Hardware Development Engineer

Overview

The Hardware Development Engineer will report to the Head of Life Cycle Management and will work closely with Development, Manufacturing, Customer Service & Quality Teams. This will be a hands-on role, requiring hardware development experience and expected to be based onsite to efficiently support Manufacturing of Buhler products, while increasing the quality, repeatability, and efficiency within a safe working environment.

Responsibilities

• Working within the global R&D team, determining the most effective resource plan, escalating concerns where needed.
• Creating, defining & prioritising Hardware LCM requests into project tickets / plans.
• Collaborating with design engineering teams to assist in the development and introduction of new products, staying current with new software and technologies.
• Designing both analogue and digital electronic circuits for new products as well as for effective testing.
• Maintaining, designing and implementing test procedures for extensive system and sub-assemblies for production testing using custom test boxes, XJTAG and LabVIEW software.
• Supporting the product life cycle through to end-of-life, ensuring continuous improvement, maintaining obsolete components, product performance and customer satisfaction.
• Leading fault-finding and debugging electronic and electrical systems, including 8D investigations.
• Supporting compliance (e.g. NRTL, EMC and regulatory, etc.).
• Providing manufacturing files to PCB manufacturers and collaborating to resolve technical queries and requirements, associated to both existing and new designs.
• Visiting suppliers and other Buhler manufacturing sites to provide technical support / feedback on improving processes and equipment.
• Sharing knowledge & providing feedback to development team, on lessons learned and best practices.

Qualifications

• You will ideally have a bachelor's degree in electronics or related field.
• Hands-on experience on hardware development, obsolescence and product life cycle.
• Experience interpreting electrical and electronic schematics.
• Analog and digital electronics design experience.
• Experience fault-finding and debugging electronic systems and PCBs.
• Experience designing and developing test equipment for electronics.
• Comfortable utilising lab equipment (Bench PSU, oscilloscope, signal generators, etc).
• Experience creating test procedures and liaise with PCB Manufacturers.
• Familiar with LabVIEW Design for testing.
• Experience with design machine test procedures.
• Signal integrity knowledge.

Desirable qualifications

• Optical and Camera Systems Experience.
• JTAG Boundary Scan Testing.
• PCB Design Experience via Altium or Mentor Xpedition.
• FPGA and Embedded Design Experience.

Benefits

• Annual company bonus
• Life Insurance: 3x basic salary
• Canteen offering a variety of lunch options
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Bupa Health and Dental Cash Plan
• Employee perks and discounts (Telus)
• Give as you Earn
• Barnardo's Workplace Lottery
• Regular social, sports, leisure and wellbeing events in a diverse and inclusive workplace

Employer-funded pension plan

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Diverse and inclusive workplace

Diverse and inclusive workplace

We foster an inclusive culture that values our global diversity. Respect and empathy ensure that everyone feels safe and can perform at their best.

Cross-cultural working environment

The key to our success is our diverse workforce from at least 100 nationalities as well as our inclusive culture.

Two billion people eat food every day that was produced with Bühler equipment. One billion people drive vehicles whose parts were manufactured with our machines. Bühler aims to balance humanity, nature, and the economy in every decision as it develops solutions that unlock sustainable business opportunities in the global food, feed, and mobility industries. We strive to create innovations for a better world, with a special focus on healthy, safe, and sustainable solutions. Therefore, we team up with customers, start-ups, multinationals, and academia to accelerate impact together.