High Voltage Electronic Engineer

What will you be doing?

As a High Voltage Electronic Engineer, you will join our team in Chelmsford to support our activities within the Defence sector.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Designing circuits and sub-systems to meet customer requirements, ensuring a reliable, manufacturable product that aligns with cost targets.
• Verify circuit and system designs through design simulations, practical testing, and relevant environmental testing.
• Provide prompt, precise, and technically proficient solutions to resolve issues during development, production, and in-service stages.
• Ensure design compliance with regulatory, legislative, environmental, and safety standards.
• Oversees updates to product build standards after launch, driven by continuous improvement, obsolescence, or changes in legislation or regulation.
• Identifies intellectual property and patent issues and opportunities, ensuring they are evaluated and drives the submission of claims as needed.
• Conduct regular reviews of market trends and technological advancements to identify opportunities for new products and upgrades.
• Collaborate with business leadership to develop these opportunities into future projects as appropriate.

Who are we looking for?

• A team player, being able to manage and work with various stakeholders and departments.
• An excellent communicator at all levels with a strong drive to develop and grow within the organisation.

You are...

• Passionate about engineering
• result-oriented
• proactive

Requirements

Experience, skills and qualifications required:

• A Bachelor's or Master Degree in Electronic Engineering or similar.
• Prior experience in designing power electronic systems, such as Printed Circuit Boards (PCB), Switch Mode Power Supply (PSU), High-frequency digital and analogue circuits and similar
• Skilled in designing electronic systems with a focus on reliability and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF).
• Experienced in analysing design failure mechanisms using DfMEA and FMECA methodologies.
• Has demonstrated a clear understanding of electrical safety requirements and models safe working practices.
• Knowledge of PCB layout tools, manufacturing techniques, as well as experience with schematic capture.
• Ability to achieve Security Clearance.

Security Clearance:

• Candidates must have lived in the UK for at least 5 years with no gaps of 3+ consecutive months to be eligible for security clearance.

Additional information

Why join us?

We foster a community of dually talented individuals who are both entrepreneurs and technology specialists. Our teams embody the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship, enabling us to develop solutions most efficiently.

Our commitment to sustainable growth is unwavering, and we continuously strive for accelerated transformation and continuous improvement. Through ALTEN labs, mentoring programs, internal universities, and more, we are always pushing boundaries and embracing new possibilities.

We offer incredible opportunities to join inspiring projects in the most innovative companies.

We prioritise your career development with personalised support plans tailored to your own aspirations. We're here to empower you and help you reach your full potential.

Join our passionate team and start building tomorrow, today!

In short you get:

• A personalised career path and a rewarding management style
• A chance to work on the most exciting engineering projects and technologies along with Premium Customers
• A huge diversity of engineering projects and industries
• A competitive salary
• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension Scheme
• Cycle-to-work Scheme among many additional benefits
• Social atmosphere, regular gatherings, and team buildings
• Flexible way of working (role dependent)