Job summary

Superb opportunity for an Lead Hardware Engineer to join a global organisation at one of their most established business units in Luton. You will work on Analogue and Digital design projects for harsh environments.

Key skills required for this role

Analog and Digital, Electronic Design

Important

Electronic Design

Job description

Our client, a long-standing leader in the aerospace sector, is on the lookout for a Lead Hardware Engineer to become part of their dynamic team in Luton. With a rich history of over 125 years, the division is well-renowned for protecting people, processes, and assets in the most challenging environments. This role presents an exciting opportunity to work within a unique and culturally diverse plant, contributing to the delivery of high-quality hardware solutions.

In this role you will work with a team of hardware engineers in the delivery of a mix of products ranging from low volume, high value rugged industrial workstations, to high volume intrisically safe isolators/barriers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Active participation in a culture of continuous improvement, refining and defining procedures and processes to ensure good quality product meeting cost and time-to-market objectives
• Responsible for capturing, specifying and managing design requirements
• Undertake and/or supervise verification and validation of new product designs to ensure that these requirements have been met
• Design and develop new products
• Apply expertise to the design of electronics products, advancing the capabilities of the department
• Support peer and formal design reviews, ensuring robust and productive processes
• Ensure adherence to Design to Cost, Design for Manufacture and Design for Test best practices
• Participate in the definition of product roadmaps
• Support concept/bid phase evaluation of projects with respect to task identification and estimation
• Provide technical support to Sales, Marketing, Operations and external customers when detailed product knowledge is required

Job Requirements:

• Relevant Engineering Degree such as Electronics
• Experience in high and low volume product development
• Experience in both analogue and digital electronic development for regulated markets requiring standards adherence and certification would be beneficial

Skills:

• Capable of independent working
• Six-Sigma background would be a plus
• Ability to write clear and unambiguous process and product documentation

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Challenging projects in a dynamic collaborative team
• Internal promotion opportunities
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities through internal training programmes

If you are ready to take on a significant role in the aerospace industry and contribute to cutting-edge hardware development, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our client's innovative and collaborative team in Luton.