Senior Project Engineer

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The role would suit someone looking for a diverse and interesting engineering role in a business that takes pride in the products we produce. A proactive approach will enable the holder to expand their capabilities, to be successful, a willingness to learn and great interpersonal communication are essential.

Role Description

You will be part of a broad team of enthusiastic engineers who provide critical products that protect lives. You will be designing the products, capturing the information, talking to both internal and external customers. You will use your diverse engineering capabilities to take action and progress projects, making decisions daily across the business functions, assisting with production and procurement from an engineering perspective.

You will actively learn tackling new problems with a sense of urgency and enthusiasm. Creating new and better methods or working is central to the Ultra Way, continuously improving all that we do through cultivating innovation to bring new ideas, new ways of looking at problems with diversity of thought.

Skills

Due to the breadth of the role, we do not expect you to come with all of the skills, we do expect you to be an active learner, and we will provide you with an environment and opportunity from working with colleagues with considerable expertise that will allow you to grow.

• Electrical
• Interaction with suppliers in selecting components and resolving issues
• Design of electrical systems and component selection
• Definition of manufacturing information
• Electrical schematics
• Procurement specification
• Test specifications
• Systems
• Working with and managing requirements
• Systems Integration
• Working with equipment in a lab to demonstrate basic functionality and take the equipment through qualification and verification stages.
• Mechanical
• Interface between electrical system and mechanical system
• Basic understanding of mechanical aspects of design
• Thermal design
• Shock design
• Packaging
• Materials and coatings
• ILS & Documentation
• Production of project related documentation including:
• Management plans
• Technical reports
• ILS documentation
• Safety documentation
• Availability, Reliability, Maintainability Documentation
• Support & Obsolescence plans
• Customer specific documentation
• Manufacturing
• Support of product through initial phases of manufacturing
• Liaise with suppliers through manufacturing phase to resolve issues.
  

Qualifications & Experience

• Educated as a minimum to HNC in Electrical/ Electronic Engineering
• Ability to work in a team
• Have good familiarity with MS Office including Excel
• Rapid learner, flexible and adaptable engineer willing to undertake varied tasks related to the support of the electrical design and surrounding system
• An understanding of electrical schematic capture and drawing review
  
  

Behaviours

Effective Communication – working with a diverse range of colleagues from all departments you will recognise and be able to communicate effectively.

Collaborates – building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet our shared objectives.

Cultivates innovation – creating new and better ways for us to be successful.

Decision quality – making good and timely decisions that keep us moving forward.

Nimble learning – actively learning through experimentation and tackling new problems using both successes and failures as learning material.

Customer focus – building strong customer relationships and delivering customer centric solutions

Action oriented – taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm

Instils trust – Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty integrity and authenticity

Plans and aligns – planning and prioritising work to meet commitment aligned with organisational goals

Ensures Accountability – holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.

PLEASE NOTE:The successful candidate will be required to obtain relevant security vetting level for the role.

Here at Ultra we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusivity. Underpinned by our values, behaviours and policies, we want you to feel empowered to be the best version of yourself. We also believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures will increase our diversity of thinking, ensuring we successfully deliver to our customers.

We therefore do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also support requests for flexible working arrangements wherever possible.