| Employment Type | Permanent |
|---|---|
| Location | Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire |
| Industry Sector | Defence |
| Start Date | ASAP |
| Salary/Rate | £28,000 |
| Reference | 57994 |
| Date Advertised | 19-06-2008 - 00:01 |
Senior Hardware Engineer - To support all design & project management activities for an area of this large Defence business or specific project subsystem (The role will provide opportunities for the candidate to develop into team leadership of multi-disciplinary teams (sometimes Multi-national), including manufacturing and test, delivering tasks and equipment to demanding project timescales.)
This role is commutable from Hatfield, Hitchin, Royston and Biggleswade.
Accountabilities
Design & develop specifications under guidance and carry out design activities in line with specifications and all quality and technical standards.Carry out standard technical investigations and analyses to provide data for problem assessment/resolution and for the design of improvements.Contribute to process improvement within the engineering/project team to deliver continuous improvements in quality, cycle time, asset utilisation, etc. Gather information on technical issues and report to more senior staff. Specify tests within a clearly defined area and evaluate and make recommendations based on results, including making suggestions to improve test/diagnosis processes. Carry out engineering support activities in the field for specific products and customers to ensure the operability of products. Assess implications of data analysis and formulate initial conclusions to more senior engineers to take necessary decisions on actions. Supply a technical interface with suppliers/customers at a detailed level, ensuring the effective provision of support to customers in assigned areas in line with customer requirements and programme plans, as well as the rapid resolution or escalation of problems and issues. Carry out or support investigations into engineering problems or issues (individually or as a member of a project team), present basic conclusions and recommendations to more senior staff and identify and highlight trends and emerging issues. Support the development of solutions
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Senior Hardware Engineer - To support all design & project management activities for an area of this large Defence business or specific project subsystem (The role will provide opportunities for the candidate to develop into team leadership of multi-disciplinary teams (sometimes Multi-national), including manufacturing and test, delivering tasks and equipment to demanding project timescales.)
This role is commutable from Hatfield, Hitchin, Royston and Biggleswade.
Accountabilities
Design & develop specifications under guidance and carry out design activities in line with specifications and all quality and technical standards.Carry out standard technical investigations and analyses to provide data for problem assessment/resolution and for the design of improvements.Contribute to process improvement within the engineering/project team to deliver continuous improvements in quality, cycle time, asset utilisation, etc. Gather information on technical issues and report to more senior staff. Specify tests within a clearly defined area and evaluate and make recommendations based on results, including making suggestions to improve test/diagnosis processes. Carry out engineering support activities in the field for specific products and customers to ensure the operability of products. Assess implications of data analysis and formulate initial conclusions to more senior engineers to take necessary decisions on actions. Supply a technical interface with suppliers/customers at a detailed level, ensuring the effective provision of support to customers in assigned areas in line with customer requirements and programme plans, as well as the rapid resolution or escalation of problems and issues. Carry out or support investigations into engineering problems or issues (individually or as a member of a project team), present basic conclusions and recommendations to more senior staff and identify and highlight trends and emerging issues. Support the development of solutions to technical issues and process improvement opportunities as a member of a project team. Plan, deliver and monitor assigned tasks, ensuring requirements are delivered to plan. Provide technical support to operational activities to optimise effective processes, resolving standard problems to minimise interruptions to production.Keep up to date in relevant technical areas and develop skills and capabilities to be able to provide more effective services, seeking and sharing good practice and knowledge locally to continuously improve own practices.
Technical skills in one or more of the following areas are required:- Design of Xilinx FPGA devices (including SoC configurations), in particular Virtex 2 pro, 4 and 5. Design of Digital Electronics including Microprocessor (e.g Power PC). Design of Analogue Electronics (up to and including RF).Design of Power Electronics (e.g. Actuator drive circuitry). Derivation of sub-system architectures from system requirement inputs. PCB Packaging and layout of complex PCBs Competence in one or more of the following:- The use of CAE Design tools (Xilinx EDK, Mentor Graphics HDL Designer, Leonardo Spectrum, Precision Synthesis, ModelSim, Board Architect, Board Station RE). Negotiation of subsystem requirements with the systems teams. Writing Subsystem Requirement and associated documents. Ability to provide succinct and accurate reports and presentationsThe following personal attributes:- Ability to motivate self to achieve demanding technical and project deliverables.Ability to interface and influence at different levels of the organisation. Ability to organise and plan own tasks to meet higher level demands.
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