Senior Electronics Engineer - Development
Stockport - Hybrid
We are recruiting for a Senior Electronics Engineer to join us in our R&D function onsite in Stockport. Our brand new Stockport facility is the centre of excellence for our laser systems design and manufacturing.
This role is to be responsible for the design and development of electronics hardware, joining a team of electronics engineers within R&D. A fantastic opportunity to join our growing Stockport site and Novanta business.
What do we offer?
- A competitive base salary reviewed annually.
- Private Medical Insurance Scheme.
- Annual leave - 23 days + bank holidays, rising by one day each year of service up to 26 days.
- Death in service scheme.
- Enhanced company pension scheme.
- A friendly and sociable working environment - including regular business unit wide social clubs, activities and events.
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Volunteering Days.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Analyse basic product functional requirements, provided by the Project Managers/Customers and expand into detailed product requirement architecture definitions.
- Electronics design and development; simulation, schematic capture, PCB layout & BOM generation.
- Prototype functional testing and verification.
- Enhancement and support of existing products.
- Work closely with stakeholders and other Engineers.
- Liaise with customers and suppliers as required.
- Mentor/lead less experienced Engineers.
- Undertake work as per development processes, procedures and specifications.
- Compliance with company ISO membership requirements .
- Produce hardware technical documentation and document control of electronics drawings, BOMs.
- Design/Enhance/bug fix firmware (desirable)
- Produce firmware technical documentation and repository control (desirable).
Skills and Experience:
As an ideal candidate for the role of Senior Electronics Engineer (Development), you should have;
- A degree in Electronics Engineering or related discipline.
- Proven post graduate industrial experience in a related area.
- A good understanding of analogue, digital and embedded electronics (microcontroller-controlled systems).
- Proficiency in Schematic entry and PCB layout.
- Good hands-on electronics experience; soldering skills: use of regular electronics lab equipment, etc.
- Good organisational and analytical skills.
- Able to work on own initiative with minimal supervision
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Good team player with ability to work independently.
- Microsoft Office suite
- Experience of design for EMC and safety standards compliance.
- Integrated Development Environments as required for firmware development (desirable)
- Firmware and hardware Version Control Systems (VCS) (desirable).
- Experience of firmware development (desirable).
You don't meet every criteria on our list above? Not a problem! We welcome interest in our business and vacancies across all levels of experience and backgrounds. If you are keen to discuss more about this role or understand whether you could be a match then feel free to reach out to Rebecca Dunne for a confidential discussion.
As an inclusive employer, Novanta wants to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore encourage you to inform your Talent Acquisition Partner of any reasonable adjustments you might need to enable this to happen.
