Electronics Engineer

Job Title: Electronics Engineer

Location: Long Eaton, Nottinghamshire

Salary: £30,000 – £40,000 per annum

Job type: Full Time (37 hours per week), Permanent

TecQuipment is the leading provider of high-quality educational equipment for engineering disciplines. The company’s laboratory products are used by students and educators across the world, in over 1500 establishments in more than 100 countries.

Be part of a rapidly growing, world-leading company that is now an employee-owned business where we all share in the responsibilities and successes

Job Overview

This is a tremendous opportunity for an energetic and enthusiastic electronics engineer to play a critically important role as we continue to drive growth with an exciting range of world-leading products. Part of a small but highly skilled design team you will have high levels of responsibility and visibility and be able to make a real difference to the products and performance of the business, developing in your career whilst being able to really see the impact of your efforts.

The work is varied, interesting and demanding as we expect high standards for quality and performance. With good theoretical and practical technical knowledge, you will be responsible for designing and supporting the manufacture of electronics that are integral to the function and performance of our products. Main responsibilities will include:

• Designing and developing solutions to support data acquisition and control of new educational products including: printed circuit board design, development and validation; firmware development and validation; integration with controllers, instrumentation, drives, etc
• Providing technical support for on-site manufacturing and test to quickly resolve issues and keep production on track to meet customer delivery dates

Responsibilities

1. New Product Development
   1. Develop solutions to support data acquisition and control of new educational products including:
      1. printed circuit board design, development and validation
      2. firmware development and validation

• integration with controllers, instrumentation, drives, etc

1. Create new concepts/approaches that deliver improved quality, capability and/or reduced cost

2. Current Product Support
   1. Find effective solutions to deal with issues associated with obsolete components to ensure products remain viable and lead times maintained
   2. Support Customer Services in the resolution of any customer issues
3. Compliance
   1. Complete activities in compliance with appropriate Standards and ensure electronic systems comply with electrical safety, EMC and RoHS regulations
4. Production Support
   1. Providing support to resolve issues associated with electronic systems found during production and end-of-line testing

About You:

Essential

• Degree in Electronics or Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• 2+ Years commercial electronic design experience, Analogue and Digital Including:
  • Interfacing to instrumentation and transducer signal processing
  • Interfacing to microcontrollers
  • Signal conditioning (filtering, amplification, attenuation etc.)
• Schematic Capture and PCB Design
• Understanding PCB assembly and manufacturing processes
• Ability to build and test prototypes
• Full product design lifecycle
• Experience with PIC microcontrollers
• Knowledge and experience of C & C# programming
• Produce and maintain technical documentation, updates to drawings, bill of materials, manufacturing drawings, PCB manufacturing files etc.

Desirable

• Knowledge of IPC-A-610 / IPC Standards
• Knowledge of design for EMC
• Familiarity with Low Voltage and EMC directives (CE Marking)
• Use of MRP/ERP systems to control bill of materials
• Use of EDA software – Pulsonix (preferred) and Boardmaker

Benefits

• Pension
• Life Assurance
• 26 days holiday
• Pleasant working environment with free parking

Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.

Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Electronics Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Electronic Design Engineer will also be considered for this role.