Senior Electronics Engineer

About the job

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package: £37,860 - £60,000 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Let us introduce the role

AWE is currently recruiting for a Senior Electronics Engineer for the Hydrodynamics Delivery Unit

This role is ideally suited to electronics engineers who enjoys hands-on working with an aptitude for fault diagnosis and problem solving with some experience leading small teams.

Working within the Hydrodynamics Delivery Unit the successful candidate will be required to monitor and manage the electronics lab, schedule, maintain and test "in use" equipment and be heavily involved with ensuring manufacture to the design specifications within a heavily regulated industry.

In addition to supporting the current "in service" hardware you will also support development, design, and field new diagnostic hardware. You will work with a variety of tools to design bespoke equipment varying from low voltage PCB's to custom high voltage enclosures to support trials.

Who are we looking for?

We do need you to have the following:

• HND or HNC with relevant experience in Electronics Engineering.
• Experience or knowledge of High Voltage and circuit design.

Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience in some of the following:

Fault finding, problem solving, repair and maintenance of electronic hardware.

• Design, build and test of new hardware.
• Experience on hardware such as data capture systems.
• Leading small teams or projects

You'll need to have the ability to work calmly and constructively in a priority changing environment and be able to manage your own workload. You will also have initiative, enthusiasm, a flexible approach, and ability to work to tight deadlines to industry standards.

Some reasons we think you'll love it here:

AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

The 'Working at AWE' page on our website is where you can find full details in the 'AWE Benefits Guide'.

Due to the classified nature of the work involved, there are limited opportunities to work from home in this role. It is anticipated that the successful candidate will spend the majority of their time working on site at AWE Aldermaston.

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