawings
• Create, review and approve electrical design schematics and PCB layout
• Prepare design reviews of electrical aspects of our products, including the creation of data packs/presentations
• Liaison with internal functions and suppliers in purchase of materials & components required on projects
• Technical ownership of product integrity and performance.
• Develop test plans and procedures for design assurance testing and qualification testing.
• Support electrical testing during development process
• Review and interpret test results.
• Investigations relating to power product failures.
• Involvement in safety analysis tasks such as FMEA and FMECA
• Continued personal, professional and technical development to maintain up-to-date knowledge in the domain
• Recording and analysis of product failures/faults
• Develop good working relationships with customers, supplier and academic partners
• Improve working practices and processes relevant to role
• Protect our product and company reputation by complying with all relevant regulations and standards

Core Requirements / Desireable Skills and Experience

• Relevant power converter and / or power management design experience
• Good knowledge of multiple topologies and understanding of selection criteria
• Requirements Analysis
• Schematic Capture Experience (Preferred; Altium)
• Production level mil or aerospace PCB design experience (Preferred; Altium)
• Development Testing Experience
• Awareness of industry appropriate design standards
• Clear and Concise Communicator of Technical Information

Advantageous Technical Experience:
• Qualification of aerospace Line Replaceable Units
• Worked on grant funding R&D projects
• Programming of FPGAs
• Familiarity with safety critical software development
• Experience of DO-254, DO-160, Mil-STD-810, Mil-HDBK-217
• Understanding of production processes used in power electronics

Behaviors
• Does the right thing, particularly with respect to safety and well-being
• Pro-active problem solver – see it, fix it
• Strive for technical excellence and quality
• Responsive technical leader, providing well thought out responses to engineering questions and requests
• Display the highest level of professional integrity and honesty as well as personal credibility.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Participative and collaborative working style
• Pragmatic and innovative, able to deal with conflicting demands for limited resources, removing obstacles that stand in their team’s way
• Dedicated and hard-working with the drive and resilience needed to overcome obstacles and succeed
• Excellent listening skills and the ability to consider the diverse views of others
• Thrives when working as part of a team

Required Qualifications and Experience:
• Minimum: Degree in Electrical and/or Electronic Engineering
• Significant, relevant industry experience
• Able to qualify for UK security clearance

Solving Technology Challenges for a Sustainable World

We want the very best people in our TT family across the globe – so we welcome applications from everyone, to celebrate a diverse mix of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and you can rest assured that TT Electronics takes positive steps to ensure we are an inclusive business, that will welcome and support you, from your initial application to wherever your career takes you! Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss any reasonable adjustments to your application, in order that we can accommodate and support you in the process. If you want to work for a company where who you are is valued and respected, we’d love to hear from you.

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