Engineering Manager (Electronics)

My client is a leading Manufacturing company based in Peterlee, County Durham, They now require an Engineering Manager, reporting to the Engineering Director, The role is strongly technical, mixed discipline, with a hands-on electronics design focus, at a concept and specification level. An experienced background in Electronic product Engineering and battery technology, and the ability to manage multiple projects at the same time is essential. Job Overview -To support the capture of new business by creating alternate design concepts and performance specifications from customer inputs using a wide variety of cell technologies, and other components and materials. -Work with the Engineering Director and Sales personnel to discuss and propose new designs with the customer. This requires in depth knowledge of cell and battery specification and performance and customer facing skills. -Detail electronics design including battery BMS systems utilizing Texas BQ and other technologies, PCBA design using Altium, and the assembly and testing of prototypes. -Design and development of embedded firmware, programming, parameter setup of the electronic components such as PIC processors, battery control ICs etc. -Provision of effective and very high performance test solutions for manufacturing either through hands-on design or 3rd party sourcing. Knowledge of PC programming would be beneficial to support this. -Sound, detailed engineering methodologies and attention to detail, including specification, tolerances and margins, failure mode analysis, risk management, documentation and team reviews. -Understanding of, and application of appropriate design principles for EMC, safety, efficiency and other regulatory compliance standards appropriate to our business. -Creation of all design documentation including assembly, bills of materials, project planning, test and verification / qualification plans, and associated procedures. -Project planning and management experience. -Identification of alternate components where necessary (such as obsolescence) -Manage design changes -Detailed and systematic approach to fault finding. Specific experience with analog and digital electronic circuitry. -Support technical investigation into customer complaints, provide detailed technical investigations where required. Provide technical support for Operations and customers -Preferable experience with regulatory approvals, including some of UL, FM, CE, Intrinsic Safety and other regulatory requirements -Work to requirements of ISO9001 and ISO13485 framework Skills/Experience -Has a solid understanding of electronics theory as applicable to the design and production of battery associated equipment in a production environment. -Experience of hardware product development in a low / medium volume production environment -Industry knowledge - cells, battery ICs and associated components -PCBA design and layout: Altium PCBA design experience. Component selection, schematics, layout. -PIC programming design experience. -BQ Battery IC setup and creation of Golden Images. -Project planning Experience. Basic skills with MS Project, Gantt charts. -Experience with analog and digital design including earthing techniques, analog and digital conversion, calibration and instrumentation practices -Minimum of 5 years' experience in an electronic production environment Benefits -Up to £55k -Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours -Holidays 22 days rising up to max 25 with service, 8 bank holidays. This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89779452