Job vacancy - Sustaining Engineer

Position: Sustaining Engineer
Reference: acsFsuseng
Location: Brighton
Salary: £25,000 - £35,000 per annum
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Job Title: Sustaining Engineer

Do you have a qualification in an Electronics discipline (degree minimum)? Do you have proven experience in analogue hardware design - inputs, converters, switching mode, power supplies, test & measurement? This is a fantastic opportunity to join an experienced team of people and become part of a rapidly growing company.

This is a key position for an experienced hardware engineer to play a leading role in the sustaining of the company's product range. You will work in the Brighton team maintaining and customizing products to fulfill customer requirements and ensuring the product meets regulatory standards.

You will do this by:

  • Managing obsolescence issues in legacy products to maintain production without negatively impacting product cost constraints.
  • Using your engineering skills to add value to existing products by taking out cost, adding functionality, resolving customer issues or improving DfM problems (VAVE).
  • Using your engineering skills to investigate to route cause and implement a solution for customer/internal product issues.
  • Assess customer requests for new features/improvement and implement them where feasible, whilst considering cost, technical feasibility, impact to approvals (EMC, FM, CSA, UL etc) and time to market.
  • Co-ordinating contractors, internal and external resource to resolve issues and implement projects.

This position will require the designing, implementation and testing of hardware prototypes at the subsystem level. Once proven, you will be required to integrate each subsystem with the wider system level hardware and product level testers. You will then co-ordinate any approval updates and conduct in house approval tests were required. Once the product is ready for launch you will co-ordinate the transfer of the product into production.

  • The candidate should have a strong understanding of analogue and digital hardware engineering with the ability to leverage expertise in international approval requirements to guarantee and maintain the marketability of current products.
  • The candidate will have a general understanding of the C programming language to be able to make small updates to firmware.

Key Responsibilities/Skills Required:

  • Lead and design improvement and customisation projects of medium complexity products including analogue and digital hardware design, layout and schematic entry.
  • Experience in hardware design on 8/16/32 Microprocessor systems.
  • Enhance the competencies and processes available in the sustaining team; therefore, must be comfortable in adhering to and enhancing processes.
  • Stay abreast of changes in relevant international standards and ensure that products meet those standards.
  • Good cooperation and team work skills with other engineers on site and in Germany and close management of contractors as needed.
  • Conform to the Company's Product Development Procedures to ensure continued compliance with ISO9001 and all other appropriate standards.

Position Qualifications:

  • Qualification in an Electronics discipline (degree minimum).
  • Proven experience in analogue hardware design - inputs, converters, switching mode, power supplies, test & measurement.
  • Well experienced in PCB schematic and layout design to meet stringent approvals requirements (CE, UL, FM, CSA) [Desirable: UL61010, EN61326 EMC].
  • Background in digital hardware design, - controllers, A/D converters, embedded firmware (C programming language).
  • Excellent problem-solving skills including problem identification, root cause analysis and potential solutions.
  • Experience design of low cost, mid complexity, mid volume products. Able to match technology to meet performance and price constraints.
  • Design experience with any professional CAD package (Cadence/Mentor/Altium).

ACS are recruiting for a Sustaining Engineer If you feel that you have the skills and experience required in this advertisement to be a Sustaining Engineer please submit your CV including an outline of your experience as a Sustaining Engineer It is always a good idea to include a covering letter outlining your experience as Sustaining Engineer with your application as this will enhance your chances of selection and improve your prospects of landing the Sustaining Engineer role you desire.