Recruiter

Mackenzie Maughan Consulting Ltd

Salary

From £30,000 to £40,000 per year + Excellent benefits

Location

Bath

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Electronics Design Engineer

REPORTING TO: Electronics Design Manager

EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum high grade Bachelor Hons Degree or equivalent in Electrical/Electronic Engineering.

EXPERIENCE
- Experience in industry is necessary since graduating, working as an Electronics Design engineer
- Some knowledge of, or experience in, the following fields would be desirable:
- Software design using high-level languages i.e. C, C++ for embedded microcontrollers.
- Digital electronics design including microcontroller applications.
- Analogue electronics design.
- Design experience in embedded wireless applications
- Designs to meet internationally recognised approvals standards.
- Design for manufacture.
- CAD systems in particular Viewlogic/Pads.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS
- The desire to learn and develop in a well motivated team.
- Ability to work to tight time and cost targets is essential.
- The candidate should be self-motivated with good practical skills and a thorough approach to their work.
- The successful candidate will be required to liaise with both suppliers and customers, which may in turn necessitate occasional overseas travel.

JOB SUMMARY: The company’s products incorporate state of the art electronic designs incorporating single chip microcontrollers and ASICs. The applications are varied and include actuator control electronics and Fieldbus network communication.

As an Electronics Design Engineer in the company you will be involved in the hardware and software design of our electronics modules.
Key Aspects of role:-
- Working as a member of the electronics team.
- Involved in the design and implementation of electronics designs.
- Design and test of electronics designs to ensure product requirements are met.
- Detailed Hardware and software design involved.
- Design skills in embedded microcontroller applications
- Experience in development of wireless based products would be an advantage.
- Some overseas travel may be required

MAIN TASKS

1) Design of hardware and software products and supporting equipment, including the preparation of such records as may be necessary to demonstrate compliance with its associated specification and any relevant standards under the guidance of a Senior Engineer and the Engineering manager

2) Test and evaluation of products designed within the Electronics team.

3) Participating in design reviews, audits and testing to ensure that designs and products comply with specifications and relevant standards.

4) Ensuring the availability of design records and documentation and to assist with the production of Sales and Service literature.

5) Liaison with suppliers, customers and other departments, including such visits as may be required both in the UK and overseas.

6) Provision of technical support to Sales, Service, Production, Buying and Quality departments as required.

7) Conducting feasibility studies and research into new methods of valve actuation and the evaluation of relevant new technologies.

8) Production of specifications for new products including associated project plans and test programs.

Recruiter

Mackenzie Maughan Consulting Ltd

Salary

From £28,000 to £36,000 per year + Excellent benefits

Location

Bath

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Software Analyst and Programmer

Key Results Areas

Development :
• A key role in Development and improvements to our Business Systems.
• Report and application development based on combination of software vendors “Reporter”, Oracle SQL, Unix scripting, X++, and Visual Studios.
• Supporting the help desk with problem interrogation and fixes
• Assist in the management of vendor-supplied software updates and fixes
• Assist with software installation, initial testing and deployment

Skills/Knowledge//Experience/Motivation Requirements

Experience

Essential

Programming skills:
• Oracle SQL
• Unix scripting (IBM AIX)
• Proprietary programming language “Reporter” provided by ERP software vendor
• HTML, ASP, XML, JAVA, C#
• User application screen development using ERP software provider’s tools

A good technical knowledge and skills of:
• Unix environments
• IIS and IIS server administration
• Network infrastructure
• Microsoft server environment
• Hardware configuration in a Unix environment
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power point, Access): Familiar with and able to utilize in job function, advanced user skills such as macros.

Strong technology, team working and customer facing skills are essential.

Qualifications

Desirable

Ideally an I.T graduate who focused on applications and programming during their studies or post graduate work experience

Essential

• Good organizational skills and effective prioritization and scheduling of tasks
• Needs to be able to effectively communicate with users
• Good analytical skills to understand business processes and user requirements
• Good meeting skills, including creating agenda’s and ability to chair and organise


Desirable

• Keen to develop their application development skills
• Keen to gain and develop knowledge and skills in application development
• Looking to join a friendly and effective IT team environment

Our client is an international engineering and manufacturing company employing over 2,500 staff worldwide.

The position is part of a small team, Involved in the development and improvement of our Business Systems, ensuring applications and user interfaces are maximized and running smoothly. There will be full range of job responsibilities as well exposure to a wide range of legacy and new technologies

Our clients application environment comprises a variety of platforms and products. Factories run on a system called Evolution [contact details removed] , document management is on IBM Filenet, a number of in-house developments use a platform called QTrack, and SalesNet is used for global tracking of sales opportunities. Support for these applications is across a wide range of SQL, Oracle and Sequel database systems.
Our client is investing significantly in a new generation of applications, based on Microsoft Dynamics AX and SharePoint. This provides exciting opportunities for gaining new skills in application development.

Being part of a small team means involvement in all aspects, including support of help desk, interfacing with and supporting business users of all live applications; gaining skills in the application development tools and functionality, so that problem investigation and diagnosis can be performed.