Electronics Design Engineer

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Job Title: Electronics Design Engineer
Location: Lancashire
Salary: £50,000 - £70,000 per annum
Great Benefits Package – See Below
Relocation Assistance Provided
 
Company Overview & Job Title:
An established and tremendously successful engineering company based in Lancashire who are market leaders in the design and development of industry leading products for the safety and detection industries is now seeking to hire a brand-new Electronics Design Engineer to join the successful and growing business who have an excellent start of the art purpose-built facility in Lancashire.
 
Salary:
The salary on offer for the successful Electronics Design Engineer is £50,000 – £70,000 per annum, depending on skillset & experience. Relocation assistance of up to £5000 is provided.
 
The role:
The Electronics Design Engineer will join a talented and innovative multi disciplined engineering team of 24 engineers consisting of Electronics, Firmware, applications & IOT development, mechanical design, compliance, verification, project management and administration. The Electronics Design Engineer will be hands on working across the full product design lifecycle for present, new and future development and sustaining of a product line.
 
Key Skills:

5-10+ years industry experience
Full design cycle experience – concept to manufacture/new product introduction
Have an understanding of electronics fundamentals and basic theory
Electronics Circuit Design (analogue & digital)
PCB Design & Schematic Capture
Experience using CADSTAR, Altium Designer, OrCAD, Proteus, or similar is useful
Network interfaces - SPI, I2C, USB, UART, RS232/485, ADC, DAC etc
Circuit Simulation – LTSpice or similar
Practical skills - Prototyping, fault find, bench testing
Familiar with DFM, DFT, EMC, LVD, HMI and a wide range of other standards and design considerations
Ability to work well in a multi-disciplined engineering team
Good teamwork and communications skills 
Desirable skills and experience:

Firmware Development for Embedded C
Power Electronics – SMPS, Power amps, Power Management, Batteries, Power Converters
Audio design experience
Automatic Test Equipment (ATE), LabVIEW
Appreciation of mechanical design
Project management, mentoring and leadership skills
Experience in regulated or safety critical industriesBenefits Package:

34 days annual leave including bank holidays
Private health insurance + death-in-service benefit
Healthcare cash plan
Enhanced pension contribution
Discretionary early Friday finish
Real technical ownership and variety in your role
Career progression in a growing, engineering-led company 
If the above Electronics Design Engineering exciting new opportunity is of interest to for you or anyone else you may know to join a fantastically well-run successful business, then please apply now with your updated CV or call Frank Kanjanda at Premier Group at (phone number removed) and (url removed) for further information about the role and company

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