Lead Electronic Hardware Engineer

Energy Consulting group; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Cheltenham is seeking an Electronic Hardware Engineer. This role involves managing technical issues for aviation products, providing post-design support, and ensuring adherence to design processes. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree along with extensive knowledge of electronic systems and experience in engineering management. The position offers opportunities for leadership and improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
• Experience in systems engineering and product design lifecycle.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage engineering issues and provide post-design support.
• Oversee obsolescence issues and implement corrective actions.
• Ensure communication with customers and internal departments.

Skills

Problem-solving

Leadership abilities

Analytical skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Job description

Job Description Summary

The Electronic Hardware Engineer is the engineering design authority for assigned aviation products. This leadership development role is within the sustaining engineering team and has technical responsibility for aerospace electronics and primary and secondary power distribution products as they are introduced into production and throughout their lifecycle. The key responsibilities are design authority and ownership of all technical issues; this includes through-life design support activities, product improvement, lessons learned and the management of small projects.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

• Provide post-design support of engineering issues, establishing root cause analysis and process improvements as appropriate.
• Managing obsolescence issues, including re-design, risk analysis, cost, last-time-buy, documentation configuration and customer approval.
• Ensuring adherence to the CCD’s is followed.
• Management and approval of corrective actions and non-conformances.
• Liaison between customers, suppliers, and multiple internal departments.
• Management of certification, re-qualification, and re-verification activities.
• Communicate throughout all levels of the business, giving regular progress reports to peers and colleagues.
• Identify, develop, and implement continual improvement practices in all business areas worked also ensuring all lessons learnt back into relevant design teams.
• Support of customer returns with detailed root cause analysis and investigation.
• Responsible for Supply Chain design engineer support
• Accountable for cost analysis, OEM & work with PSE on customer returns, and recommend ideas for improvement
• Accountable for obsolescence tracking, and managing small obsolescence updates

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field from an accredited university or college (or equivalent knowledge and experience)
• Extensive knowledge of one or more of (Electronic Product) systems engineering, analogue electronics, digital electronics, or mechanical engineering design
• Working knowledge of product design lifecycle, qualification, and verification methods
• Experience in engineering management or a leadership role within an engineering environment with direct people management responsibility
• Proven analytical and organizational ability

Desired:

• Demonstrated ability to analyse and resolve problems.
• Ability to influence others and lead matrixed teams
• Strong decision-making skills in a leadership role
• Strong collaborator leveraging technical networks and relationships across global organizations
• Highly self-sufficient
• A positive attitude, initiative, pro-activeness and an enthusiasm and passion for Systems Engineering will help you succeed in the department. If you share our team vision to demonstrate success by achieving and exceeding customer expectations, then apply now!

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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