Description
Role and activities
- Provision of technical leadership to the hardware development team on one or more projects;
- Responsible for ensuring the technical integrity of the project through requirements management, design analysis, trade studies and ensuring the development activities are aligned with best practice and internal processes;
- Communicate significant issues in a timely and appropriate manner;
- Provide technical advice to internal and external customers;
- Coach and mentor junior engineers;
- Support products through qualification and into production;
- Review and generate technical documentation consistent with engineering policies and procedures;
- Participate as a presenter or reviewer in technical and program reviews;
- Manage the burn-down of technical risk;
- Prepare patents on new technologies and ensure diligent reconciliation of architecture and technology with existing intellectual property.
Qualifications and experience
- Minimum of 2.2 Bachelors degree in Electronic Engineering or a related subject or equivalent level of experience;
- Demonstrable experience within an engineering leadership position;
- A background in electronics design;
- Technological proficiency, including the use of relevant engineering tools such as DOORS, MATHCAD, Visio, Dimensions);
- Able to clearly formulate and communicate complex and abstract design concepts;
- A self-starter, committed to deliver products on schedule under pressure;
- Able to work effectively in a team environment;
- Experience across the product life cycle, including project planning, derivation of hardware requirements from product-level requirements, verification and validation;
- The confidence, flexibility and risk management skills to develop new approaches and solutions.
- Used to working within a recognised quality system;
- Willing to travel internationally occasionally.
Desired characteristics
- Experience of aircraft certification requirements for complex hardware (DO-254);
- Experience of environmental testing of products to DO-160;
- Experience of aircraft interfacing;
- Technical proposal writing skills;
- Thorough appreciation of safety and reliability concepts;
- Understanding of design for manufacturing.