Senior Electrical and Electronic Design Engineer

 

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Job Description Senior Electrical and Electronic Design Engineer

Reports to: Engineering Manager

Responsible for: Conceptual design and flow-down of work packages and successful product realisation. Providing technical support & training to less senior EE engineers.

Main Tasks:

• Generate electrical / electronic design specifications for team members

• Prepare cost estimates for quotes

• Acting in the capacity of a lead technical engineer on projects (reporting to PM), this will include generating electrical / electronic design specifications for team members

• Providing accurate work status information to project manager

• Communicate with customers and other Amfax project engineers to clarify requirements / meet design specifications

• Identify and support timely development of ‘fit for purpose’ electrical drawings & electronic documentation

• Research & source specific items when required

• Provide technical guidance to colleague and customers when required

• Design PCBs when necessary

• Sign off the manufacturing drawing pack (readiness to build)

• Work closely with manufacturing dept. to inform and answer queries during assembly / test stages

• Efficiently and accurately check wiring schedule & schematic information produced by colleagues

• General management & upkeep of drawings

• Attend Factory and/or Site Acceptance Testing with customer when required

• Running and supervising testing

• Generate product reference documentation / handbooks when required

• Keep up to date on industry / external design standards

Attributes:

• Accurate and methodical

• Able to anticipate & solve problems

• Able to produce wiring schedules & schematics that support efficient manufacture

• Able to work on a variety of projects

• Good communication skills to Amfax and customer personnel

Essential Qualifications / Experience:

• Formal engineering qualification in electronic / electrical design

• Min. 5 years industry related experience in electrical engineering at design / implementation level

• Possess all requirements for successfully meeting formal Security Check (SC) criteria

• Experience of designing test equipment

• Experience of designing analogue and digital interface circuits

Desirable Qualifications / Experience:

• 18th Edition an advantage

• Experience in Power Engineering an advantage

• Experience with National Instruments hardware/software an advantage

 

 

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Skills:

6 Expert

5 Role Model

4 Consistently Capable

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3 Capable

2 Basic Ability

1 In Development

0 Undemonstrated

N/A Not Applicable

Skills Competency Requirement what is expected

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Technical Quotes Understands how to produce logical and realistic estimates, forming part of a quote/proposal

5 Requirements: Design

Design to meet project requirements and budgets This includes: - Tracing design back to the project's requirements - Creating Design Documentation suitable for release to customer

5 Requirements: Test

Test to prove design meets project requirements This includes: - Able to trace test back to the projects requirements - Develop tests that prove design - Run tests and record results suitable for releasing to customer

4 Requirements: Scope Creep Recognises 'scope creep', Captures & controls necessary adjustments through required change management processes

4 Organisation & Planning: Priority Tasks Understands and recognises priority tasks

4 Organisation & Planning: Work Planning

Effective planning of work towards achieving project goals

4 Delegation Identifying and creating work packages to delegate to less senior engineers as appropriate

5 Communication Effective communication within project teams, wider company and customers

4 Product Knowledge Able to draw on knowledge and experience of designing with COTs and prior Amfax products

5 System Integration, Commissioning & Installation

Knowledge and experience of system integration, commissioning & installation

4 Test system architecture Produce the architecture for entire test system (initial concept and system design)

4 External (customer and industry) Standards

Working knowledge of applicable current external standards, able to retrieve required information

4 MS Office

Effective use of Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Visio for project and work documents. Able to produce and amend document compliant with company format & QMS doc controls.

 

 

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4 Quality Management System

Effective use of the Amfax Quality Management System This includes - Navigating the QMS - Understanding and following the QMS processes - Understanding and following the QMS Guidelines and Work Instructions - Making effective use of the Forms

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Wiring schedule producer Produce wiring schedules that are accurate, fit for purpose and support efficient manufacture using Microsoft Excel

5 Schematic producer (electrical) Produce electrical schematics that are accurate, fit for purpose and support efficient manufacture using ISIS (Proteus)/Easy PC/Visio/AutoCAD

5 Schematic checker (electrical) Accurately check electrical schematics, consistently identifying & communicating all errors found - ensuring all corrections are made before approved for release

4 High power/voltage/current Knowledge and practical experience of high power / voltage / current and relevant Health & Safety regulatory requirements

5 Instrumentation selector Identify most suitable instrumentation within project requirements (functionality, lead time and price)

5 Electrical components selector (parts list generator)

Commercial awareness of component selection (correct for the project requirements, timescales and budgets). Able to produce a Bill of Materials (BOM) using Microsoft Excel

4 EMC Knowledge and practical experience of EMC (performance implications, precautions and testing requirements)

4 IEE Wiring Regulations (18th Edition)

Understand and ensure conformance to latest IEE wiring regulations

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Analog circuit design Knowledge and practical experience of analogue circuit design

4 Digital circuit design Knowledge and practical experience of digital circuit design

4 Schematics producer (electronic) Produce electronic schematics that are accurate, fit for purpose and support efficient manufacture using ISIS (Proteus)/Easy PC

4 Electronic components selector (parts list generator)

Commercial awareness of component selection (correct for the project requirements, timescales and budgets). Able to produce a Bill of Materials (BOM) using Microsoft Excel

4 Performs analogue/digital test (functional & performance)

Knowledge and practical experience of identifying fit for purpose analogue/digital tests, accurately interpreting results

4 Instrumentation user (lab) Knowledge and practical experience of lab instrumentation (particularly scope, DMM & spectrum analyser)

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Test system architecture Produce the architecture for entire test system (initial concept and system design)

4 Electrical circuit design - overall system

Produce electrical circuit design for entire test system (initial concept and manufacture-ready drawings)

4 Electrical circuit design - sub assembly

Produce electrical circuit design for sub-assembly, based on information provided from overall design (initial concept and manufacture-ready drawings)

4 Specify & conduct instrumentation test (FAT author)

Knowledge and practical experience of instrumentation capability and identifying fit for purpose tests

4 FAT/SAT conductor (electrical) Conduct effective and comprehensive FAT and SAT in an electrical capacity, accurately interpreting results