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Compliance Engineer

Position- Compliance Engineer for consumer electronic products

Salary- up to £55,000

Location of client- Leeds city centre

Location of work- You can perform this role remotely or in the office

The role-

A growing electronics business in Leeds who design and manufacture their own products, as well as sell third party manufactured products require a Compliance Engineer to join their expanding team. In this role you will take ownership for all compliance related tasks for their electronic products.

The types of products you will be responsible for ensuring meet compliance and regulatory standards will be set top boxes, smart televisions, wifi equipment, routers, 4G mesh networks and devices used in retail.

To be suitable for this role you should be passionate about ensuring electronic devices meet and comply with international standards such as REACH, RoHS, CE, UK-CA, and that all necessary documentation and declaration of conformities (DoC’s) are in place.

Due to incoming changes to existing standards this will mean updating documentation and DoC’s to ensure the products comply to the latest standards. An example are changes being made to WiFi and IoT security standards.

This role will give you opportunity to take a lot of responsibility within a successful and growing business, where you will work with a variety of stakeholders internally and externally. You will also have a lot of flexibility to perform the work where you wish. The company prides itself on having a fun and friendly team environment, where all colleagues look to support each other.

Skills and experience required:

Knowledge of standards for electronic products e.g. CE, UK CA, REACH, RoHS, ECHA, SCIP, CSR
Ensuring compliance reports are reviewed, validated, and filed correctly.
Generating and storing Declarations of Conformity (DoC)
Understanding legal requirements and translating them into practical procedures to adhere to industry standards
Being proactive about compliance changes
Excellent written and oral communication

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

December 5, 2023/in Midlands Permanent /by admin

Position: Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Salary: Up to £65,000 + bonus + Private Healthcare

Location of Office: Birmingham

Location of Work: WFH Hybrid Model

The role: As our client continue to grow their engineering team, they are now seeking an Embedded Software Engineer who will work throughout the full design life cycle developing cutting edge products for the global healthcare sector. Their office is based in the north Birmingham area, but they offer flexible remote working and a 4-day working week.

Skills and experience required:

Embedded C
Microprocessor development – PIC, STM32, ARM, Renesas etc
CAN, RS232, RS485, I2C, Ethernet
Full software development life cycle

The ideal Embedded Software Engineer will be joining a small, growing team with plenty of new product development to get stuck into straight away. You will be experienced enough to manage your own time and workload and be expected to contribute from initial concept through to in house manufacturing and assembly done onsite. You will be strong coding Embedded C and have worked with a range of serial comms (RS232, RS485, CAN, I2C etc) and a host of microprocessor families (PIC, STM, ARM, NXP etc). Any experience at hardware level or integrating firmware solutions to mobile or cloud-based systems will really make your CV stand out.

This role will best suit an Embedded Software Engineer who is passionate about developing innovative software solutions for a product range that improves peoples lives. You will be comfortable in a small team environment and enjoy the variety of work this style of working presents.

Desirable skills and experience:

Wireless protocols: BLE, ZigBee, WiFi etc
C++ programming
IoT connected devices

To be considered for this fantastic opportunity apply with an up-to-date CV today or contact Laurence Powell or Chris Fawcett at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions.

Field Application Engineer

December 5, 2023/in Greater London, Midlands, Remote Working, South Permanent /by admin

Job Title: Field Application Engineer

Location: Fully Remote Working

Salary: Up to £45,000 + Car, bonus, healthcare and more

The Role: A successful and growing electromechanical business that develops, manufactures and sells electromechanical components (e.g. connectors, switches, assembly products) is now looking for a Field Application Engineer. You will have electronics design knowledge and be comfortable interacting with non-technical customers and sales agents. In this role you will be mainly working remotely and will be expected to travel throughout the southern region of England to various customer locations on a regular basis.

This role will be made up of 2 primary aspects:

You will be visiting electronic customers to understand and support their requirements, you will be responsible for advising which components would be suitable for their product design developments. This will mean visiting and speaking to customers as well and doing presentations from time-to-time.
You will be responsible for training a team of 5 to 6 sales engineers so that they have the technical acumen to have technical conversations with perspective customers, to help better understand their needs and make accurate recommendations.

Skills and Experience Required:

Electronics design skills – educational or industrial experience
Fault-finding and trouble-shooting of PCB design related issues.
Knowledge of the electro-mechanical industry including use of materials, environmental effects and constraints
Strong communication and
Degree qualification in an Engineering related subject

Desirable Skill and Experience:

Experience teaching or mentoring
Knowledge of cable harness assembly practices.
Any technical sales experience – telephone or face to face based.

Due to this role involving regular travel it is essential the successful candidate holds a dull UK drivers license, a company car will provided and expenses will be fully reimbursed.

Please contact Laurence Powell or Chris Oddy at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd to discuss this role in further detail.

