Benefits at Brompton:
Brompton offers you an excellent working environment with enthusiastic colleagues who get along, communicate and co-operate well with each other. The working climate is informal, but we work hard. Next to good terms of employment, Brompton offers you the opportunity to work in a responsible and challenging job within a dynamic, international and ambitious environment. We are all proud to be part of Brompton Bicycle Ltd; we all share the same passion and dedication to the company and the product, despite any differences in cultural backgrounds and skills. Flexible working
9 Day Fortnight if appliable This is a flexible working pattern which individuals can opt in for where an employee works their contractual hours across 9 days instead of 10 days. (i.e. 80 hours across 9 days instead of 10 days). This mean the individual would work an additional hour across Monday to Thursday (across the 2 week period) to gain their Friday off.?
Annual Leave 25 days annual leave, plus all UK bank holidays.
Competitive Salary Plus workplace pension scheme and profit share bonus.
Brompton Discount - Get ready to bike in style, as all employees receive up to 60% off their very own bike and accessories, plus there are discounts for your friends and family too. Throughout the year enjoy time with your colleagues as we host an annual Summer and Christmas party, annual bike rides (both inside and outside the UK), Birthday breakfast, volunteering activities and
Social activities - family fun days just to name a few.
Learning and Development - Opportunity to devote some of your time at work to personal development. We value professional development and actively promote internal promotions and opportunities.
Benefits - Workplace Pension Scheme, Care and Health Support, Flexible Working, Cycle to Work Scheme and other benefits.
Mental Health We provide access to a confidential EAP that offers counselling, resources and support for various mental health challenges. Theres also Head Space, Bromptons approved wellness program for employees.
Paid Leave We offer an enhanced Family, Paternity and Maternity leave pay.
The Role The role is focused supporting electronics team and development of new platform, requirements capture and development of low-cost and high reliability electronics onto existing and future platforms, as well as development of internal prototypes and test equipment. It requires a good knowledge of power, analog and embedded electronics as well as interest in embedded designs. This is a vital role in the creation and improvement of all Electric platforms within Brompton Bicycle, requiring a can-do approach candidate. Moreover, candidate will have opportunity to contribute toward electronic system architecture design, maturity, ways of working, promoting good engineering practices and system engineering.
Main duties Contributing to the development of low-cost & high reliability electronics into moderate volume markets through the entire engineering lifecycle,
Designing, analysing, and verifying electronics for consumer facing products, internal prototypes and test equipment,
Supporting technical development, other team members as well as external stakeholders on ad hoc basis,
Working with Systems and Software engineers to develop requirements & architectures, resolve complex systematic issues and integrate software onto hardware,
Assisting manufacturers with test equipment for electronic product lines, end of line testers.
Essential Skills
Preparing and presenting designs and concepts for electronic products and systems to colleagues, management and other stakeholders,
Drawing up detailed drawings, schematics and models using computer design software,
Review and release drawing including schematic, pcb capture and assembly drawing to manufacturers
Basic understanding of programming languages and ability to work with software tools (flashing/debugging tools and similar),
Ability to prepare cost estimates for product and technical solution.
Experience of defining and performing set-to-work and verification & validation, including simulation, worst-case analysis, bench testing,
Running effective testing and diagnostics that lead to measured product improvements,
General knowledge and understanding of EMC in a power electronics context,
Desirable Skills
Demonstrable experience of product life cycle design and support in electronics team environment,
Designing and building electronic components and circuits for use in products,
It would be beneficial to have knowledge of 3-phase inverters, DC-DC converters, microcontrollers, and analog electronics,
It would be advantages to have prior experience with PCB layout design and design for manufacturing.
Experience of working with electronic manufacturing in a moderate volume commercial or automotive context and interfacing with suppliers
Knowledge and/or experience of Systems Engineering principles, e.g. Requirements, Traceability,
Comfortable working on multiple projects simultaneously,
Knowledge of system engineering would be advantageous.
Knowledge of working to safety standards, e.g. IEC61508, ISO26262,
Knowledge of selecting and specifying cabling & connectors,
Knowledge of batteries and electric machines.
Education
Ideally the individual will have the following educational and professional qualifications or experience: Degree education in related subjects (computer science, systems engineering, electronics, electrical engineering, mechatronics, or equivalent),
The ability to demonstrate a solid engineering/technical background in a relevant environment,
The ability to demonstrate hands-on experience in a similar role,
The successful candidate will have at least 2+ years experience as an engineer, within R&D or commercial product design in electronics setting.
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