Senior Electronic Component Engineer

Role Definition:

Design, development and testing of electronic control modules (ECM/ECU) for use within machines and engine systems.

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing compliance with functional and environmental requirements, development processes, and regulations for ECM/ECUs.
• Development of product requirements, analysis and simulation, electronic component selection, schematic/layout review, and platform verification and validation.
• Collaboration with various levels of software as well as machine and engine systems teams to ensure the platform integrates into multiple applications.
• Managing and negotiating with ECM/ECU vendors for the development of systems and components.
• Investigating and troubleshooting all technical issues related to ECM/ECUs during development and through the production lifecycle.
• Mentoring technicians and engineers in the development of electrical and electronic systems and components.
• Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Electrical, Electronics curriculum.

Degree Requirement:

Bachelor's degree in engineering from Tier 1 College and University. Master's degree in Engineering will be a plus.

Skill Descriptors:

Effective Communications:

Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
• Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
• Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
• Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
• Maintains focus on the topic at hand.

Technical Excellence:

Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.
• Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.
• Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.
• Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
• Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
• Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.

Project Management:

Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Provides input for Gantt or PERT charts or their equivalent to track project progress and status.
• Under guidance, plans and estimates simple projects.
• Assists in detailed project plans including cost, schedule, and resource requirements.
• Obtains information from stakeholders during the planning stage of a project.
• Produces standard project status reports.

Electronics Engineering - HTH:

Knowledge of electronics engineering; ability to design, test and manufacture electronic circuits, components and devices.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Trains others on designing complex integrated circuits.
• Anticipates the challenges and opportunities associated with creating printed circuit boards.
• Interprets alternative interfaces between hardware and software and associated requirements and considerations.
• Advises on matching methodology, materials and tools to the electronic product that is being built.
• Consults on engineering multiple electronic circuits, components or devices.
• Evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of analog and digital circuits.

Product Design - HTH:

Knowledge of and the ability to utilize design tools (e.g. CAD) to convert customer and market requirements into a product design.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Monitors each phase of the design procedure to ensure overall operation meets standards.
• Trains others on major processes of product design; directs the conception of each component.
• Advises others on the development of multiple products and their architectures.
• Delivers improvement plans to senior management and compares the outcome of the design against the architecture.
• Evaluates feedback from customers and consults on functional weaknesses.
• Controls design and development costs of a proposed product through effective resource coordination.

Reliability Management - HTH:

Knowledge of reliability management; ability to utilize various tools, techniques, methodologies and metrics to meet and manage hardware product performance and reliability objectives.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Selects appropriate tools and methods to ensure reliability expectations in hardware products.
• Participates in product reliability and quality assurance standard processes to meet process demands.
• Conducts performance and reliability testing for a specific hardware product or product group.
• Implements reliability activities and tasks for product development and maintenance plans.
• Analyzes common hardware reliability failures; provides corrective action plans.

Mechanical Engineering - MFG:

Knowledge of mechanical engineering processes, techniques and methods; ability to design and implement machines and other mechanical devices that safely realize a desired objective or invention.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Works with basic, routine components of the mechanical engineering discipline in manufacturing.
• Performs basic installation, testing, maintenance and repairs for machines, engines and other equipment.
• Uses software to draft drawings or writes specifications for specific mechanical engineering projects.
• Assists senior staff to resolve unusual mechanical problems; recommends ideas.
• Follows relevant standards, policies and practices in mechanical engineering operations; reports violations.

Supplier Management - MFG:

Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components; ability to apply related knowledge, experience and skills into real practice.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Follows procedures in carrying out routine supplier management tasks.
• Uses electronic systems or tools to record/retrieve supplier information and carry out transactions with suppliers.
• Resolves routine supplier issues; escalates non-routine issues up chain of command.
• Researches alternative vendors or suppliers; participates in supplier selection.
• Works with suppliers to ensure that purchases meet delivery date and quality specifications.

Additional information:

This job requires 5 working days from office.