Senior Hardware Design Engineer

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At Park Signalling we utilise our specialist engineering skills and knowledge to deliver products and services including consultancy and projects. Listening to the needs of the industry, we solve customers' problems, big or small, to design and deliver practical solutions that include operational maintenance and life extension of critical equipment.

We are excited to be recruiting for a Senior Hardware Design Engineer to help us to successfully deliver projects and production orders. As a Senior Hardware Engineer at Park Signalling, the solutions you and the team create will support our railway products and meet our high reliability and safety targets for years to come. You will have an opportunity to work in many areas of the systems lifecycle demonstrating your capability in many new and exciting projects. You will be responsible for leading the design, development, review and testing of new electronic hardware. You will be expected to mentor and develop others as well as show an awareness of business operations in supporting the products you produce as well as existing solutions.

Key roles and responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:

• Escalate to the Senior Management any problems that may affect the achievement of KPIs (e.g., delivery, cost, productivity, quality) and implement corrective actions.
• Mentor and developing the team, teaching them new skills and best practice
• Take the lead in the design and critical review of electronic hardware (schematics, PCBs, drawings etc.) using appropriate CAE tools to ensure it complies with specified requirements.
• Demonstrate an understanding of analogue and digital applications of common circuit components.
• Demonstrate the ability to provide solutions to Hardware related challenges, test solutions, option selection, and requirements analysis.
• Produce, critically appraise and test circuits both in theory and practice as part of a test solution and development process.
• Apply analysis methods such as FMEA, FMECA, Hazard, Risk or Kepner-Tregoe.
• Review design specifications and plans to support development and testing including functional testing and compliance such as EMC and Environmental.
• Support the planning of experiments in order to evaluate complex systems.
• Estimate the workload required to deliver solutions to technical problems.
• Communicate effectively, in speech and writing.
• Build effective working relationships with the team and with other key stakeholders based on mutual trust and respect that ensure the resolution of problems locally.
• Help create a positive, enthusiastic, supportive working environment.

Candidates will be educated to degree level in an Electrical Engineering related subject and will be expected to be able to describe and discuss their prior experience. Candidates will be expected to be able to describe and discuss their prior experience, be effective communicators, and demonstrate knowledge and understanding of what they have previously done. Evidence of personal and professional development, adult education, or vocational training in the field of Electronic Engineering or Automation is also required.

The following skills qualifications are desirable for the role but not essential:

• Application of Reliability, Availability and Maintainability targets in hardware design.
• Evidence of working toward Standard Operating Processes and a Quality Management System.
• Application of Railway specific Standards e.g. EMC, Environmental, EN50126, EN 50129.
• Demonstrable CEng level competency.
• Knowledge of the Railway and its operations.
• Able to work with abstractions and Strong refactoring ability (breaking functions into smaller parts)