Join MBDA as a Technical Specialist – Power Electronics in Stevenage. This full-time role features a dynamic (hybrid) working arrangement of typically 3 days on-site per week, a salary of up to £57,000 depending on experience, and requires British Citizenship for security clearance.
Requirements
Strong background in power electronics, ideally with design experience of PMSM control systems
Experience with mixed analogue and digital control electronics design
Experience in the full product development life cycle, Design for Test, and Design for Manufacture
Experience with designing for EMC and ENV compliance, and high safety integrity
British Citizen eligible for BPSS security clearance
Skills & Responsibilities
Power electronics expertise: Act as a first point of contact for technical queries and provide proactive guidance on project activities.
Control electronics design: Work on mixed analogue and digital control electronics design including power inverters and DC-DC converters.
Process improvement: Review project plans, support project gate reviews, and promote company processes.
Bid support: Provide technical input to bids in support of Actuator CofEx new business.
Potential transition routes: People from electronics engineering or systems engineering roles may bring relevant power electronics and design skills, alongside meeting mandatory security clearance requirements.
Job description
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: Negotiable - depending on experience
Location: Stevenage (We may be able to offer a relocation package for this role)
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 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: 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.
What we can offer you:
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.
The opportunity:
- 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 CofEx new business
What we’re looking for from you:
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.
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