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Senior Project Engineer (091ne) vacancy in Middlesex ()

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Location: Middlesex
Salary: Negotiable (commensurate with experience)
Vacancy type: Permanent
Sectors: Aviation, Engineering, General, IT/Telecoms, Senior Appointments
Placed by: Ex-Mil Recruitment
Our Client is seeking a Senior Project Engineer to join their Company.
The Company manufactures highly complex, high performance, high power RF amplifiers and transmitters. These products often incorporate microwave travelling wave tubes (TWT’s) and high voltage switch-mode power supplies to provide the electrode bias and grid control. Project Engineers are responsible for developing the overall system concept in consultation with the electrical and mechanical design specialist engineers. This will require a holistic view of the products based on an in depth technical understanding of each functional element. The complex nature of our products will require that Project Engineers are multi-disciplinary; having an in-depth understanding of analogue and digital electronics, power supplies, transformers, high voltage insulation, safety requirements, thermal and EMC management techniques

Main Duties
• Work with the specialist engineers to develop product and system design concepts to support both bid proposals and the initial concept development phases
• Define both customer and internal interfaces and produce system level diagrams and wiring schedules
• Maintain project technical risk register and work closely with the design engineer and programme manager to implement agreed mitigating activities
• Work closely with specialist engineers to implement and validate product thermal solutions
• Produce production test, design validation and qualification test plans, procedures and reports
• Work with the test equipment engineers to define, and implement special test equipment
• Work closely with specialist suppliers to ensure components are right first time
• To investigate and resolve new product test failures and support production with root cause investigations
• Prepare and deliver presentations for both internal and customer product design reviews
• Produce investigation, validation and evaluation reports
• To review product test failure data and field return data to ensure potential reliability issues are resolved at the earliest opportunity and lessons incorporated into future design reviews
• To support and liaise with the design and production engineering teams
• Provide training to test engineers and assemblers as required
• Develop and maintain metrics and plan improvements to continually improve production yields
• To maintain an Engineers daybook to allow visibility of activities
• Ensure test processes meet both customer and Company requirements
• To work with customers and suppliers to resolve technical issues
• To ensure compliance with Company design, development and manufacturing quality procedures
• To undertake any other task, which may reasonably be requested
• To comply with the Company Policy on Health & Safety

Qualifications
• HND or BSc

Essentials
• Knowledge of military or aerospace test processes and standards.
• Great team player with good communication skills
Desirables
• Knowledge of high voltage insulation systems, electronic packaging and thermal design for high power electronic equipment.
• Familiar with analogue circuits especially switch mode PSUs as well as high power RF Test methods and equipment.

Because of the nature of the work undertaken at my clients\' site, this post is required to meet special nationality rules and therefore are only open to British Citizens. All selected candidates will be required to undergo security clearance. The MoD rules state that in order to have access to this level of information, candidates \"must be British as defined in the British Nationality Act 1981\"
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