Job Title:         In- Service Electronics Engineer

Salary:             up to £55,500 per annum dependent upon experience

Location:         Portsmouth

We currently have a vacancy to join one of the world’s leading, global defence, security and aerospace companies as an In- Service Electronics Engineer. The role will be based in Portsmouth but offers the opportunity for hybrid working and flexible working hours. You will need to be on site 3 days per week.

They work at the cutting edge of technology, creating more than 100 new inventions every year for customers in over 100 countries.

You will be joining the Underwater Weapons team and will be responsible for the electronic aspects of torpedo design, repair, and maintenance. The role will provide you with the opportunity to work on various complex development projects. You will see various stages of the lifecycle and contribute through these phases.

Main Responsibilities:

• Design and development of electronic assemblies, from specification through to release into service
• Maintenance of existing designs and implementation of technology insertion programmes
• Ability to support off site trials activities
• Support the testing of high voltage alternators using bespoke test equipment
• Conduct testing on board customer platforms
• Translation of requirements into design detail
• Component selection, schematic capture, and support to PCB layout
• Specification of bespoke procured items
• Interfacing with related disciplines including mechanical/thermal engineering, ILS, Safety, and Production
• Able to follow the engineering lifecycle and undertake progress, peer and design reviews
• Design, develop and demonstrate system integrations
• Analysis of fibre optic systems using power meters and OTDRs

Benefits:

- Enhanced Pension scheme- up to 14% combined

- Flexible working pattern including working from home/ flexible start and finish times

- 25 holiday days plus bank holidays- 26 days after 5 years’ service/ 27 days after 10 years’ service

- Shared Incentive Plan

- Employee Assistance Programme

- Cycle to Work Scheme

- Life Assurance (you and your spouse/ partner)- 6 x salary

- Ill Health Income Protection/ Private Medical Insurance- 50% of salary

About You:

• The role holder will have a degree or equivalent in Electronic Engineering or strongly related subject, and have experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Previous experience of operating in a defence or high safety integrity environment
  • Experience of generating component level designs for introduction into volume production using computer-aided engineering
  • Demonstrable expertise in analogue circuit analysis
  • Sound understanding of basic analogue signal processing techniques such as active filtering
  • Understanding of good power supply discipline and decoupling
  • Experience of analogue to digital and digital to analogue conversion
  • Integration, design proving and defect resolution

Desirable

• Experience in, Fibre Optics, Power electronics, Test and measurement techniques would be advantageous
• Ability to work with a PCB designer and advise on circuit layout for EMC
• CEng or equivalent level of capability or working towards CEng status

You must be eligible to apply for SC clearance and, therefore, must hold a British passport and have lived and worked in the UK for the past 5 years

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