Mentmore | Electronics Engineer

Mentmore
Edinburgh
2 months ago
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Job Title:Electronics Engineer

Reports to: Hardware Manager

Location:South Wales / Hybrid

Salary:£45 000 - £55 000

Company Information:

We specialize in designing and manufacturing innovative monitoring and telemetry solutions for critical networks and infrastructure. Our products serve a range of industries, including water, wastewater, gas, and energy management, as well as environmental monitoring.

With over 30 years of expertise in clean water and distribution system monitoring, we have recently expanded into broader sectors, including utility consumption, gas network monitoring, and flood and environmental management. Our solutions empower customers to optimize operations, conserve resources, reduce costs, and enhance sustainability.

We are part of a larger global group, comprising over 40 companies, all focused on creating technologies that protect lives and improve quality of life across industries worldwide.

Main Tasks:

Driving development and innovation taking on responsibility for product electronic designs and prototyping.

Develop + test solutions to problems to ensure product quality. Identify and recommend product improvements to improve technical performance.

Understanding, compiling, and managing the implementation of customer requirements flow for hardware design through to internal and external suppliers.

Carrying out acceptance activities for products submitted by supplier organisations.

Leading the qualification, test, and requirements management aspects of physical design, including EMC and radio performance.

Generate product documentation and maintenance of existing designs and drawings (schematic, BOM, PCB, cables etc.).

Carrying out feasibility studies for new technical innovations. Attending meetings, writing reports, and giving presentations to managers and clients.

Travel within UK and abroad may occasionally be required.

Confidential

Experience and Skills Required

Excellent academic record in Electrical/Electronic Engineering.

At least 2 years’ experience in both analogue and digital electronic hardware design within a relevant industry.

Good working knowledge of analogue and digital design including microcontrollers, low power design, high-speed digital design, designing for low cost/high volume and lithium battery power management.

Experience of simulation using Spice as well as schematic capture, PCB layout and library management (Altium or similar).

Self-motivated to work with minimal supervision on multiple simultaneous projects as a part of a small team of Engineers.

Good communication skills verbally and in writing (producing design documentation)

Good knowledge of compliance requirements – CE, FCC, EMC, RoHS, etc.

Experience of using test equipment such as logic/signal analysers, oscilloscopes, function generators, spectrum analysers, network analysers, multimeters etc.

Desirable Skills and Experience

Embedded firmware skills in C.

Modelling and analytical skills in MATLAB/Octave or similar.

Radio system certification.

Design-in experience with microcontrollers such as ARM, AVR or MSP430. Experience with GSM/GPRS technology.

Power converter systems design.

Audio systems design.

Experience of designing products for intrinsic safety (ATEX, IECEx, Hazloc).

Qualifications:

Educated to Degree level in a relevant field.

Personal attributes:

Committed, flexible, excellent time management skills, ability to work under pressure.

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