Development Engineer - Powertrain - Cirencester (KYU-104822)

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Development Engineer - Powertrain
Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England

The Role

You will be joining a motivated and capable design team that is responsible for the product design from capturing requirements with customers through the design and validation tasks to ensuring the product enters volume manufacturing as a high quality highly reliable safe product. This team has many key design skills covering areas from Microprocessors (16 and 32 bit), Power Supplies, Power Filtering and Switching, Actuator Drive Design to analogue design plus EMC. We are looking for willing and keen people to come join us in a broad design and development role, where analogue and power circuit design and development skills are used and can be developed further, and you can take a key role in designing the product.
What you ll do

As part of this team, you will develop your expertise in:

Electronic Circuit Design: Creation of new electronic circuit designs, covering a wide range of digital and analogue technologies, for high volume, safety critical automotive control systems. Good understanding of electronic components and manufacturing assembly techniques and processes
Electronic Circuit Analysis: Tolerancing and worse case using various simulation tools (eg. Saber, Spice) and analysis tools (eg. Excel, Mathcad). Also FMEA and Reliability analysis.
Generation of Requirements and Test Documents: Generating documentation in support of TRW procedures and engineering design and development activities.
Verification and Test: Generate test plans and conduct test/verification programmes to ensure designs are fit for purpose and conform to design requirements and match the design analysis.
Working with customers both inside and outside of the TRW organisation to define and develop the product
What we are looking for

Essential:
Educated to degree level (in a relevant subject)
An aptitude in analogue and power electronics design
Willingness to push existing boundaries and learn/develop new skills
Self motivated and able to work with or without direct supervision
Excellent communication skills, particularly reporting

Desirable:
Member of relevant professional body (e.g. IET)
Willing to travel
Automotive system and design experience (e.g. requirements, processes and tools)
Foreign language abilities (Customers in Sweden, Germany, France and Japan

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.