Electronics Engineer – Volume Products Group
Main purpose of the job
To work within multi-disciplinary teams on major development projects, contributing technically and using your existing expertise in innovative product design and development.
Type of work undertaken by the group
We combine highly creative lateral thinking with excellent technical skills, and a broad base of industry experience, to form a powerful development team. Our work includes undertaking complete product developments from concept to market, and consulting with our clients on their technology, strategy or development processes.
The Volume Products Group specialises in the design, development and transfer-to-manufacture of complex products serving a range of industry sectors including:
- High volume consumer products
- Cleantech
- Smart metering
- Mechatronics
- Healthcare products
- Industrial systems
The main areas of expertise within this multidisciplinary group are electromechanical systems design, design for manufacture, analogue & digital electronics, numerical analysis & mechanical engineering, motor & drive technologies, power electronics, industrial design and human factors, transfer-to-manufacture, manufacturer selection and support during new product introduction.
Specific responsibilities
This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer with the ambition and ability to achieve excellent results in a highly demanding industry and to find novel and radical solutions to new and existing problems under tough commercial and time restraints.
You will be using your strong technical skills to make a significant contribution to development projects, from initial concepts through to final delivery. This will include:
- Concept generation
- Analysis and development of system architectures
- Analogue, digital and power electronics design
- Working closely with other engineers and technicians to implement detailed design solutions
- Specifying, designing and executing experimental programmes with teams of scientists and technicians
- Proof-of-concept prototypes
- Writing technical reports and producing high quality design documentation
- Involvement in transfer to manufacture
Minimum requirements
To meet the demanding requirements of this role you will have:
- An excellent first degree in electronic engineering or a related discipline
- Some relevant post graduate industrial experience in electronics hardware design for manufacturing in volume
- Strong technical skills, with key strengths in digital and analogue electronics design
- A genuine passion for electronics, and engineering in general
- A creative approach to problem solving and concept generation
- An appreciation of the use of engineering analysis in product development
In addition, qualifications and experience in the following areas would be beneficial:
- Power electronics design
- Control engineering
- Audio engineering
- An ability to apply Matlab / Simulink as a design and simulation tool
- Micro controller systems design and embedded control systems
- Embedded software design & implementation
- A post-graduate qualification with a high level of practical experience
Future Prospects
Cambridge Consultants is committed to developing its employees’ careers and has a flexible policy for individual capabilities and preferences. Promotion is linked to merit.
Employment benefits
- Good salaries, based on merit and reviewed annually
- Profit share in addition to basic salary
- Flexible working hours
- Free lunches and refreshments
- Private medical insurance and company sickness scheme
- Pension scheme including free life assurance
- 25 days annual holiday plus bank holidays
- Assistance in relocation if applicable
- Active social committee
- Well equipped and pleasantly situated building on the Cambridge Science Park
- Above all, real responsibility for real business problems, with good career prospects based on merit
- Excellent career development and training opportunities
To apply, send your CV to: UKrecruitment@CambridgeConsultants.com