My Client is a market leading environmental sensor design & manufacturing company working in a variety of industry sectors, including Naval Defence, Maritime & Marine Science & Technology. We are recruiting for an experienced Principal Electronics Engineer responsible for design and development of electronics for instrumentation and acoustics applications.

Team Leadership

• Provide support to the Director of Engineering to co-ordinate Electronics Engineering projects and tasks.

• Provide guidance to staff to ensure the engineering team completes project assignments on time and within budgets.

• Mentoring and developing Engineering team.

• Participating in risk assessments and mitigating activities.

• Providing design reviews and giving technical recommendations.

• Participating in technical audits and ensuring recommendations are implemented.

• Developing and providing technical standards and guidance in all software design and development.

• Provide technical support to Sales and Manufacturing departments.

Skills (essential)

• Expertise in analogue and digital circuit design preferably in an instrumentation development environment.

• The work will involve mixed signal design including pre-amplifiers, filters, power supplies, interfacing, and analogue-digital conversion for precision instrumentation applications.

• Some experience or knowledge of microcontroller-based circuit design and embedded software essential.

• Some experience or knowledge of FPGA based circuit design is desirable.

• The candidate will be expected to work independently or as a member of a team contributing to all aspects of the product development cycle from requirement analysis through design & development into production.

• Candidate would be expected to produce design documentation and test specifications.

• IPC trained (training can be provided).

• OrCAD design software or experience with similar tools.

Skills (desired)

Knowledge of:

• Basic Analog components / circuits

• Operational Amplifier circuits

• Power supply technology

• Circuit analysis, modelling, and theory

• Analog-Digital Conversion

• Interfacing and IO (e.g. I2C and SPI bus)

• CAD Schematic layout

• CAD PCB design

• Fault finding

• Assembler and/or embedded C

• Use of PAL/FPGA technologies.

• Linux and other OS

Personal Characteristics

• Highly self-motivated with energy, pace, and enthusiasm.

• Ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplined team.

• Attention to detail and time management skills.

• Good written and presentational communication skills will be required.

• Excellent communication at all levels within and outside the Company

Other Requirements

• Due to the nature of the role, there will be an occasional need for working outside normal working hours.

• There will be a need to travel to customer sites on an occasional basis.

• Candidate would be expected to provide occasional off-shore support as required including some overseas travel.

Qualifications
BSc/BEng or equivalent in Engineering or similar discipline (2:1 or higher).

Security Clearance
The role requires a UK passport holder (not dual nationality) and capable of gaining National Security Vetting SC clearance. 5 years residency in UK is required.