Electronics Engineer

Electronics Engineer – Radiation Effects

Bristol (primarily based onsite) – 6 month contract – Pay rate £40-£45 p/h Umbrella (£30.77 - £34.62 PAYE basic (£35.24 to £39.65 PAYE including holiday pay)

We are looking for an Electronic Engineer to work for our defence client. The Electronic Engineering function is a friendly and supportive environment. Within the function, you will be working with other engineers who have a collective wealth of experience across a wide range technologies and products and are happy to share their knowledge to support one another, ensuring opportunities for improvement are identified and best practice is upheld.

The experience you bring will be met with enthusiasm and you will be encouraged to share any learning.

Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for developing cutting-edge electronic solutions for weapon systems. This will include on board missile sub-systems and Land, Sea and Air based Firing Units. Your role will entail responsibility for the quality and performance of the electronic solution together with providing cost and schedule updates to a project manager.
• You will have a sound track record in electronic design capability throughout the product life cycle, i.e. early concept through to production. The technical solutions you will implement will range across the Power and Analogue Electronics sphere of expertise and will be at both sub-system and board level.
• This role will require you to liaise with other domains, e.g. Software, Firmware, Mechanical, Environmental, EMC etc. to ensure your designs perform in all respects to the requirements placed upon you. In so doing you will be key to delivering world class missile solutions to our customers.

Requirements:

• Proven ability in Electronic Design, development and delivery.
• Can demonstrate the capability to lead significant Electronic design work packages and have able to work within a multi-disciplinary team with the awareness and understanding of the challenges that this may bring.
• Excellent problem solving skills and knowledge of a wide range of electronic technologies and products.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to influence and negotiate with stakeholders across the business.
• Specialist technical knowledge for the testing of equipment and systems to meet military requirements in anechoic and reverberation chambers.

Additional information:

Please note, due to the sensitive nature of the projects involved, all candidates must be capable of gaining a UK MOD Security Clearance to SC level. If you are not currently SC cleared the client will sponsor a new application and you can start while this is pending.

This role shall operate inside IR35.