Senior Electronics Engineer
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Location
Westhill, Scotland, United Kingdom
Posted At
4/14/2025
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About The Role
Senior Electronics Engineer
Westhill, Aberdeen
Permanent position
About Us
JFD part of the James Fisher Group, is the world leading underwater capability provider, serving the commercial and defence markets with innovative diving, submarine and hyperbaric rescue, technical solutions and services.
Operating worldwide, the company is the world’s leading provider of submarine rescue capability and an established provider of submarine escape training. The company is at the forefront of Hyperbaric Rescue, along with being the leading supplier of commercial and defence diving equipment and saturation diving systems to the commercial industry.
About The Role
To provide engineering design solutions and through life engineering support to the JFD product range. Workload can vary from new product design to meet client or internal specifications through to supporting an existing client’s request to upgrade or change equipment in the field.
Principle Accountabilities
You will need excellent written and verbal communication along with the ability to work as part of a team but also in isolation when required.
Excellent organisational skills along with excellent attention to detail.
Methodical and thorough whilst generating and checking documentation.
Ability to adapt to changing scope or client demands.
Willingness to take ownership and accountability of tasks and drive to completion.
Focused on delivering high quality output to tight deadlines and willing to go the extra mile to ensure success is achieved.
Focused on delivering cost efficient solutions on time and on budget.
Qualifications And Experience
James Fisher is a global engineering services company. From our origins as a ship owner and operator, we’ve evolved to provide the expertise and innovative technology our customers need in the harshest of environments across Energy, Defence and Maritime Transport.
The Defence Division provides underwater systems and life support capabilities, for the defence and commercial diving markets.
James Fisher & Sons are committed to taking positive action on diversity and we strongly encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and as a Disability Confident employer we are committed to offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
James Fisher and Sons plc, are proud to be partnered with the Career Transition Partnership, the official provider of Armed Forces resettlement for over 20 years.
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Senior Electronics Engineer
Westhill, Aberdeen
Permanent position
About Us
JFD part of the James Fisher Group, is the world leading underwater capability provider, serving the commercial and defence markets with innovative diving, submarine and hyperbaric rescue, technical solutions and services.
Operating worldwide, the company is the world’s leading provider of submarine rescue capability and an established provider of submarine escape training. The company is at the forefront of Hyperbaric Rescue, along with being the leading supplier of commercial and defence diving equipment and saturation diving systems to the commercial industry.
About The Role
To provide engineering design solutions and through life engineering support to the JFD product range. Workload can vary from new product design to meet client or internal specifications through to supporting an existing client’s request to upgrade or change equipment in the field.
Principle Accountabilities
- Provide engineering design input to new systems and products and provide support to the existing product range by assessing technical queries.
- Liaise with internal JFD departments such as sales, supply chain and production to ensure the best technical solution is provided in all instances.
- Creation of part numbers and bill of materials and sourcing suitable components and materials when required.
- Creation of engineering documentation such as specifications, proposals, assembly instructions, test procedures, certification and reports and checking detailed manufacturing drawings and documentation.
- Ensuring engineering solutions are provided on time and on budget and adhere to engineering and company standards and processes (compliance to internal and external standards and regulations).
- Accountability and responsibility as the discipline technical approver of drawings and documentation generated within the JFD engineering team.
- Where applicable, responsible for promoting engagement to achieve a resilient diverse high performing team.
- Where applicable, the line management of a small team on performance, development, allocation/delegation of work and compliance to internal and external standard & regulations and develop and mentor team through the use of a competence framework and training, development plans and performance appraisals.
You will need excellent written and verbal communication along with the ability to work as part of a team but also in isolation when required.
Excellent organisational skills along with excellent attention to detail.
Methodical and thorough whilst generating and checking documentation.
Ability to adapt to changing scope or client demands.
Willingness to take ownership and accountability of tasks and drive to completion.
Focused on delivering high quality output to tight deadlines and willing to go the extra mile to ensure success is achieved.
Focused on delivering cost efficient solutions on time and on budget.
Qualifications And Experience
- Demonstrated experience in a similar role.
- Electrical and Electronics engineering degree or equivalent industry experience
- Knowledge of PCB schematic capture using software such as Altium Designer.
- Knowledge of PCB layout using software such as Altium Designer or working with
- external design bureaus to generate layouts/gerbers.
- Proven electronics design skills.
- Experience of circuit design for embedded systems (STM32 or similar)
- Experience writing embedded software (STM IDE or similar).
- Knowledge of electronic systems and designing for EMC compliance.
- Experience of design for Functional Safety compliance and also experience of design for CE Compliance.
- Knowledge of design standards for electronics (IPC) along with being skilled in generating design calculations.
- Competent in the use of engineering design software tools / CAD packages.
- Knowledge of design standards.
- Experience with Product Lifecycle Management system for generating and storage of engineering packages.
- Experience working to marine, defence standards and class society rules (mainly LR and DNV).
- You will need to be able to pass security clearance for this role and also have the right to work and reside in the UK.
James Fisher is a global engineering services company. From our origins as a ship owner and operator, we’ve evolved to provide the expertise and innovative technology our customers need in the harshest of environments across Energy, Defence and Maritime Transport.
The Defence Division provides underwater systems and life support capabilities, for the defence and commercial diving markets.
James Fisher & Sons are committed to taking positive action on diversity and we strongly encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and as a Disability Confident employer we are committed to offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
James Fisher and Sons plc, are proud to be partnered with the Career Transition Partnership, the official provider of Armed Forces resettlement for over 20 years.
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