Senior Electrical / Electronic Engineer

Are you looking for a new opportunity that offers meaningful work with true purpose? We would love to welcome you to our multinational team! Your growth is our growth. We invest in your future by enhancing your skills and abilities through training opportunities and interesting challenges.

At Panasonic, we believe in the power of collaboration - only together can we continue to expand our innovative edge and exceed our customers’ expectations. We are a powerful brand with a rich company culture, based on our 7 principles. It's not just about what we do, but how we do it. To fulfil our social responsibilities, we will continue to do what we have done for over 100 years - to enrich people’s lives at home and at work, and move society forward.

PMUK's Home Appliance Division are looking for a Senior Electrical / Electronic Engineer to join the R&D Department on a full-time, permanent basis. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing new and existing technology in-line with customer requirements, and leading and contributing towards multiple and often complex projects, ensuring that project development objectives are met successfully. This position will provide comprehensive technical knowledge and ability to aid in the resolution of issues and the completion of technical assignments, they will also provide support to the project engineers and team leader as required as well as mentoring and supporting other members of the Electrical / Electronic team with technical aspects of their work

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Control the design, development, and evaluation, from concept to mass production for new models, ensuring they comply with the customer requirements and liaising with other areas of R&D to ensure this is fulfilled.
• Critically evaluate design proposals and participate in peer review meetings. Develop test procedures to validate designs. Study EMC & Signal Integrity issues, identify and eliminate design problems before sample stages.
• Ensure liaison with customers, suppliers, and PMUK departments in order that all project stakeholders are fully informed at all times.
• Provide evidence that the relevant customer, Panasonic, regional (e.g. EN) and general product safety directives are considered where appropriate.
• Apply technical expertise to investigate, identify, implement, and support countermeasures and improvements to resolve complex issues and coordinate development issues; including evaluation failures and changes in requirements with internal contacts, external suppliers, and customers and other Panasonic organisations.
• Fully assess and consider historic problems and endeavour to eradicate them from future designs. Leading and supporting engineers in this activity.
• Ensure development builds are according to agreed schedules. Supporting with components and assembly house queries.
• Support cost requirements for projects / developments including samples costs, mass production parts, and tooling cost.
• Support the Project Leader to create and maintain project plans / schedules for electrical / electronic aspects of developments.
• Support the Project Team to ensure relevant project based AQ and R&D documents (NCL, schedule table, BOMs, etc.) are completed in line with the required processes.
• Consider new technology to improve and implement new R&D systems / processes, ensuring efficient product development and future improvement to product development.
• Provide information for the weekly project update (issued to PMUK management), providing updates on any new or ongoing issues, including appropriate responses and actions being taken.
• Provide necessary information for technical and strategic meetings and attend and contribute to the relevant development meetings, both internal and external.
• Mentor and support other members of the R&D department with the technical aspects of their work.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Degree level qualification in an Engineering or business based discipline plus 5 years relevant industry experience, or at least 10 years relevant industry experience in a similar role.
• High level of experience in Electrical and EMC testing in a design environment and of fault finding to component level.
• High level of experience of PCB design tools (Zuken CR5000 preferably) and Circuit simulation tools.
• Highly experienced in designing electronics circuits and taking the design from concept to mass production.
• Dealing with sub-contractor assembly houses.
• Design for EMC / ESD and noisy environments.
• Knowledge and experience of project management processes.
• Experience of soldering and de-soldering (including surface mount components).
• Excellent knowledge and experience of electrical and electronic circuit theory.
• Hands on experience of using electrical and electronic test equipment and tools.
• Must be an effective team player with a flexible attitude and good communication skills.
• Experience of leading a team of Engineers / Technicians.
• Self-starting with good initiative and able to demonstrate a methodical approach to tasks, with a view to developing own ideas and solutions.
• High level problem solving skills with the ability to efficiently resolve technical issues.
• Knowledge of PMUK Home Appliance products would be desirable.
• This role will involve some physical manual handling
• Must have a valid driving license.
• Must hold a valid passport and be willing to travel internationally.

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

• Flexi-time system.
• Company pension contributions of up to 10%.
• Early finish on a Friday.
• Free parking on site.
• Annual leave entitlement of 24 days (+ bank holidays), increasing up to 30 (+ bank holidays) with service.
• Death in service benefit of 4x annual salary.
• Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, bereavement, adoption, surrogacy, and sickness.
• Fuel card with UK Fuels, providing discounted rates at the pump.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Long Service Awards.
• On-site canteen.
• Exclusive 'Staff Sales' site for Panasonic products.
• Training and development opportunities.
• 'Refer a Friend' recruitment scheme.

ABOUT US
Pana­sonic is one of the largest and lead­ing elec­tronic pro­duct manu­facturers in the world. The depth and variety of our re­search capa­bilities, manu­facturing ex­pertise, high quality and sophisticated pro­ducts have remained strong since 1918. Our mission is to create the Panasonic business of "tomorrow." By integrating business, technology, and creativity, we will realize ideal lifestyles and societies solving social issues globally. Learn more about Sustainability at Panasonic.

Panasonic Manufacturing UK Ltd. (known as PMUK) established itself in Cardiff in 1974 and has prided itself on providing quality products to provide enhanced living for our customers, always making people central to our activities. Focusing on our innovative electronics technology, we strive to provide a wide variety of products, systems, and services in various spaces and areas, such has homes, communities, businesses, and automobiles.

PMUK is currently home to three separate business divisions:

• Home Appliance Division (HAD) focuses on the cooking appliance market and is specifically involved in the design, development, and production of high-quality microwave ovens.

• Mobile Solutions Business Division Europe (MSBD EU) specialises in providing integrated computer solutions, specifically involving configuration of TOUGHBOOK and TOUGHPAD products, docking solutions, and services to match their customers’ full solution requirement. The Panasonic TOUGHBOOK range sets the industry standard for ruggedised laptops and tablets used by automotive, defence, emergency services, forklift, transport and logistics, manufacturing, utilities, and other key markets.

• Panasonic Connect Europe Customer Service Centre (PCOEU-CS) is a repair centre for PCOEU, which provides business products and solutions to help businesses capture, compute, and communicate every piece of visual, voice, and text-based data using a range of broadcasting equipment, interactive displays, and projectors. 

DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION
Fairness and equality are in our DNA. We are committed to creating a safe and inclusive workplace where people feel empowered to bring their whole selves to work. We want to ensure that our people are respected for who they are as individuals, valued for what they do and celebrated for their contribution to our business and our community. We are committed to promoting inclusion for the success of our business.

Panasonic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability, or any other characteristics.