Electronic Engineer

Electrical / Electronic Instrumentation Engineer required for fast growing, progressive and successful international Aerospace Manufacturer.

Job Title: Electrical / Electronic Instrumentation Engineer

Location: Near Aylesbury

Salary: £40 – 45K per annum plus benefits including parking

Relocation package potentially available

Hours of Work: 40 hours per week (Mon-Fri)

A lovely opportunity to join a well-established and growing Aerospace and Defence group in a busy role offering good potential for further development and training. Please note this role is very much a ‘hands-on’ role rather than a design role.

Skills & Attributes required:

* Degree, HND or equivalent in Electronic Engineering based subject with an emphasis on practical field experience combined with a solid fundamental theory base.

* Good understanding of data acquisition fundamentals, types of sensors normally used (pressure transducers, flow meters, temperature sensors) including both transmitter (4-20mA type) and transducer (voltage) output types of sensors.

* Good understanding of the importance of calibration, best industry practices and minimization of cumulative errors.

* Basic understanding of drive electronics for conversion of 5V (or 3.3V) level TTL signals to high current drives for operating 1A or higher solenoids.

* Good soldering skills and experience with crimping of terminal pins. Hand soldering of both through hole and surface mount devices is required down to 0805 package size

* Understanding electronic schematics, identification of physical components and a comprehensive understanding of underlying component functions (passive components, operational amplifiers as well as digital electronics including microcontrollers).

* Analogue and digital theory basics

* Basic understanding of National Instruments LabVIEW data acquisition and control hardware/ecosystem, ideally with experience of the C-series modules.

* Some basic understanding of RS485/RS422/RS232 serial buses and the MODBUS protocol.

* Good IT skills based around the MS Windows operating system.

Additionally, any experience in the following would be helpful but isn’t essential:

* Electronic design capability (both analogue and digital electronics) preferably via an EDA software suite (ideally KiCAD or similar)

* Coding experience and a desire to automate and improve legacy systems. The languages of LabVIEW, C++, VBA, and Python are highly desirable.

Duties:

* Maintenance of various data acquisition and control systems including generation of a preventative maintenance plan

* Providing first point of call for all investigations (de-bugging) of anomalous behaviour associated with electrical and electronic function. This includes high power (mains) electrics as well as the low lower instrumentation (low voltage) electronics. Mains electric fault diagnosis is on a triage basis only.

* Supporting engine firing campaigns to ensure smooth running test facilities

* Support meetings and interactions with customers regarding relevant instrumentation information

* Providing a circuit board manufacturing capability. This includes prototype boards (Vero® or strip boards) as well as populating externally manufactured bare PCBs.

* Providing a manufacturing capability for interconnecting harnesses

* Provide manufacturing capability for complete module boxes (typically 19” rack boxes containing PCB’s, power supplies as well as front and rear indicators/connectors) for firing sites as well as Electronic Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) for flight systems

* Provide end-to-end testing of all manufactured components – ranging from simple harness continuity checks through to more complex signal response testing of data acquisition systems.

* Owning and maintaining the small electronics lab, taking responsibility for equipment upkeep and stock maintenance.

* Provide basic electronic design capability when needed.

Interested? Please forward your CV as soon as possible.

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