Electronics Design Engineer

PLC Renishaw plc

Location: Wotton-under-Edge
Work arrangement: On-site
Job type: Full-time
Pay: £50,000 – £50,000 / year
Posted Oct 29

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Job Description

Salary up to £50,000 Depending on experience

Location Wotton-under-Edge, Glos

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Renishaw's Manufacturing division for an experienced Electronics Design Engineer to join our Functional Test and Flying Probe team.

In this hands-on role, you will be responsible for designing and developing electronic hardware solutions that support manufacturing test, product diagnosis, and continuous improvement activities across Renishaw's electronics product portfolio. Working closely with Functional Test, Flying Probe, Product Development, and Manufacturing Engineering teams, you will develop bespoke PCBs, signal conditioning circuits, and test interface hardware to improve fault diagnosis, product quality, and manufacturing capability.

This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who enjoys a combination of electronic design, practical problem-solving, and component-level fault finding, while working on a broad range of advanced electronic products and technologies.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain analogue and digital electronic circuits to support manufacturing and test activities.
Design and develop bespoke PCBs, signal conditioning circuits, interface cards, and test hardware for use within manufacturing and engineering test solutions.
Provide expert electronics fault diagnosis and investigation down to component level across a wide range of products and technologies.
Support Functional Test and Flying Probe teams with complex fault investigation, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
Work closely with Product Development teams to improve product diagnosability, manufacturability, and testability.
Create and maintain design documentation, including schematics, PCB layouts, bills of materials, and technical reports.
Support New Product Introduction (NPI) activities through the development of hardware solutions required for validation, debugging, and manufacturing support.
Investigate recurring manufacturing issues and implement hardware-based improvements to increase product quality and production efficiency.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of manufacturing test capabilities through the introduction of new technologies, methodologies, and design approaches.

Key Requirements

Degree qualified in Electronic Engineering or a related discipline, or HNC/HND with significant relevant industrial experience.
Strong understanding of analogue and digital electronic circuit design.
Proven experience designing electronic hardware, including signal conditioning circuits, schematic capture, and PCB layout using CR-8000 or similar ECAD tools.
Strong electronics troubleshooting and fault-finding skills down to component level.
Ability to interpret complex schematics and investigate circuit behaviour using laboratory test equipment.
Experience supporting manufacturing, production engineering, test engineering, or product development activities.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a structured approach to fault investigation.
Ability to communicate technical information effectively within multidisciplinary teams.

Desirable Skills and Experience

Experience designing hardware for manufacturing test, automated test equipment (ATE), or product validation.
Knowledge of Functional Test, Flying Probe, In-Circuit Test (ICT), and Boundary Scan methodologies.
Experience developing mixed-signal electronics involving analogue, digital, and embedded technologies.
Familiarity with NI LabVIEW and TestStand environments.
Experience using Zuken CR-8000 for schematic capture and PCB design, or equivalent ECAD tools.
Practical experience using oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers, logic analysers, and other electronic test equipment.
Software development experience using Python, C#, C++, or similar languages.
Understanding of EMC, signal integrity, and robust electronic design practices.

Person Specification

A practical, hands-on engineer who enjoys solving challenging technical problems.
Strong attention to detail and a methodical approach to investigation and design.
An effective communicator capable of working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.
Comfortable balancing design activities with hands-on laboratory and manufacturing support.
Self-motivated and proactive, with a strong commitment to quality and continuous improvement.
Passionate about electronics and developing innovative solutions that deliver measurable business benefits.
Results-focused, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver to agreed timescales.

Benefits

When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, *subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. ( not available at all sites).

We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join Renishaw Health Trust (Aviva) and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.

Please click [here](https://www.renishaw.com/en/working-at-renishaw--6426) for further information about our benefits.

At Renishaw we believe that our success is powered by welcoming a workforce of diverse and talented people. Through encouraging an inclusive culture, where all our employees are free to be themselves, we can achieve our core values: Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity, and Involvement.

If you are excited about the role but feel as though you don’t meet all the requirements, we would encourage you still to apply. You might just be the right person for this role or another opportunity at Renishaw.

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, or require any reasonable adjustments please contact the recruitment team on 01453 490384 or recruitment@renishaw.com.

Please click [here](https://www.renishaw.com/en/diversity-and-inclusion--47237) for further information about diversity and inclusion at Renishaw.

Employment Type:

Permanent

Time Type:

Full time

Requisition Number:

R9754 Electronics Design Engineer (Open)

Renishaw is a FTSE 250 global engineering and scientific technology company, with core skills in measurement, motion control, additive manufacturing, healthcare, spectroscopy and manufacturing. We supply products and services that push the boundaries of what is possible in applications as diverse as jet engine and wind turbine manufacture, through to dentistry and brain surgery. We are also a world leader in the field of metal additive manufacturing (also referred to as 3D printing), where we design and make industrial machines that ‘print' parts from metal powder.

We currently have 77 offices in 36 countries, with around 5,200 employees worldwide. Over 3,000 people are employed within the UK where we carry out the majority of our research and development, and manufacturing.

With a global presence in a broad range of sectors, we aim to ensure that our workforce reflects the diverse global communities we serve. Every year we welcome a wide range of new employees, from apprentices to experienced professionals. By joining Renishaw you will be making a difference to the world in which we live, in a global company that encourages innovation and personal achievement.

Our people help us to pursue this purpose so that we can continue to be a world leader in precision technology and deliver on our vision to innovate and transform capabilities in manufacturing, science and healthcare through unparalleled levels of precision, productivity and practicality.

Pay

£50,000 – £50,000 / year

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