Principal Electronics Engineer

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

12/7/2024

Furthermore, here at FFE we value our employees giving them the freedom to be creative and innovative. Having a great team spirt and people that are proud to work for a company that saves lives, our teams see the direct impact of their efforts in the daily operations.

Principal Electronics Engineer

Position: Principal Electronics Engineer

Functional Area: Technical 80% Management 20%

Location: Cambridge area/Hitchin, UK

Salary: 60-70K with extensive benefits, bonus and generous Halma Pension plan.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Hands-on application of your electronics engineering expertise – lead by example.
• Act as the main initial point of contact across FFE for electronics.
• Lead the planning and refinement of work plans for your team.
• Oversee delivery of planned work from your team and help resolve issues therein.
• Report into the business on Electronics Team plans and progress & identify opportunities for your team to help others.
• Owner of Electronics Team line management, mentoring, coaching, development (objectives, skills matrix, training plan & budget), and recruitment.
• Owner of working relationships with third-party suppliers (e.g. EMC test houses, PCBA design agencies, etc.) - people acting as a logical extension to your team capacity.
• Act as a Design Authority for FFE’s electronics.
• Ensure working practices, procedures, processes for your domain are well documented and adhered to.
• Own the budget, acquisition & management/maintenance of tools & systems related to your team/domain (e.g. Altium, scopes, etc.).
  
  

Ensure you and your team keep an eye on relevant external trends and opportunities (sister companies, customers, trade shows/associations, technologies, etc.).

Skills & Experience

• Highly experienced developing electronic products.
• Proficient with Altium 365 and similar tools.
• Track record of delivering high quality designs, especially in a regulated environment.
• Understanding of up-to-date industry best practices.
• Able to line manage, lead and coach other team members to improve engineering practices.
• Contribute relevant electronic engineering knowledge.
• Solid technical authoring ability.
• Experience delivering FEMAs and MTBFs.
• Exposure to managing electronics supplier/purchasing relationships.
• Confident using modern collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence and MS Teams.
  
  

Proficient in Microsoft Office.

Behaviours

• Lead by example.
• Collaborative, empowering, optimistic, and motivational.
• Clear, open, and direct – focus on goals.
• Principled, composed, and emotionally restrained.
• Flexible and considerate of impact of changes.
  
  

Organised and empirical – decisions are data driven.

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