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Project Design Engineer

Cheltenham
3 weeks ago
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Are you an Electronics Design Engineer with Project Experience?

Are you looking for a new challenge?

Belcan has a great opportunity for an Electronics Project Design Engineer to join our Cheltenham team, on a permanent basis. You will be working on small to medium sized projects from concept to successful completion. These projects will vary from full industrial control installations to complex system test facilities, automatic test equipment, test fixtures and electro-mechanical systems.

As an Electronics Project Design Engineer on board with Belcan you will be responsible for a wide range of Electronic Design and compliance tasks (FPGA, Analogue & digital design). Additionally, providing support designing PCB's (Schematic capture, Layout, FMEA/Component rating analysis).

Essential Skills:

Experience in CAD design, SolidWorks, or similar.
The ability to design circuit boards and test circuits from first principles.
Understanding of configuration controls & PLM tools. Engineering data management (dwgs/models/gerbers).
Experience in the use of Altium, VHDL or similar, Libero - Microsemi.
Previous Project Management experience.

Perks of being a Belcan employee!

You will be working with a great company, providing your expertise working directly from our clients newly built sites. As a Belcan employee you will be entitled to all Belcan's benefits. This includes life assurance, great holiday allowance including a long Christmas break, shopping vouchers, food and drink discounts and access to our salary sacrifice scheme's.

About Us
Belcan, a Cognizant company, is a global force in technical services and engineering consultancy. Our legacy is built on delivering high-quality outputs and our unwavering commitment to developing the next generation of technical consultants and specialist engineers. Our expertise is vast, spanning across various engineering industries including aerospace, defence, marine, nuclear, automotive, and cyber security.

This vacancy is being advertised by Belcan

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