Lead Electronics Engineer

Kohler Mira Ltd.; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Kohler Mira Ltd. seeks a Lead Electronics Engineer for its New Product Development department in Cheltenham. The role involves overseeing hardware and firmware design for innovative consumer products, collaborating within a multidisciplinary team. Candidates should possess a degree in relevant engineering fields and extensive industry experience. Kohler Mira offers excellent growth opportunities and a robust benefits package.

Benefits

Company bonuses

Support for personal and technical development

Flexible work opportunities

Qualifications

• 7+ years of industry experience required.
• Experience in new product development industry essential.
• Expertise in embedded C and PCB layout necessary.

Responsibilities

• Oversee hardware and firmware design for new products from concept to end of life.
• Provide engineering guidance to support and manufacturing teams post-launch.
• Develop hardware circuit designs and embedded software for consumer products.

Skills

Collaboration

Analogue/Digital electronics knowledge

Embedded systems

Strong communication skills

Education

Bachelors degree in Electronics/Electrical/Systems engineering

Tools

Altium

ECAD

Job description

Onsite-Cheltenham.

Salary up to £58k subject to skills & experience, plus a fantastic benefits package including company bonuses

Closing date for applications 1st June.

Kohler Mira Ltd is a successful multi brand organisation that has grown significantly over 100 years and has always innovatively led the way in showering technology. Kohler Co., our parent company since 2001 and themselves in their 150th year, employs over 30,000 associates worldwide and is a global leader in the manufacture of kitchen & bath products, hospitality and an operator of golf and resort destinations.

Mira Showers is one of the best known, market leading UK brands of showering products, continuously developing innovative new domestic bathroom products for all types of plumbing systems.

Our Rada Controls brand brings that same innovation and cutting-edge design to commercial washroom environments such as sports and leisure facilities, medical facilities and institutions with products specifically designed for commercial and public buildings.

From day one, youre part of the Kohler Mira community a collaborative, forward focused team with a shared pride in our work and commitment to delight our customers, develop innovative products and services and inspire our customers (who knew a bathroom manufacturing company did all this?!)

Position Summary

We are looking for a Lead Electronics Engineer to join our New Product Development (NPD) department.

NPD is a dynamic, fast paced and focused department that is responsible for developing and delivering next generation bathing experiences. As a Lead Electronics Engineer within NPD, you will be responsible for oversight and delivery of hardware and firmware design on new products, from early concept through to end of life, ensuring compliance with industry standard design gate processes. You will ensure high-quality design and integration of technology into market leading products, collaborating with a global team of engineers from all disciplines alongside Marketing and Design functions.

The successful individual will be someone who is passionate about consumer product development and thrives in rapid project execution environments. You will be solution-focused and able to demonstrate a proven track record of taking ownership of electronics design activities within complex projects with demanding timescales and working within a multi-disciplinary project team. As a lead engineer, you will be expected to role model and demonstrate high levels of performance and behaviours to more junior members of the team and act as an informal mentor.

About The Role

• Your primary objective will be to work alongside your multi-discipline project team, and other Electronics Engineers, to contribute towards transitioning early development concepts into more advanced prototypes and ultimately a volume manufactured product. Youll succeed by working through our robust, structured, design-gate process to ensure that the final design is delivered on-time, on-cost, and at high quality.
• In addition to new product designs, there will also be opportunities to provide engineering and technical guidance to our product support and manufacturing teams. Even after a successful product launch, we continue our drive to improve product cost/quality through hardware design changes for easier manufacture, alternative component sourcing to ease supply chain constraints and analysing and fixing product software bugs reported through our field service and contact centre teams.
• Youll be developing hardware circuit designs from both first principles as well as tried-and-tested designs, capturing your circuit designs in ECAD and transitioning them into a physical PCB design, working alongside mechanical engineers to ensure the design is right first time.
• Youll also be developing the embedded software that will be loaded onto the product to ensure a polished and delightful customer experience with our product in addition to creating bespoke software deliverables for product compliance and development/endurance testing.
• One of the key responsibilities within this role is to provide technical guidance and direction to the Marketing and Industrial Design teams in regard to emerging product technologies and feasibility as we drive our new product roadmap over the next 5+ years, adapting to challenging market conditions and finding new innovative ways to push the design envelope and raise customer expectations in increasingly commoditised markets.
• There are many opportunities to grow your career at Kohler Co. Youll be provided with support with developing a robust personal and technical development plan, mentoring from more senior team and department members and the opportunity for pursuing sponsored, formal accreditation such as Chartered Engineer status if desired.
• The position reports into the Electronics and Connected Products Programme Manager and sits within a multi-disciplinary project team blending other business functions including mechanical engineering, manufacturing, marketing, product compliance, customer services, industrial design and external suppliers.
  
  

Skills/Requirements

• Bachelors degree (Or higher) in Electronics/Electrical/Systems engineering or equivalent disciplines.
• 7+ Years of industry experience
• Experience in new product development industry
• Highly motivated and self-driven with excellent interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills.
• Strong collaboration skills
• Analogue/Digital electronics knowledge
• Sustained experience in delivering hardware and firmware for consumer products
• Expertise in developing real-time embedded firmware for a range of microcontroller platforms (ARM, Atmel etc.)
• Expertise in delivering projects using schematic capture and PCB layout (Altium, OrCAD or other industry tool)
• Expertise in embedded C, object-oriented design and bare metal
• Strong understanding of EMC and PCB design rules and test experience to meet compliance electrical and radio requirements (CE, RED, FCC)
• Good exposure to design validation techniques such as DFMEA, DFM
  
  

Desirable

• Design for high volume manufacturing
• Experience with design failure analysis of consumer products
• Strong knowledge of power electronics and signal processing
• Experience designing products with BLE with the Nordic Zephyr RTOS
• Experience designing products with: WiFi, MQTT, Matter
• Familiarity using FreeRTOS or similar ecosystems.
• Experience with Modbus and BACnet BMS product integration.
  
  

We can offer you a lot in return!

We empower each associate to #BecomeMoreAtKohler with a competitive total rewards package to support your health and wellbeing, access to career growth and development opportunities, a diverse and inclusive workplace, and a strong culture of innovation. With a genuine commitment to creating better tomorrows, were driving meaningful change in our mission to help people live gracious, healthy, and sustainable lives.

About Us

In the UK, Kohler Mira Ltd. is made up of three market leading brands: Mira Showers, Rada Controls, and Recoup Where our brands differ in market position, they are equal in their commitment to design, innovation, and providing a single level of quality regardless of price.

Kohler Mira is committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse associates, consumers, partners, and global communities.

As an equal opportunities employer, it is Kohler Miras policy to recruit, hire, and promote qualified people in all job classifications without prejudice. If, as an individual with a disability, you require adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact .

Note for Recruitment Agencies: The Kohler Talent Acquisition team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible. We do work with recruitment agencies, and where we require external support, we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us. Speculative CVs sent by any agency to Kohler Co. without a specific request by our Talent Acquisition Team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.

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