Radio Frequency Engineer

Job Title: Radio Frequency Engineer

Salary: up to £50,000 per annum dependent upon experience

Location: Cowes, Isle of Wight

We currently have a vacancy to join one of the world’s leading, global defence, security and aerospace companies as a RF Engineer. The role will be based in Cowes on the Isle of Wight and requires the post holder to be on site 3 -4 days per week. Part time and accruing hours are available as well as flexible working hours.

They work at the cutting edge of technology, creating more than 100 new inventions every year for customers in over 100 countries.

The Naval Radar team provides Radar products and support services to a diverse range of customers worldwide. This role will provide engineering support as part of a team delivering capability upgrades to the Royal Navy over the next 10 years. You will have the opportunity to develop and enhance your skills and knowledge, with the potential to lead into more senior positions within a global business.

Put yourself into a dynamic RF Engineer role at the forefront of real world demands in the defence industry. Alongside ensuring operational excellence for their existing products, there will be the opportunity to develop next generation radar products to counter emerging threats and contribution to our strategy for new technology. Your new day-to-day will be exciting and diverse by applying the principles of Engineering across the entire engineering development lifecycle as you join in developing radar systems used by those who serve and protect us.

The site in Cowes is an easily accessible commute from Southampton with a regular foot passenger ferry and a company shuttle service from the ferry terminal to site.

Main Responsibilities:

• Support RF circuit design including component selection, simulation, schematic capture and preparing guidance for PCB design teams
  
  
• Support electromagnetic simulation and analysis
  
  
• Contribute to design verification using a combination of simulation, analysis, and test techniques
  
  
• Contribute to design documentation and technical reports
  
  
• Support design evaluation and testing in our new engineering lab
  
  Benefits:
  
  
• Relocation package available
  
  
• Enhanced Pension scheme- up to 14% combined
  
  
• Flexible working pattern including working from home/ flexible start and finish times
  
  
• 25 holiday days plus bank holidays- 26 days after 5 years’ service/ 27 days after 10 years’ service
  
  
• Shared Incentive Plan
  
  
• Employee Assistance Programme
  
  
• Cycle to Work Scheme
  
  
• Life Assurance
  
  
• Discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits
  
  
• Green car scheme
  
  
• Private health plans
  
  About You:
  
  
• A degree, HNC, or HND in Electronic Engineering or strongly related subject/industrial experience.
  
  
• An appetite for learning business approaches and procedures including standards for governance and compliance
  
  You must be eligible to apply for SC clearance and, therefore, must hold a British passport and have lived and worked in the UK for the past 5 years
  
  About Aeropeople:
  
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