Senior Electrical & Electronics Engineer

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Senior Electrical & Electronics Engineer

Location: Aberdeen
Sector: Aerospace & Defence
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: Competitive Salary
Reference: SK/R/088631

Role

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. Read below and decide if you will take it!

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
• 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.
• 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.
• Visit other sites and client assets as required.
• Provide 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

Company information

At First Recruitment Group, we understand just how important it is to secure the right people. That is why our Recruitment Consultants always take the time to understand requirements in detail and offer sound advice to both clients and candidates.

We actively recruit at all levels and this is a superb opportunity for Senior Electrical & Electronics Engineers looking for new employment.

As part of putting people first, we strive to be an equal opportunities employer and we are always looking to increase the diversity of our workforce, working closely with our clients to ensure everyone is included.