Power Electronics Senior Engineer

**Job Title**: Power Electronics Senior Engineer
**Location**: Nottingham
**Role**: Permanent
**Salary**: Negotiable
**Your new company**
Our client Supports its operations with design and manufacturing facilities and offices in the UK, Europe, North America and Asia.
**Your new job**
As a Senior Engineer you will be responsible for all aspects of electrical design, development and testing of power converters and power management products along with new power electronics technologies, aligned with the company's strategy in support of futuremore electric and all electric aircraft platforms. A hybrid role, nominally based at from their customers site in Nottingham.
**Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Technical ownership of development of allocated power conversion and power management products and technologies
- Review customer specifications to establish feasibility and possible conceptual solutions.
- Identification and development of new technologies to improve products
- Determine optimal power converter topologies and product overall electrical design, including product compliance with electrical requirements, including electrical environmental requirements such as EMI.
- Develop, review and approve the electrical sections of proposals, including time/cost estimation of tasks and hardware.
- Ownership of compliance matrix responses relating to electrical and electromagnetic compatibility in the final product
- Develop and maintain mathematical models and simulations of electrical power converters
- Write, review and approve simulation output reports and schematic drawings
- Create, review and approve electrical design schematics and PCB layout
- Prepare and lead design reviews of electrical aspects of products, including the creation of clear and concise data packs/presentations
- Liaison with internal functions and suppliers in purchase of materials & components required on projects
- Technical ownership of product integrity and performance. Develop, review and approve test plans and procedures for design assurance testing and qualification testing.
- Support and lead electrical testing during development process
- Review and interpret test results
- Lead investigations relating to power product failures; collecting, analysing, and summarizing information and trends associated with any such failures where necessary.
- Involvement in safety analysis tasks such as FMEA and FMECA
- Continued personal, professional and technical development to maintain up-to date knowledge in the domain
- Recording and analysis of product failures/faults
- Coaching and mentoring of junior staff
- Protect our product and company reputation by complying with all relevant regulations and standards
- Comply with all HSE requirements related to the role and work towards a zero harm culture

**Competency Requirements**
- Able to qualify for UK security clearance
- Capable of developing as a leader as well as developing others to achieve improved levels of performance
- Significant power converter and / or power management design experience
- Strong knowledge of multiple topologies and understanding of selection criteria
- Requirements Analysis
- Simulation Modelling Experience (Preferred; Spice based)
- Schematic Capture Experience (Preferred; Altium)
- PCB- design experience (Preferred; Altium)
- Development Testing Experience
- Awareness of industry appropriate design standards

**Skills you need to succeed**
- Minimum: Degree in Electrical and/or Electronic Engineering
- Prefer: Masters or PhD in power electronics or similar
- Significant, relevant industry experience
- Qualification of aerospace Line Replaceable Units
- Production level aerospace PCB design experience (Preferred; Altium)
- Worked on grant funding R&D projects
- Programming of FPGAs
- Familiarity with safety critical software development
- Experience of DO-254, DO-160, Mil-STD-810, Mil-HDBK-217
- Understanding of production processes used in power electronics
- Does the right thing, particularly with respect to safety and well-being
- Pro-active problem solver - see it, fix it

**What this opportunity will do for you**
This is a fantastic opportunity to work for a global leader in Electronics who also offer the following employee benefits.
- 25 days holiday + statutory bank holidays Active Social Club
- Birthday brunch in the month of your birthday
- Contributory pension scheme
- Company share-save scheme (eligible after a qualifying period)
- Company sick pay scheme (eligible after a qualifying period)
- Profit Related Incentive bonus (eligible after a qualifying period)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Life Assurance benefit
- Medical Cover
- Free sanitary products
- Reward Gateway
- Enhanced Maternity Pay
- Enhanced paid time off to attend Medical Appointments
- Regular Wellbeing activities and Events

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