Job Description
Olympus is a global leader in the medical device and technology industry. For more than 100 years, we have focused on making people's lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling. Our products and solutions help to diagnose, prevent, and treat illnesses, further scientific research and keep people safe.
We are recruiting an Electronics Engineer to join our Research & Development team. Based at our HQ in Essex, you will be part of a multi-regional team.
What is the main purpose of this role?
As an Electronics Engineer within our R&D team, you will assist with the concept, design and development of medical and non-medical components and devices/accessories through initial concept design, engineering analysis, prototyping, risk assessment and evaluation.
What are the key responsibilities?
- Research, design development and prototyping of products in accordance with company development standards to meet functional, clinical, regulatory and manufacturing requirements
- Technical approval for project and process output to ensure compliance with agreed specifications and all relevant regulatory standards
- Research and maintain state of the art new product development, materials and manufacturing technologies including intellectual property and their application to meet or exceed customer company and project needs
- Evaluation and documentation of the feasibility, reliability and risk of concepts and/or prototypes through engineering testing and analysis to demonstrate that the product performance, manufacturability, safety and cost are consistent with the customer, regulatory and production requirements
- Develop timeline costs and resource estimates for development tasks to appraise management of performance against plan, communicating and reporting progress to project management to maintain and track compliance to project schedule
- Generate and review design history file documentation in compliance with relevant regulatory requirements throughout the product life cycle to ensure the design is fully documented
- Progress vendor activities in agreement with global sourcing relative to communication of specifications, developments schedules and tracking in order to obtain components, supplies or equipment to support prototype or product procurement and assembly
- Deliver manufacturable designs acceptable to operations by applying design for manufacture principles and implement feedback from Manufacturing Engineers, external suppliers and other sources
- Ensure high product and process quality in collaboration with the quality department and all other departments
What skills and qualifications are required?
- You will possess the minimum of a HNC in Electronic/Electrical Engineering combined with relevant professional experience
Mandatory
- PCB design experience - single, double sided, multi layer, through hole and surface mount
- Use of circuit simulation tools
- Mixed digital & analogue circuit design
- Micro-controllers with a focus on optimisation for real time closed loop control & sensing
- Working knowledge of programmable power supplies, Oscilloscopes, Spectrum Analysers and EMC test equipment
- A team player, able to work in a multi-disciplinary team including Electronics, Electrical, Software, Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineers
Desirable
- Experience in a regulated and highly industrial or scientific engineering environment
- Experience in medical device development
- Sensor interfacing & signal conditioning – temperature, flow, pressure, speed, force, torque, vibration etc.
- Practical skills including building electronic circuits, wiring, soldering
- Documentation experience including risk assessments, 60601 checklists, test plans and protocols, design specifications
What does Olympus offer?
- In addition to a competitive salary, Olympus contributes greatly to employee pensions
- All employees are eligible for private medical cover and life assurance
- A generous annual leave entitlement which increases over your length of service
- We support work-life balance with flexible working hours and hybrid remote working
- We have a subsidised staff restaurant on-site at our UK HQ (and free parking, of course)
Other benefits include discounted gym membership, an annual health check and so much more!
We are an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to ensuring that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Canteen
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Employee mentoring programme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid volunteer time
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Relocation assistance
- Shuttle service provided
- Sick pay
- Store discount
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Southend-on-Sea