Technical Specialist – Power Electronics

Are you passionate about engineering? As a member of our Firing Units and Power Electronics team, this is a fantastic opportunity to play an integral role in delivering our products.

Salary
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Up to £57,000 depending on experience

Location
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Stevenage (We may be able to offer a relocation package for this role)

Dynamic (hybrid) working
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Typically, 3 days per week on site. Where possible, we will seek to accommodate a blended approach to on-site and remote working.

Security Clearance
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British Citizen

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

• Company bonus
  :
  Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
• Pension
  : maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
• Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave
  -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities
  :
  Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more
• Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.

• Being a first point of contact for advice and support on technical and process related queries, and providing more formal support options.
• Work on process improvement, where opportunities are identified, and promote awareness of relevant company process across the team.
• Actively track the project activities of each Tech Lead, through regular catch ups and/or reviewing the reporting materials that they generate to their project design authority.
• Periodically review each Tech Lead's L4 project plans.
• With knowledge of each Tech Lead's project activities and plans, provide pro-active guidance and course correction, where potential issues are identified, rather than waiting to be approached when issues arise.
• Support project gate reviews by advising on review pack contents and potentially holding pre-review before the actual gate review takes place.
• To be an escalation route to support realistic cost affective technical delivery solutions (Stakeholders being Head of Actuators (Joe);
  Equipment EDA (multiple), Head of Equipment Delivery (Ashvin)).
• Tailor the level of support and involvement as appropriate, based on the needs of each individual team Tech lead.
• Investigate all potential opportunities of offloading are met for each project.
• Provide technical input to Bids in support of Actuator Cof Ex new business.

• Strong power electronics background, ideally with previous design experience of PMSM control systems (could be from Automotive Traction or Defence).
• Experience with mixed analogue & digital control electronics design, some specifics include:
  Power Inverters (discrete gate drives & 3 phase bridge power stage) / DC-DC converters / Digital Position Encoders / Analogue Position Sensors / Current Sensors & Signal Conditioning / Discrete Control Logic.
• Experience in the full product development life cycle experience.
• Experience with Design for Test & Design for Manufacture.
• Experience with designing for EMC & ENV compliance.
• Experience of design for high safety integrity (Design Assurance Level / Safety Integrity Level).
• At least an appreciation for Systems Engineering, System Architecture Design, Thermal Management techniques, Reliability.