Principal Electronics Engineer

5 days ago

United Kingdom Apollo Americ Full time
Principal Electronics Engineer

Location: Cambridge area/Hitchin, UK

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

Position: Principal Electronics Engineer

Functional Area: Technical 80% Management 20%

Furthermore, here at FFE we value our employees giving them the freedom to be creative and innovative. Having a great team spirit 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.

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 the impact of changes.
  • Organised and empirical – decisions are data driven.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us

A little bit about FFE

How many lives have you saved today? FFE Ltd is a specialist fire detector manufacturer and is one of the world's largest manufacturers of optical beam smoke detectors and flame detectors. FFE is part of the Halma plc group, a UK based global FTSE 100 company. Fireray beam detectors offer a cost-effective method of protecting wide areas against fire. Examples include museums, warehouses, atria, sports stadiums, gyms, theatres, etc. Talentum flame detectors detect across a wide spectrum making it an obvious choice for most flame detection applications. FFE aviation extinguishers are present on over half the world’s commercial flights.

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