You will be an experienced hands-on PCB Design Engineer who has designed products for manufacture, accustomed to working to deadlines and able to communicate with customers in an eloquent and professional manner. You will be self-managing and highly motivated with a methodical, analytical approach and a willingness to work to existing design ethics and style.
Essential skills and experience:
* Layout planning and progression
* Layout quotations & negotiation
* Layout team workload coordination and planning
* CID or CID+ Certified
* Customer contact & technical consultation
* Contract negotiation and management
* Liaison with CAD Vendors and IT Interaction
* Layout contractor management and overseeing
* Contractor resource identification and engagement
* Develop PCB designs supporting both new and maintaining current products
* Creating complete design packages, to include all PCB design data
* Read, understand, and interpret engineering drawings & electronic circuit symbols
* Create single image and panelised designs reflecting in-house manufacturing rules
* Review and check design data to ensure production standards are maintained
* Working confidently and liaising with PCB and project design team members
* Provide efficient placement and routing analysis for design consideration
* Be able to work to deadlines and produce work of high quality
* Degree level qualified with an electronics engineering discipline or equivalent
* Proven experience of at least one of the following
* Altium Designer
* Cadence Orcad/Allegro
* Siemens PADS
* Experience of designing with high-speed digital design, analogue or complex circuits, including fine pitch components (BGA) and high pin count devices
* Experience of working within an engineering design environment
* Ability to work to predefined timescales and deadlines
* Understanding electronic design documentation (schematic and layout definitions)
* Familiarity of PCB fabrication and assembly processes
* Understanding of Design for Manufacture / Test (DFM, DFT)
* PC literate and familiar with Microsoft office
Desirable skills and experience:
* Experience of Product Data Management (PDM) systems
* Experience of electronic circuits and components
* PCB routing for impedance control, power planes and signal integrity
* Experience of Signal Integrity Analysis
* Experience of Power Integrity Analysis
* Experience of Conductive Thermal Analysis
* Experience of EMC requirements for PCB design
* Knowledge of UL, FCC, and CE certification
* Knowledge and ability to work to IPC & ECSS standards
* Keeping up to date with design tools and methods
* Focussed and self-motivated
* The ability to understand, review, and develop processes to enhance and support PCB design role
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