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- £60,000 - £65,000 + Bonus, Pension, Healthcare
Company
With nearly 50 years of experience behind them, this is a global company that continues to grow, having doubled in size over the last five years. They consider themselves to be agile and highly innovative, embracing the technology associated within the industry. The business has a strong family culture which provides a positive working environment where employees feel valued and trusted. They are big advocates of personal development, growth and progression, with many success stories of this across the company.
Salary, Hours and Benefits
- £60,000 - £65,000
- Hybrid
- 37.5 hours per week, with some flexibility
- The chance to join a hypergrowth business
- Up to 10.5% company pension
- Company bonus
- 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- Cash health plan
- A modern, forward-thinking place to work
Commutable From: Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Walsall, Dudley, Kidderminster
Role Overview
The business is looking to recruit a Senior Electronics Engineer to support the continuing growth of their design department. The role will involve providing technical guidance to other members of the Electronics Design team, working alongside other engineering disciplines, designing hardware and embedded software to extend the businesses product range.
Candidate Requirements
- The Senior Electronics Engineer will hold a degree or similar qualification in Electronics Engineering or a comparable subject.
- Proven experience in embedded firmware design, development, and testing, along with, firmware unit, integration, and system testing.
- Solid experience in electronics hardware design, development, and testing; including PCB schematic design and layout.
- The Senior Electronics Engineer will have EMC design and test experience.
- New product development, and design validation process – FMEA, DFM.
- Creation of supporting design documentation, development reports, BoM, build packs.
- Experience of electronics design within a highly regulated industry, with experience of working with third party approval/certification bodies.
- Experience in architecture design and architecture design tools, with a familiarity of machinery safety standards or similar.
Key Responsibilities
- The Senior Electronics Engineer will be a lead electronics resource for the business.
- Identify areas of improvement and assist implementing new processes.
- Design and maintenance of hardware and embedded software for use within company products.
- Assessment and documentation of products against specifications and standards.
- Coordinate with and assist other departments.
- £55,000 + Pension, Bonus, Healthcare
The Company
For over 60 years, this business has been constantly evolving their product portfolio to meet the demands and ever-changing needs for some of the world’s largest industries. From the design of their first ever product, the business has sustained manufacturing excellence, setting the industry standard.
Today they operate from a purpose built, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Northampton, where they routinely design and develop system solutions for bespoke applications.
Due to an increasing volume of sales they now need to expand and strengthen their Engineering department.
Control & Instrumentation Hardware Engineer Package, Benefits and Hours
- Salary up to £55,000
- 37 hours per week; Monday to Thursday 8:30am – 17:15pm, Fridays 8:30am – 12:30pm
- 25 days holiday, plus statutory
- 10% employer pension, 4% from employee
- Excellent contractual benefits package to include: death in service, income protection benefits and health insurance, together with a non-contractual annual profit share bonus
Commutable From: Northampton, Long Buckby, Leicester, Coventry, Milton Keynes, Rugby, Banbury
Role Overview
The control & instrumental hardware engineer will design, development, and commissioning of control systems, including variable speed motors and drives, PLC based test systems, P&ID diagrams.
You should be experienced in in electrical CAD design and creating high quality project documentation to deliver exceptional solutions for customers.
This role will see you assist with commissioning of systems both in-house and at customer sites within UK and internationally.
Control & Instrumentation Hardware Engineer Key Requirements
- Degree / NVQ level 5 or equivalent engineering qualification.
- 2 years designing (electrical CAD) & developing C&I systems.
- PLC Programming (Siemens Step 7 / TIA Portal / Controllogix / Beckhoff PLC / Codesys desirable)
- Knowledge of industrial communication protocols (e.g. ProfiNET, CAN)
- Industrial wiring and switchgear, Industrial sensors e.g. encoders, transducers for pressure, flow, temperature etc.
- Understanding of UK electrical legislation UKCA, CE, UL, CSA
- Safety standards ISO 13849, IEC 61508
If you are interested in this Control & Instrumental Hardware Engineer role, please apply today for more information and be sure to leave your contact details.
- £40,000 - £45,000 + Pension, Bonus, Healthcare
The Company
For over 60 years, this business has been constantly evolving their product portfolio to meet the demands and ever-changing needs for some of the world’s largest industries. From the design of their first ever product, the business has sustained manufacturing excellence, setting the industry standard.
Today they operate from a purpose built, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Northampton, where they routinely design and develop system solutions for bespoke applications.
Due to an increasing volume of sales they now need to expand and strengthen their Engineering department.
Applications and Development Engineer Package, Benefits and Hours
- Salary £40,000 - £45,000
- 37 hours per week; Monday to Thursday 8:30am – 17:15pm, Fridays 8:30am – 12:30pm
- 25 days holiday, plus statutory
- 10% employer pension, 4% from employee
- Excellent contractual benefits package to include: death in service, income protection benefits and health insurance, together with a non-contractual annual profit share bonus
Commutable From: Northampton, Long Buckby, Leicester, Coventry, Milton Keynes, Rugby, Banbury
Role Overview
The Applications and Development Engineer will assist Business Development to provide technical solutions to customer enquiries and study, research and develop ideas for new products and methods used to make them.
You will be working on a wide range of high-speed rotating machinery, couplings and test rigs of bespoke design that must be functional, reliable, easy and safe to use, including modifying existing products or processes to increase efficiency or improve performance.
Applications and Development Engineer Candidate Key Requirements
- Experience or knowledge of high-speed rotating machinery / rotordynamics or similar.
- Mechanical Engineering Degree with Aerospace/Automotive/Energy/Oil & Gas background together with 3 to 5 years of demonstrable experience in a similar role.
- Working knowledge and experience of CAD & PDM (preferably SolidWorks) and FEA tools (preferably ANSYS Workbench and/or SolidWorks Simulation).
- Ability to create and interpret engineering drawings with GD&T.
- Abley to perform hand calculations for preliminary design, sizing, and stress assessment of static and rotating components.
- Material selection ability and knowledge of conventional manufacturing processes.
- Good understanding of Applied Mechanics, Strength of Materials, Metal Fatigue, Rotordynamics, and Vibrations along with a basic understanding of heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics.
Key Responsibilities (but not limited to)
- The Applications and Development Engineer will support the Chief Engineer in providing timely response to new application and product enquiries for driveline components (couplings, torquemeters, spindles etc.) and turnkey test rigs for testing high-speed rotating machines such as e-motors, generators, aero engines, gearboxes, turbines, compressors, pumps, turbochargers etc.
- Produce innovative designs/ideas and create workable and cost-effective solutions.
- Assist in product costing and preparation of technical and commercial proposals.
- Assist in new product development and product improvement activities including brainstorming, design, analysis, supplier selection and testing, creating 3D CAD conceptual designs and 2D drawings.
- Collaborate with manufacturing, assembly and testing to build in-house R&D test rigs for new product development.
- The ability to conduct test schedules, document the results and present these findings clearly.