Senior Electronics Design Engineer

Job Title: Senior Electronics Design Engineer
Department: Engineering
Reporting to: Electronics Engineering Manager
Responsible for: This role does not have any direct reports
Band: C

Scope of the Role

As a Senior Electronics Design Engineer, you will support and lead the Engineering team with new product development for battery and charging solutions This role will require you to take careful and methodical attitude and approach to new product development following the ABT’s internal processes and procedures. The post-holder must be confident working and leading a team of Engineers via planning for milestones and deadlines, with ongoing reviews and goal setting. 

Main Duties and Responsibilities

The below list is not exhaustive, but the main duties and responsibilities will be:

• PCB design, schematic capture and layout using Altium Designer.
• Design and development of electronics related to battery packs: battery management and protection circuits; charging circuits and power supplies; communications and other ‘smart’ battery features.
• Supporting new product development by developing products with design for manufacture, test and quality built in.
• Creating bills of materials and selecting appropriate components to meet customer requirements.
• Working and leading a multi-discipline team to ensure projects are delivered on time, costed appropriately, and designed to a high standard.
• Testing battery cell packs and new products, evaluating performance and safety circuits and creating reports for customer and internal use.
• Contributing to embedded solutions to support battery management, charging systems and digital communications.

Knowledge, Skills, and Behaviours

The successful candidate will possess a range of the following knowledge, skills, and behaviours:

• Ideally electronics engineering degree or equivalent experience.
• Ideally with 3-5 years’ design experience within a relevant industry. All round electronic design skills including design and troubleshooting. PCB design experience is essential.
• Self-motivation with a high degree of creativity and initiative.
• Experience and ability to lead a team of design engineers, review, and plan workloads to match project milestones and deadlines.
• Lateral thinking with the ability to provide realistic and innovative design solutions.
• Experience with microprocessors/microcontrollers (PIC)
• Ideally with previous project management experience in a new product development life cycle
• Organised, motivated and enthusiastic.
• Keeps priorities under review, plans and works flexibly to cope with change in circumstances and demands.

Benefits

• Salary
  • £50-55k
• Bonus Scheme
  • £5k
• Pension Scheme
  • 4% Employer
  • 5% Employee
• Holiday
  • 25 days + bank holidays

To apply please email your CV & cover letter to careers@alexenergy.co.uk

Important Notice to Recruitment Agencies

Alexander Battery Technologies (ABT) is committed to sourcing candidates directly and, as such it does not accept speculative CVs from agencies.

ABT only pays agency fees where it has a signed agreement in place and an agency has been instructed by a member of ABT’s HR Department.

All speculative CVs shall be considered a ‘gift’ to ABT.

ABT does not pay agency fees of any nature where speculative and/or unsolicited CVs are submitted to either ABT or any of its employees.

ABT reserve the right to subsequently contact the candidate to whom any speculative CV relates, initiates discussions and/or appoints that candidate to a position (whether directly or through another agency) without payment of any agency fee whatsoever.

Submission of any unsolicited CV’s and/or proposals to ABT by an agency will be deemed evidence of full unlimited acceptance of this agency policy to the exclusion of any terms or conditions which may be put forward by that agency at any time.