Industrial Design jobs in United Kingdom

Senior Electronics Engineer
Hybrid- with at least 3 days per week onsite in Cheltenham.
Salary up to £55k subject to skills & experience, plus a fantastic benefits package including company bonuses

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, you're 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're seeking a Senior Electronics Engineer to join our fast-paced New Product Development (NPD) team, focused on delivering next-generation bathing experiences. You'll lead hardware and firmware design from concept to end-of-life, ensuring compliance with industry standards and seamless integration into market-leading products.

With a strong background in consumer product development, you'll thrive in dynamic environments and take ownership of complex, time-sensitive electronics projects. Collaborating across engineering, marketing, and design teams, you'll bring technical expertise and a solution-focused mindset. As a senior team member, you'll also mentor junior engineers and set a high standard for performance and professionalism.

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. You'll 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.

• You'll 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.

• You'll 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.

Skills/Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (Or higher) in Electronics/Electrical/Systems engineering or equivalent disciplines.

• 5+ 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

• Experience in developing real-time embedded firmware for a range of microcontroller platforms (ARM, Atmel etc.)

• Experience 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

• Good 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, we're 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 Mira's 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 talentacquisitionuk@kohler.com.

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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