Electronics Engineer

Spirax-Sarco Ltd.; Redruth; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible working

Generous holiday allowance

Volunteer leave

Inclusion and wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, part of Spirax Group, is seeking an Electronics Engineer to deliver complex electronic schematics and PCBs for global product ranges. You will collaborate with mechanical and software teams, leverage CAD/CAE tools, and ensure designs meet manufacturing and regulatory standards.

The role emphasizes innovation, proactive problem solving, and contributing to agile project delivery across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• Honours degree in electronics/engineering.
• Experience in electronics engineering at graduate level or above.
• Experience from concept to manufacturing, including PCB layout and testing.
• Knowledge of digital/analogue interfaces (I2C, SPI, USB, LVDS).
• DFX/EMC compliance understanding and design-for-test mindset.

Responsibilities

• Create electronics schematics and PCB designs for products and projects.
• Use CAE/simulation tools to ensure robust, manufacturable designs.
• Interface with mechanical engineers for PCB enclosures and integration.
• Investigate issues with products and propose cross-functional solutions.
• Document production/test specs and maintain design records.
• Lead or support agile project activities and meet targets.

Skills

Embedded microprocessors

Digital electronics

Analogue electronics

Power electronics

DFX and EMC compliance

Schematic design

PCB layout

3D CAD (SolidWorks)

Education

Honours Bachelor degree in Electronics/Engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

PCB design tools

CAE tools

Job description

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 SpiraxGroup, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Groupwith expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermalsolutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies. When you join us, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouragingteam, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoinggrowth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit ourwebsite to learn more.

Key Responsibilities

• Using hardwaredesign expertise and experience to deliver a wide range of electronic schematicsand PCB designs to further and maintain our product range and projects.
• Use simulation andCAE tools, backed by experience, to produce sound, robust and manufacturableproducts both for small- and large-scale manufacturing and can easily interfacewith Global partners and manufactures.
• To investigate any functional,customer, supply and manufacturing issues and identify solutions working withsoftware and project partners.
• Mechanicalinterfacing of PCBs to enclosures and other mechanical parts through extensiveuse of CAD/CAE, working closely with the Mechanical Engineers and projectpartners.
• Generation ofrequired documentation for production and test.
• To research newtechnologies and work with other across the Engineering team to implement
• To manage projectsor tasks within projects as required.
• To ensure allelectronics designs are rigorously tested and comply with all relevantstandards, directives and regulations
• To work to andproactively look to improve existing processes
• To provide input andtechnical expertise to the development electronics strategies at WMFTS
• To help create anagile, creative, pro‑active, efficient and effective working environment.

Other Accountabilities include

• Absorb and collate differing amountsof product & customer information and turn it into a concise summaryto allow requirements to be easily understood and conveyed.
• Ensure the best practices are employedin any design study, project activity or sub-contract activity, includingpro‑active peer reviews of designs
• Interpretproduct and market requirements and convey them into a design, construct ahardware requirements specification around which the design is constructedto ensure visibility of the design and to allow challenge, filter, ensureclarity and test theories.
• Createand foster a culture of openness, technical excellence, continuousimprovement and learning.
• Workingwithin an Agile environment; work with the software team to ensure that projectsmeet targets, using the visual management tools, review code/hardwareintegration and progress, actively working to understand the coding andtesting approach and the interaction with the electronics hardware,inputting as appropriate to improve output.
• Workwith teams of all sizes to actively achieve a common goal, to pulltogether when challenges face the team and focus on solutions.
• Maintaina positive attitude when facing challenges, focus on understanding theproblem and providing a solution.
• Investigate,using practical methods, to understand functional issues with products,both on new product development and when solving engineering issues withexisting products.
• Communicateconcisely and convey technical information in a simple, professionalformat with a range of stakeholders, including with customers.
• Beaccountable for information and decisions, stay calm when challenged andpush 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 takingcare 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 GroupInclusion Plan

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive andequitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve theirfull potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationshipswhere everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and culturalbackgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities,neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything elsethat makes us human and unique. We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we willalways consider requests for flexible working. We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so wehave introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group InclusionCommitments. These include

• Gender-neutral parental leave
• 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave
• Paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss ordomestic abuse
• Menopause-friendly workplace principles and more

Learn more at spiraxgroup.com/inclusion.

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. Ifyou would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in ourapplication form. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusiveand diverse workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds toapply. If you require accommodations during the application process, please let usknow.

Company Overview

At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, part of Spirax Group, we aredriven by innovation and are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplacewhere everyone is empowered to make a difference. As a world leader inmanufacturing peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies forthe life sciences and process industries, we offer a wide range of products,including tubing, specialised filling systems and products for single-useapplications. Our shared Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholdersas we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Ourtechnologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes andindustrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage,Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors andHealthcare. With customers in 116 countries, we provide the solutions thatsit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beansto mobile phones! Our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions andinspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to maketheir difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers,our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environmentwhere everyone feels included.