ECAD Designer; PCB Designer

Position: ECAD Designer (PCB Designer) I

Location: Parsippany, NJ

Job : -NB

# of Openings: 3

Elevate your career at Marotta Controls, a New Jersey Top Workplace three years running! Dedicated to innovation, quality and excellence, we deliver cutting edge control systems for the Aerospace & Defense industry. At Marotta, we value bold thinking and teamwork, and we empower our employees to push boundaries while delivering top-tier solutions to our customers. Our team fosters a fun, collaborative culture where creativity and technical excellence thrive!

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The ECAD Designer (PCB Designer) is responsible for creating, developing, and releasing high-quality PCB layouts and supporting documentation that meet stringent electrical, mechanical, EMC, and manufacturing requirements. This role requires deep technical expertise with OrCAD and Cadence tools, thorough understanding of IPC standards, and the ability to perform independent design work from concept through manufacturing release. The designer will collaborate closely with Electrical, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Engineering to ensure all layouts meet functional, cost, and producibility goals.

The ideal candidate brings strong experience in high-voltage/high-current designs, library management, and PCB best practices, and demonstrates strong communication and organizational skills within a dynamic engineering and production environment.

• Responsible to deliver OrCAD based PCB layouts and supporting documentation into manufacturing in accordance with customer and internal requirements.
• PCB layouts and supporting documentation according to customer and internal requirements such as designing for Electrical Functionality,
• Participate in Library Symbol/Footprint creations using IPC standards.
• Perform work assignments as a highly competent ECAD designer, requiring independent design and release effort in collaboration with other disciplines.
• Work assignments primarily involve intermediate through advanced level work, moving toward complete technical competency and mastery of the field.
• Design and development of PCB layout while adhering to electrical, mechanical, EMC, manufacturing and cost requirements.
• Support PCB layout design reviews (Electrical, EMC, Manufacturing, etc)

• 5 or more years experience in ECAD Electrical design and experience with schematic capture and circuit board layout using OrCad CIS and Cadence/OrCAD PCB Layout Pro workflow. Excellent verbal/written communication skills required for multi-faceted interactions with all levels of personnel within the organization, as well as any and all outside agents, including but not limited to; vendors, suppliers, customers. Highly computer literate, OrCAD CIS, Cadence/Orcad PCB Layout Pro, MS Office/PC expertise, and demonstrated experience with applicable systems, programs, equipment, etc.
• Familiar with best commercial practices (including IPC class II & III) for circuit board design and manufacturing.
• Knowledge of generating and maintaining parts libraries for both schematic capture and board layout.
• Experience with designing circuit boards with high-voltage, high-current, and spacing requirements Understanding of industry and IPC standards for PCB Design & Library structure.
• Ability to understand component data sheets. Understanding of Electrical and mechanical engineering design practices.
• Understanding of Electrical and mechanical engineering design practices.
• Requires good communications skills and excellent organization and coordination skills.
• Must be a US Citizen

• This job interacts both in a professional office environment and a manufacturing/machine shop environment. This role uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines, as well as environments inclusive of the appropriate eye, hearing and foot protection (as required).

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to see, talk and hear.
• The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms, and to use hands to finger, handle or feel
• The employee is frequently required to sit at length, stand, walk, and move about the facility.
• The employee may be required to lift and/or move items weighing up to 20 pounds.
• Some filing is required. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary.

Pay Range: $80,000 to 100,000/year

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