Job title: Principal Design Engineer

Location: North Wales

Salary: £50-55k

The company

My client is a high growth global technology driven business located in North Wales. As a customer focused organisation, they specialise in the design and manufacture of advanced technology solutions for multiple industry sectors including SCADA for the electricity supply industry, Integrated Security and Mobilising Command & Control systems.

Overview of the role

• As Principal Design Engineer, you will be an integral part of their outstanding engineering team, utilising a wide range of exciting technologies, where you will be responsible for developing new products, systems and features.
• Working alongside highly talented and experienced colleagues, with many years’ experience in product development and be involved in the full lifecycle, from feasibility to release to production and on-going support.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Leading production of innovative designs that fulfil challenging user & performance requirements
• Liaising with senior stakeholders to ensure designs meet with relevant requirements
• Using experience & technical best practice to overcome problems and product challenge.
• Ensuring all designs comply with the appropriate international standards
• Working closely with purchasing &production to ensure good design principles are adopted to mitigate supply chain dependencies.
• Supporting third parties involved in the design, prototype and production
• Ensuring designs are fully tested and documented to company design processes
• Providing detailed work breakdown for team tasks
• Working with the Company’s adaptive development methodology to deliver systems that exceed customer expectations and achieve the highest quality
• Timely identification & communication of technical issues & risks

Experience:

• Degree / PhD (or HND/HNC with relevant experience) in Electrical/Electronic Engineering
• Design of Power Electronics Systems
• Circuit Modelling and Simulation, SPICE, WEBENCH etc.
• High-speed digital, analogue, optical electronics design
• Advanced knowledge of electronics design for embedded systems, microcontrollers & SoC application processors and DSPs
• Design of high accuracy AC/DC measurement systems
• 5+ years CADStar PCB design highly preferable (other CAD packages considered)
• Ethernet Networked product design
• EMC testing and approvals
• FPGA, CPLD, VHDL/Verilog
• Reliability prediction MTBF

To discuss further, please contact Oli at oli@oakmontconsulting.co.uk