Senior Electronics Design Engineer
Play a pivotal role in designing the electronics behind safety-critical nuclear systems where precision and reliability truly matter! As a Senior Electronics Design Engineer with our Wimborne Curtiss Wright facility, you’ll be part of a highly skilled team delivering analogue, digital, and computer-based safety systems, contributing across the full lifecycle from requirements capture and compliance-driven design to documentation, analysis, and ongoing system support. Working in a highly regulated environment, you’ll apply rigorous engineering principles with a strong emphasis on classical analysis and modelling of analogue instrumentation front-ends, helping ensure the performance, integrity, and safety of complex systems and products.
Location: Wimborne, UK
Your Challenge:
Produce and peer review technical reports, drawings and designs for safety, functionality and compliance with standards and statutory requirements
Provide a technical lead in specified areas for the team and the company as a whole
Establish customer solutions and support discussions of the proposed solution(s) with customer representatives to agree the optimum outcome in terms of cost, timescale and ease of implementation
Detailed analysis of existing systems to establish requirements for replacement or refurbishment.
Provide specific technical support to project managers and / or team leaders for projects
Liaison with suppliers regarding supply and support of third-party equipment
Occasionally supporting the installation and commissioning of equipment on the customer’s site
Developing personal engineering capability across the safety system and instrumentation areas
Identification of opportunities for process improvement, automation and modernisation within your work
To carry out all work ethically, safely and in accordance with the relevant standards and best practice within the nuclear industry
What You Bring:
Security contractual compliance will require incumbents to be a sole British National.
Degree educated in Electronics Engineering or demonstrable industry experience in an electronics design role, including schematic design, PCB layout and mixed-mode simulation thereof (e.g. Altium)
A firm theoretical understanding and practical experience of the subtleties of analogue electronics design in instrumentation front-ends – e.g. noise, frequency response, cabling and temperature sensitivity effects; the mechanisms, analysis and modelling thereof
Exposure to and understanding of the use of the major digital electronics families and device categories
Experience of the systems engineering of complete electronic systems, including integration of PCBs into electronics racks/cabinets, and the thermal and reliability engineering aspects thereof
Use of modern instrumentation, e.g. digital mixed mode oscilloscopes and programmable instrumentation
Who We Are
Curtiss-Wright Wimborne, a Business Unit of Curtiss Wright, is a global engineering and design manufacture leader with just over six decades of experience designing for heavily regulated markets, such as nuclear, aerospace, oil and gas, and more. We develop sensors and instrumentation and control solutions for harsh environments and mission critical applications when safety and reliability matter. We focus on our customers’ success in every step of our process from sales engagement, quality, delivery, and customer service. Our customers trust us and know our commitment to safety is our top priority.
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