Description
Hardware Design Engineer Automation Products PCB
Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services requires Hardware Design Engineers in their client's office in Worthing, UK. You may work remotely until covid abates.
This is a 5-7-month temporary contract to start on 15th Dec 2021.
Job Purpose
To undertake the detailed design of Hardware solutions for customer's automation products - from concept through to Production.
Key Responsibilities
- Designing and overseeing the production of robust and reliable hardware equipment (PCBs)
- Designing and testing circuits, managing component issues.
- Evaluating the effectiveness of designs and managing change where necessary
- Estimating cost, reliability, and other risk factors
- Analysing information and recommending appropriate hardware solutions
- Interacting with Manufacturing for production related processes
- Producing documentation in line with company quality procedures.
Key Requirements
- More than 5 years demonstrable experience of producing high quality Embedded hardware designs for industrial applications.
- More than 5 years' experience of working within an ISO9001 qualified process, producing high quality design and test documentation.
- Good understanding of analog and digital electronic design fundamentals, within an industrial environment.
- Familiarity with 32bit microcontrollers, especially ARM M-class and A-class based SOCs
- Knowledge of FPGA based design (Xilinx or equivalent) will be a big plus.
- Familiarity with designing robust products for difficult EMC environments.
- Designing with Ethernet, CANFD, Profibus or other communications protocols
- Good understanding of industry standard component management, schematic design, and simulation tools.
- Good understanding of Microsoft Office applications including Word, Powerpoint and Excel is essential.
- Designing with programmable logic and using hardware description languages, especially for Xilinx platforms is desirable
- Designing with Ethernet, CANFD, Profibus or other communications protocols is desirable.
Personal Qualities
The applicant should be able to demonstrate:
- The ability to work as part of a team, but also as an individual contributor, perhaps as part of a geographically dispersed group.
- The ability to work with multiple disciplines and across departments, in a diverse and multi-cultural environment.
- The ability to accurately generate time scale estimates.
- A problem-solving mentality
- The ability and desire to learn and expand knowledge continuously
- Self-motivation and enthusiasm
- Good communication skills
- A strong customer focus
- A drive for improving product quality
- Creative and innovative thinking