Development Engineer - Terry Parris Associates Ltd : Job Details

Job Title: Development Engineer Location: Pulborough Employment Type: Permanent Salary: £40KMain objectives:The development of our power conversion products and associated equipment. The Development Engineer will be qualified in a relevant discipline and experience, will have the skills to develop power supply designs and will be keen to gain design experience and knowledge.Key responsibilities:

• Liaise with engineers and review customer specifications to understand required unit performance.
• Develop and modify our conversion products and associated equipment to meet agreed specifications.
• Design and build breadboards and prototypes to investigate/research new design techniques (higher stability, lower noise, faster polarity reversing) where required.
• Accurately document designs to enable full manufacturing packages to be created or amended.
• Confirm that developed designs meet their requirements by test and/or simulation and calculation.
• Meet agreed time-scales for a task or project.
• Ensure products are compliant to all current legal and regulatory requirements avoiding the use of components, materials or substances they identify as presenting a threat to the environment.
• Products will optimise life cycle duration and if practical be repairable, energy efficient and have no undue environmental impact.
• Assume ownership of the assigned projects from conception to completion and give continued support while in service.
• Responsibility for adhering to the Company’s ISO 9001 Quality, ISO14001 Environmental and Health and Safety management systems and contributing towards continuous improvement.

Skills, knowledge and experience:

• HNC, HND, degree or equivalent with relevant experience.
• Some experience in power supply development, preferably with experience of high voltage (but not essential), analogue, digital and architecture system design.
• Experience of power supply performance measuring and environmental testing.
• Knowledge of up-to-date components, technology and manufacturing techniques.
• Knowledge of current regulations and procedures and knowledge of how they affect design.
• Understanding of constraints of PCB layout and mechanical packaging.
• Ability to follow formal design procedures and methodologies in accordance with ISO 9001.
• Ability to work under pressure to demanding timescales.
• Schematic Capture using CADSTAR desirable.
• Proficient in MS Office.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills, self-motivated, able to work with minimum supervision.

TPA are a specialist recruitment agency recruiting on behalf of our client.If you think you are a close fit for this position, please do apply and we will also register you for any upcoming positions that may be suitable.