PCB Design Team Lead
4 days ago
Luton
You will be an experienced hands-on PCB Design Engineer who has designed products for manufacture, accustomed to working to deadlines and able to communicate with customers in an eloquent and professional manner. You will be self-managing and highly motivated with a methodical, analytical approach and a willingness to work to existing design ethics and style. Essential skills and experience: • Layout planning and progression, • Layout quotations & negotiation, • Layout team workload coordination and planning, • CID or CID+ Certified, • Customer contact & technical consultation, • Contract negotiation and management, • Liaison with CAD Vendors and IT Interaction, • Layout contractor management and overseeing, • Contractor resource identification and engagement, • Develop PCB designs supporting both new and maintaining current products, • Creating complete design packages, to include all PCB design data, • Read, understand, and interpret engineering drawings & electronic circuit symbols, • Create single image and panelised designs reflecting in-house manufacturing rules, • Review and check design data to ensure production standards are maintained, • Working confidently and liaising with PCB and project design team members, • Provide efficient placement and routing analysis for design consideration, • Be able to work to deadlines and produce work of high quality, • Degree level qualified with an electronics engineering discipline or equivalent, • Proven experience of at least one of the following, • Altium Designer, • Cadence Orcad/Allegro, • Siemens PADS, • Experience of designing with high-speed digital design, analogue or complex circuits, including fine pitch components (BGA) and high pin count devices, • Experience of working within an engineering design environment, • Ability to work to predefined timescales and deadlines, • Understanding electronic design documentation (schematic and layout definitions), • Familiarity of PCB fabrication and assembly processes, • Understanding of Design for Manufacture / Test (DFM, DFT), • PC literate and familiar with Microsoft office Desirable skills and experience: • Experience of Product Data Management (PDM) systems, • Experience of electronic circuits and components, • PCB routing for impedance control, power planes and signal integrity, • Experience of Signal Integrity Analysis, • Experience of Power Integrity Analysis, • Experience of Conductive Thermal Analysis, • Experience of EMC requirements for PCB design, • Knowledge of UL, FCC, and CE certification, • Knowledge and ability to work to IPC & ECSS standards, • Keeping up to date with design tools and methods, • Focussed and self-motivated, • The ability to understand, review, and develop processes to enhance and support PCB design role