Job Description – Senior Electronic Hardware Design Engineer
Company Profile
The Magstim Company Ltd is a Welsh company engaged in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of medical and research devices within the neurological and surgical fields of medicine and research, enabling users of our equipment to assess, protect and improve the functioning of the nervous system in various applications.
Products made by the Company
- Electronic Medical Equipment
- Magnetic Nerve Stimulators
- Nerve Monitoring Equipment
Purpose and Scope
- This position is seen as key role within Magstim. The position holds operational influence and performance will directly affect the success of the company.
- The job holder will need good communication skills to work effectively with engineering, production and quality departments and have the maturity to participate in the management team.
Education
- Qualification - Degree Level or equivalent
- Subject - Electrical Engineering / Electronics
Employment experience
- To have held a design engineer position for at least 3 years post qualification during which some staff supervisory experience will have been gained.
Technical Skills
Essential:
Documented competence and successful implementation of work in the following areas:
- Analogue circuit design (0 to 20MHz, but not RF). The individual will have designed analogue circuits with requirements which required first-rate subject knowledge. The ideal candidate will have had some experience with high power electronics up to 3kW
- An understanding of PCB layout requirements
- Capable of creating designs able to meet electromagnetic compatibility requirements
- Experienced in design for manufacturing and value engineering
- Able to work within constraints of cost and time targets
- Good technical multidisciplinary engineering skills with an understanding of the following areas: Mechanical Engineering, Plastics, Heat Transfer
- Mathematical background with the capability of applying this to development and design challenges
Practical experience of the following highly desirable:
- Embedded microcontrollers and interfacing of these to analogue and digital circuits
- State machine implementation within small programmable logic devices
- Failure Mode Effect Analysis of electronic circuit design
- Working with external test houses, for example on – EMC or safety testing
- Product verification
- Risk management and control methods
- Industrial experience of Product lifecycle
- Designing electronics for medical application i.e familiarity with the relevant standards and requirements.
Desirable: Will have worked on projects where the understanding of the following was necessary;
- System integration.
- Programming.
- Embedded software architecture.
- C and Machine Code.
- PC development systems such as Visual Basic.
- New product introduction techniques
- Generation of verification procedures and test reports
Personal Attributes
- A team player with good communication skills
- Enthusiastic and with a desire to develop their skills and knowledge
- Ability to use initiative and motivate others.
- A practical approach to problem solving
- The ability to analyse and understand problems in order to identify the principal issues involved
- Mathematical background with the capability of applying this to development and design challenges
- Appreciates the importance of meeting targets and agreed time schedules
- Innovative and creative thinker
Accountability and Responsibilities
- The job holder will directly report to his or her Line Manager and there are no direct reports at this stage
If you would like to discuss this opportunity further then please contact Stefanie Rees.
Application forms can be downloaded from the link below.
