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Electronics Engineer
Spirax-Sarco Ltd.
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Posted Oct 21
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Job Title: Electronics Engineer Location: WMFTS UK - UK - Cardrew Industrial Estate Location Type: On-Site Website: https://www.wmfts.com/en/ Group: https://www.spiraxgroup.com/ Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is part of Spirax Group, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies. When you join us, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our website to learn more. Key Responsibilities: • Using hardware design expertise and experience to deliver a wide range of electronic schematics and PCB designs to further and maintain our product range and projects. • Use simulation and CAE tools, backed by experience, to produce sound, robust and manufacturable products both for small- and large-scale manufacturing and can easily interface with Global partners and manufactures. • To investigate any functional, customer, supply and manufacturing issues and identify solutions working with software and project partners. • Mechanical interfacing of PCBs to enclosures and other mechanical parts through extensive use of CAD/CAE, working closely with the Mechanical Engineers and project partners. • Generation of required documentation for production and test. • To research new technologies and work with other across the Engineering team to implement • To manage projects or tasks within projects as required. • To ensure all electronics designs are rigorously tested and comply with all relevant standards, directives and regulations • To work to and proactively look to improve existing processes • To provide input and technical expertise to the development electronics strategies at WMFTS • To help create an agile, creative, pro-active, efficient and effective working environment. Other Accountabilities include • Absorb and collate differing amounts of product & customer information and turn it into a concise summary to allow requirements to be easily understood and conveyed. • Ensure the best practices are employed in any design study, project activity or sub-contract activity, including pro-active peer reviews of designs • Interpret product and market requirements and convey them into a design, construct a hardware requirements specification around which the design is constructed to ensure visibility of the design and to allow challenge, filter, ensure clarity and test theories. • Create and foster a culture of openness, technical excellence, continuous improvement and learning. • Working within an Agile environment; work with the software team to ensure that projects meet targets, using the visual management tools, review code/hardware integration and progress, actively working to understand the coding and testing approach and the interaction with the electronics hardware, inputting as appropriate to improve output. • Work with teams of all sizes to actively achieve a common goal, to pull together when challenges face the team and focus on solutions. • Maintain a positive attitude when facing challenges, focus on understanding the problem and providing a solution. • Investigate, using practical methods, to understand functional issues with products, both on new product development and when solving engineering issues with existing products. • Communicate concisely and convey technical information in a simple, professional format with a range of stakeholders, including with customers. • Be accountable for information and decisions, stay calm when challenged and push development boundaries. Skills/Experience: • Ideally you will have Honours Bachelor degree in an appropriate subject (BSc, BTech, BEng (Hons), MEng, MSc, PhD or equivalent in an Electronics/Engineering subject • Experience of electronics engineering working at or above graduate level. • Product concept, circuit definition, circuit design, PCB layout, verification/test, mechanical interfaces through to manufacturing and customer/sales interfacing. • Digital electronics: Embedded microprocessors, analogue to digital, digital to analogue interfacing, I2C, SPI, USB, LVDS etc and ancillary functions. • Analogue electronics: Real world signal interfacing and protection • Power electronics; use of 48V DC switching and linear power supply designs, power interfacing. • Design for manufacture, design for test, DFX and EMC compliance • Demonstrable schematic and PCB layout experience, including multi-layer as well as low cost, single- and double-sided low layer value/economical designs.SI and EMI compliance PCB best practice.Part generation and library management. • Mechanical interfacing of PCBs to enclosures and other mechanical parts through extensive use of 3D CAD (SolidWorks ) • Generation of required documentation and specification from power models to simulation, reliability calculation and reports • Understand thermal management and use of Simulation tools At Watson-Marlow, we believe in taking care of our colleagues. We offer a generous benefits package, including: • A competitive salary • Flexible working arrangements • A generous holiday allowance • Three days’ paid volunteering leave • Additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan Everyone is Included at Spirax Group We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique. We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working. We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include • Gender-neutral parental leave • 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave • Paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse • Menopause-friendly workplace principles and more Learn more at spiraxgroup.com/inclusion . We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. If you require accommodations during the application process, please let us know. Company Overview At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, part of Spirax Group, we are driven by innovation and are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is empowered to make a difference. As a world leader in manufacturing peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies for the life sciences and process industries, we offer a wide range of products, including tubing, specialised filling systems and products for single-use applications. Our shared Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 116 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones! Our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.