Description
Location: Christchurch, UK or Letchworth UK
We Take Care of Our People:
- Work-life balance through our Hybrid working, flexitime program and condensed work week (role dependent)
- Paid Time Off
- Retirement with Employer Match
- Health and Wellness Benefits
- Learning and Development Opportunities
- Competitive Pay
- Bonus Scheme
- Recognition
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Inclusive & Supportive Culture
Your Challenge:
- Participate individually and as part of an integrated project team in the design of the Company’s products.
- Design and develop new flight recorder, air data computer, ruggedised computer system or video products.
- Maintain the existing product line including obsolescence management, periodic circuit uplift and production support.
- Take responsibility for ensuring allocated qualification tests are completed successfully, both in-house and at external test houses.
- Write formal design documentation.
- Attend and actively contribute to the effective operation of applicable design reviews.
- Support and guide junior colleagues in technical matters.
- Undertake new technology evaluation and introduction in product designs.
- Accept technical responsibility for allocated design tasks.
- Assist Production Engineering in the introduction of equipment into manufacture in a cost effective and timely manner.
- May represent the Hardware function internally and externally.
- Infrequent UK and international travel as required.
What You Bring:
- Educated to Degree/HND level in an appropriate technical subject.
- Relevant experience in embedded systems, digital and analogue design.
- Familiar with small Microprocessor and microcontroller systems.
- Familiar with avionics and defence standards, e.g., DO-254, MIL_STD_704, MIL-HDBK_217F, ARINC 429 would be an advantage.
- Familiar with Op Amp level analogue & DC_DC PSU design.
- Familiar with Design for EMC.
- Flexible able to complete Environmental Testing to standards such as RTCA/DO_160 including detailed test specification report writing.
- Ability to fault find down to a board level.
- Experience working closely with or in production is advantageous.
- Experience within an aerospace/automotive/medical/safety-critical environment is advantageous.
About Us:
Our Values: Environmental, Social Governance
Curtiss-Wright's Defense Solution division is a trusted proven leader delivering superior products services that meet the defense aerospace industries' toughest challenges with best-in-class value.
In 2017 Curtiss-Wright relocated its Avionics Sensors Controls Industrial Business Units into a brand new purpose-built 160000 ft2 facility at Bournemouth International Airport.
The state-of-the-art facility has extensive design manufacturing capabilities as well as in-house environmental stress screening.
The facility is committed to quality excellence manufacturing for our flight recorder air data computer video management systems computing systems mission displays video recorder products.
As the design center of excellence for flight recorders air data computers units had to be lightweight small -- crash survivability requirements exceeding existing standards commercial aircraft.
Please note benefits are country specific may vary from location location.
Compliance Statement: Please note that working conditions may vary due physical environment each workplace type work performed local regulatory requirements.
Examples working conditions may include but not limited personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements handling potentially hazardous material specialized security clearance lifting requirements specific working condition requirements if applicable maintained local level.
This job description summarizes main duties job neither prescribes restricts exact tasks that may assigned carry out these duties nor does it preclude performance other duties by incumbent this document should not construed any way represent contract employment Management reserves right review revise document any time.