Sr. Electrical Design Engineer

Location: Netherlands

SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional organisation, based in Noord-Brabant Netherlands.

Role Description

As a Senior Electrical Design engineer you’ll be working on new developments. Your focus is on the development and testing of the Electronics and required documentation. Currently the direction of this department is moving towards medically regulated devices in order to enter the US Market, to sustain the EU market after 2020 and to include connectivity to provide for added value to our end customers.
Your responsibilities
As a Senior Electronics design Engineer, you bring your knowledge of electrical circuit into the product development teams. You are the person that defines and executes planning and activities. Together with the software development team you co-develop an automated Electronics/Software integration test environment based on actual electronics designs.
The Electronics designs for this department is moving towards a single platform. You will be involved in defining that platform and keeping the platform consistent over the projects. The electronics development team is investigating to follow the principles of agile, scrum based development in a challenging multi-disciplinary, multi-project, multi-stakeholder environment.

Responsibilities

- You have a background in electronics at a high qualitative level (Master level or PhD level)
- You have a proven track record and experience (minimum of 5 yrs.) in pre-development and realization of new (consumer) products and/or functions in a R&D environment.

- Develop, document, realize and test electrical architectures and detailed designs of innovative products and/or new functions in projects in the area of Personal Care.
- Guide the industrialization process of Printed Circuit Board and Printed Circuit Board Assembly
- Maintain existing products in life cycle management; prove cost down concepts, end of life component exchanges.
- Develop new and optimize existing electronic module concepts and components within cross-functional teams or you lead and control outsourcing of these activities.
- Cooperate with internal and external partners
- Participate as key competence resource in cross functional teams
- Manage the dependencies and deliverables in line with the overall project plan with external and internal partners

Requirements

- A hand–on focus and can-do mentality.
- An excellent communicator and motivator.
- Experience in electronic design and product specification/documentation.
- Experience in Industrialization aspects of Printed Circuit Board and Printed Circuit Board Assembly designs.
- Affinity with embedded software development.
- Experience in cooperation in a multi-site, multi-partner, multi cultural development environment.
- Experience with developing medical devices.
- Experience with EMC standards and measurement techniques.
- Experience with root cause finding techniques.
- Experience in cooperation in a multi-site multi-partner development environment.
- Ability to analyze the stakeholder environment and needs to achieve common objectives, considering contradicting interests and making the best decisions for the project as well as the business.
- Negotiation skills, combined with English language skills.
- Ability to balance risks and opportunities of innovative solutions.
- Preferably you are familiar with Design for Six Sigma.

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Robin Hiariej.