Job title: PCB Layout Engineer
Job type: Permanent
Location: Tewkesbury
Number of roles: 1

Job description:

Our client is an engineering and technology consultancy who provides support for its clients in the fields of innovation, R&D, and IT systems in over 30 countries.

Due to ongoing expansion, they are looking for a PCB Layout Engineer to join their team within the Defence sector. This is a fantastic chance to join a fast-growing company with strong core values of, Excellence, Accountability, Integrity and Service.

Responsibilities:

• Design digital, analogue and RF printed circuit boards, collaborating across functions and projects.
• Working with the electronics and mechanical engineers to analyse and interpret PCB requirements.
  Owning the PCB design and layout from including physical definition right through to drawing release.
• Application of and ambassador for DFx methodologies throughout the design.
• Performing library management functions, creating schematic symbols and component footprint cells according to IPC requirements and company standards.
• Performing peer reviews of PCB designs & library data to ensure they are suitable for release

Skills Required:

• Significant experience of designing PCBs incorporating: 4-20 layers, micro-vias, blind and buried stack-up, BGA break-out and surface-mount components.
• Design for compliance with EMC, LVD, CE, RoHS and harsh-environmental standards in both the military and commercial fields.

Experience Required:

• Significant experience of designing PCBs incorporating: 4-20 layers, micro-vias, blind and buried stack-up, BGA break-out and surface-mount components.
• Routing high-speed busses, length matching, net tree topologies, controlled impedance lines, reference planes and layout for signal integrity.
• Design for compliance with EMC, LVD, CE, RoHS and harsh-environmental standards in both the military and commercial fields.
• Experience of: Mentor Graphics: Design Capture, DxDesigner, DxDatabook, Library Manager, Constraint Editing System, IO Designer; Expedition PCB Advanced Interconnect, and Autodesk Autocad.
• Good understanding of configuration control (ideally PLM Arras Innovator but not obligatory)
• Attention to detail and high levels of accuracy.

Security Clearance Level

• SC/ SCUKEO