Connecting Talent to opportunity

Connecting Talent to opportunity

Senior Systems Engineer

Expired

Job Description:

The role will involve acting as the technical project lead to create advanced battery systems and sub-systems that integrate perfectly with customer or OEM equipment. This will involve eliciting system requirements and defining system architecture that satisfies them.

As an active member of the development team, this hands-on role will also involve specification of design requirements, implementation of system design elements and support of the hardware/software engineers to produce final outputs that are fully verified and validated.

The successful candidate will work with highly skilled likeminded people who are proactive and passionate about what they do in a company that is guided by core values, including: environmental, social, ethical and moral responsibility and integrity. As a result, we do not engage with products that cause deliberate harm to people or the environment.

As part of this company, the candidate will not simply be a number. They will be involved in decision making, customer interactions and helping to create exciting products in one of the world's fastest growing industries. It is the perfect role for a well-experienced, self-motivated engineer who is comfortable with being the person others turn to for help in solving complex systems engineering problems.

What you will be doing…
  • Elicit system / product requirements from customers and project stakeholders.
  • Define the architecture for new battery systems and sub-systems.
  • Create requirements / system / technical specifications for products.
  • Create full project and individual sub-system verification plans.
  • Oversee the outputs of hardware, software and other systems engineers to ensure they meet design specifications.
  • Support the design engineers in problem solving and key decision making.
  • Develop and design hardware / software / system elements to meet relevant specifications.
  • Carry out design optimisation for performance, safety and cost.
  • Perform compliance / reliability analyses on product designs.
  • Oversee hardware-software integration testing.
  • Take ownership of full-system / system integration testing.
  • Perform final product validation tasks including compliance testing / FAT / SAT.
  • Work within with the company's engineering processes and development guidelines.
  • Produce system user-guides / manuals.
  • Play an active role in team meetings and liaise with other cross-functional team members, suppliers and other interested parties throughout projects to encourage their involvement and participation.
  • Lead the creation and maintenance of technical files as new products are introduced, or existing products are changed.
  • Have a detailed and thorough understanding of our own products, and proactively seek to learn about competitors' products.
  • Provide technical support to other areas of the business when required.
  • Design and develop new products and product improvements, balancing innovative engineering design, functional requirements and aesthetic appeal with product safety, cost effectiveness, ease of manufacture, installation and maintainability.
  • Assist the commercial team in creating quotations for potential new projects.
  • Provide regular reports to senior members of staff on project progress.
What we are looking for…
  • A degree qualification in electronics, software or system engineering (or a similar relevant engineering discipline).
  • Industry experience in a hardware development, software development or systems engineering role.
  • Confidence to act as a project technical lead from concept through to production hand-over.
  • Ability to elicit product requirements from customers / internal stakeholders.
  • Ability to develop and document a full system architecture that meets product requirements.
  • Ability to perform industry design standards analyses and define design requirements based on these constraints.
  • Highly capable in creating design verification plans and running verification testing.
  • Proven record of both hardware and software (C, C++) design.
  • Sound knowledge of analogue and digital signal processing / filtering implementations.
  • Strong experience of wired communications systems such as CAN bus and RS485.
  • Strong understanding of low-power electronic system design.
  • Ability to perform full-system and sub-system reliability analyses (e.g. FMEAs)
  • Ability to debug systems and take full responsibility and an active part in fixing problems.
  • Expertise in hardware-software and full system integration.
  • Respect for design specifications and a willingness to create, follow and maintain them.
  • Ability to perform product compliance / product validation tasks.
  • Ability to lead customer FAT / SAT, and compliance testing both locally and at remote sites.
  • Confidence to work through problems with customers and suppliers, both inperson and remotely.
  • Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience working in an ISO9001 environment.

  • Job Type

    Permanent, Full Time

  • Work Authorisation

    No

  • Industry Sector Other