Electronics Manager Digital Electronics Subcontractor Lead

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Location: South East, West Sussex, Crawley
Job type: Contract
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Contact: Simon Page
Sector: Electronics
Job Role:

Electronics Manager (Digital Electronics Subcontract Lead)

Crawley - 6 month duration - £45 to £55 p/h negotiable

We are looking to recruit an Electronics Engineering Manager to work for a leading defence client on an Airborne Radar project. You will undertake a mixture of digital electronic design and development tasks as well as taking responsibility for the technical management of a key subcontractor.

Primary Purpose of the Job

To become a key part of a team with a proven track record for delivering hardware for a wide range of land, sea and air based defence related products, developing bespoke hardware solutions for Customers or standard reusable solutions for Product Lines and variants thereof. Work is carried out to a structured hardware design process.

The role will offer experience over a number of different product areas, encompassing everything from product design and development through to larger scale platform integration and will be focussed around the core skills associated with a Digital Hardware Engineer, including the following: hardware architecture, requirements specification, schematic capture, design, Firmware development, hardware integration, verification, validation and design assurance activities. This will also require the technical management of Subcontractors.

Key Tasks

  • Decomposition and interpretation of system requirements & algorithms
  • Digital design, primarily electro-mechanical
  • Technical Management of Subcontractors
  • Hardware Verification
  • Hardware Integration
  • Test, measurement, debug and verification (digital)
  • Design Assurance (Complex Electronics)
  • Technical assistance to production

Essential Skills

  • Digital electronic design
  • Electro-mechanical design including Power switching & control, Cabling and enclosure wiring
  • Technical Management of Subcontractors
  • Work package management
  • Implementation of complex designs
  • Knowledge of Processing Units
  • An excellent understanding of the fundamentals of High speed digital design
  • A working knowledge of Microprocessors, programmable devices, DSP, FPGA, memory
  • Knowledge of PCB design constraints
  • Cadence Design Entry HDL for schematic capture
  • Knowledge of the relevant markets: defence, security and aerospace
  • Working in and or / leading small development teams

Desirable

  • Knowledge of Firmware design, simulation & test
  • A working knowledge of Signal Integrity Analysis
  • Design for manufacture / test / support
  • Knowledge of Agile techniques / Lean Engineering
  • Appreciation of the fundamentals of analogue, RF, electro-mechanical and mechanical engineering
  • Knowledge of DO-254 Design Assurance Guidance for Airborne Electronic Hardware

Please note, due to the sensitive nature of the project involved all applicants must be capable of gaining a UK MOD Security Clearance to SC level.

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