Senior Electrical & Electronics Engineer

Location: Aberdeen Sector: Aerospace & Defence Job Type: Permanent Salary: Competitive Salary

Senior Electrical / Electronics Engineer
Full-time, Permanent
Westhill - Aberdeenshire

Are you a Senior Electrical / Electronics Engineer looking for a new opportunity? The opportunity to work with a leading Defence company awaits you.

Responsibilities of a Senior Electrical / Electronics Engineer:

• Through life engineering support
• Technical lead for electrical, electronics, and software engineering team

Workload of a Senior Electrical / Electronics Engineer:

• New product design to meet client or internal specifications
• Support existing client's request to upgrade or change equipment in the field
• You will also act as a leader and manager to ensure the team is delivering to their highest potential.

Your key accountabilities within this role of Senior Electrical & Electronics Engineer:

• Provide design input to new products
• Provide engineering support to existing product ranges
• Assessing technical queries and providing solutions
• Liaising with internal departments such as procurement, sales and production to ensure the best technical solutions.
• Source materials and components
• Create specifications, proposals
• Assembly instructions, test procedures
• Certifications and reports.
• You will check detailed manufacturing drawings and be responsible as the technical approver of drawings and documentation generated within the electrical, electronic and embedded software products team.
• There will also be some requirement to visit other sites and client assets.
• You will provide fulfil management activities such as ensuring high performance, staff development and allocation of work.

Qualifications and Experience Needed for a Senior Electrical / Electronics Engineer:

• Electrical/electronic engineering degree or equivalent industry experience
• Extensive experience of circuit design, PCB layout and embedded software (MPLAB, ST32)
• Good knowledge of electrical systems and designing for EMC compliance
• Good knowledge of PCB design software such as Altium Designer (schematic capture & layout)
• Good knowledge of electrical design software such as AutoCAD Electrical
• Skilled in generating design calculations
• Knowledge of design standards
• Knowledge of industry guidelines such as IMCA
• Previous product design experience would be advantageous
• Experience with PLM system for generating and storage of engineering packages
• Previous diving equipment design experience would be advantageous
• Any relevant diving qualifications would be advantageous

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates.