Job summary

Electrical Engineering (Communications) - 12 month contract - Barrow-In-Furness - £49.02ph UMB or PAYE rates available (Inside IR35)

Key skills required for this role

Electrical Engineering, Communications,

Important

Electrical Engineering (Communications)

Job description

Due to the security of this role, we can only accept applications from candidates that are a permanent resident of the UK

Communications represents another sub-discipline within Electronics and as its name suggests focused on inter-connectivity at a high level. Often originating from telecoms, IT or Radio background these engineers typically specialise into one of the following Systems whilst maintaining a strong knowledge of the whole sub-discipline:

• Wire free Communications
• Digital / IP Telephony
• Plain Old Telephone Systems (POTS)
• Visual Surveillance
• Distributed Media Systems
• Broadcast Audio
• Fibre Optics

Communications has very close ties to the Software, Computing and IT disciplines and knowledge in either will prove valuable in the other should you be interested.

Electronics/Communications are involved across the product lifecycle:

• Concept design and development
• Design maturity and engineering outputs for procurement, manufacturing and build
• Factory Acceptance Tests
• System Integration
• Build support, supplier liaison and defect resolution
• Dockside Test Organisation support, input to test paths and authorisation groups
• Sea-trials
• In-service/Through Life support with the customer and 3rd party maintenance operations
• Upgrades and modifications
• Application of Learning from Experience across the submarines enterprise

Key internal relationships for Electronics/Communications engineering includes but is not limited to:

• Electrical Stage 2/3 Designers
• Test and Commissioning

All Platform and Combat systems teams requiring data communications, measurement and electronic control etc