Nicholas Howard Recruitment are delighted to to be recruiting for a Lead Electronics Engineer.

6 month initial contract with potential for extension, inside IR35

Reporting to the Design Team Lead the role will:

• Take responsibility for the design, development and support of mixed electrical / electronic solutions from concept to completion following a detailed phase-gate development process.
• Facilitate the development of functional and physical design requirements to ensure complete integrated design architecture.
• Produce technical documentation to support all activities, from trade studies, requirements documentation, compliance evidence and test documentation.
• Design and development of electrical/electronic sub-assemblies for low and high power DC systems.
• Analyze,-test and evaluation of electrical circuits, components and protection of harnesses.

Required Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Formal Electrical qualification such as HNC/HND/BEng.
• Experience of Electrical Hardware Design & Electrical Product Development for Harsh Environments.
• Electrical analysis of circuit protection, component derating and electrical stress.
• EMC and Environmental Awareness at system and circuit level.
• Awareness of Def-Stan/Mil Standards, Safety and Quality processes.
• Ability to support and manage aspects of Assembly, Integration and Test.
• Experience of working with lab test equipment, e.g. debug of Electrical circuits using DMM, Oscilloscope, Power supplies, Logic and Protocol Analysers .
• Experience of Windchill or other Product Lifecycle Management tool.
• Experience of Altium, Zuken E.3, SIMetrix and LTSpice would advantageous.