Electronics Software Engineer

November 29, 2023/in North West Permanent /by admin

Job Title: Electronics Software Engineer

Location: Burnley

Location of work: Very flexible hybrid Work from Home

Salary: Up to £50,000 + Benefits

An exciting new position has been created for an Electronics Software Engineer to join our SME sized client who specialise in the design and manufacture of high volume, battery powered IoT devices. The successful Electronics Software Engineer will be joining a growing engineering team with the chance to contribute to the development of a new range of products that will be sold around the UK and Europe. Their office is in the Burnley area, but they offer very flexible work from home and you will only need to be onsite as a when required for task work (2/3 days a month).

Your workload will be split between electronics and embedded software design and you can expect the split to be 60/40 in favour of electronics design. You will be expected to contribute towards the full design life cycle of a new product range whilst also maintaining existing products. You will take part in design meetings and work closely with other engineers with your role including concept design, PCB design, circuit design, debugging hardware, embedded software programming and in house testing.

Skills and Experience Required:

Analogue and Digital circuit design
PCB design and Layout – Altium or Eagle ideally
Embedded C programming
Microcontroller development – PIC or ARM ideally
A range of serial protocols: SPI, I2C, CAN, UART, TCP/IP etc

Desirable Skill and Experience:

C++ programming
Wireless protocols – BLE, ZigBee, Wi-Fi etc

This role will best suit an Electronic Software Engineer who enjoys both software and hardware design and is keen to make a real impact in the design and development of a range of new products. You could either be an electronics engineer with some software skills looking to get more hands on with software design or an embedded software engineer with some electronics skills keen to develop your electronics circuit design skills.

In this role you will get the chance to work on a range of modern technologies and be actively encouraged to learn and develop new skills. On offer is a salary of up to £50,000 + pension, healthcare and very flexible working hours and remote arrangements.

Please contact Laurence Powell or Chris Fawcett at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd to discuss this role in further detail.

Lead Electronics Engineer

November 27, 2023/in North East Permanent /by admin

Position: Lead Electronics Engineer

Location of Office: Sedgefield

Location of work: Hybrid WFH available

Salary: Up to £65,000 + 10% pension, Private Healthcare and 28 days holiday + bank holidays

The Role: Our award-winning, innovation led client are now looking for a Lead Electronics Engineer to lead and grow their electronics engineering team. This role will be technically hands on and will also involve managing a small team of engineers, leading projects, and taking responsibility for strategy and process level decisions. If you are a technically hands on electronics engineering/R&D manager or a senior electronics engineer looking to take that step up this could be the role for you.

Our client specialises in taking prototypes from concept stage all the way through to technology readiness level working with a variety of customers, predominately in the healthcare tech sector; mainly wearable and wireless connected devices. In their 15 plus years they have built up a very strong reputation in their sector and as such work with a host of industry leading names so there are plenty of exciting and innovative new projects on their product road map awaiting the successful candidate.

Key Skills and Experience Required:

Electronics design skills
Team leadership experience
Project leadership experience
Experience as a Technical authority
Customer facing skills

As the lead in the Electronics team, you will be expected to take technical ownership, allocate work packages and take on day to day management responsibility for the team. You will also be required to be the technical face of the company with new customers and at appropriate stages of the process, so can expect to liaise with customers face to face and via video calls. Therefore, experience in similar scenarios and the communication skills required for such tasks are required.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

Experience within the medical or healthcare tech industries
Team and technical management experience
Experience with wireless connected devices

For more information on this exciting, new position do contact Laurence Powell or Andrew Knight at KO2 Recruitment today!

Embedded Software Engineer

November 27, 2023/in North West Permanent /by admin

Position: Embedded Software Engineer

Location of Office: Blackburn

Location of work: Hybrid WFH available

Salary: £40,000 – £50,000 + Benefits

The Role: A new position has now been created for an Embedded Software Engineer to join our clients growing Engineering team as they work towards the development of a brand-new range of IoT connected devices.

In this role the successful Embedded Software Engineer can expect to take on a key role within software development decisions, design and research. You will work closely within a small team and have the chance to contribute throughout the full development life cycle, from initial concept through to production.

Skills and Experience Required:

C and C++ programming
Programming on Linux systems
RTOS platforms
Relevant degree qualification – Computer Science, Electronics Engineering etc

This will be a hands-on development role and you can expect your day-to-day responsibilities to vary and should expect plenty of variety of tasks in this role. With the main focus on the development of new products you can expect to be involved in concept meetings, product research, prototype development, software programming, in house testing, bug fixing and producing the required documentation.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

Wireless protocols – ZigBee, Wi-Fi, BLE Etc
Development of IoT connected devices
GIT or SVN version control

This role will best suit an Embedded Software Engineer with 3+years industry experience who is now keen to take on a new challenge and be involved in the design and development of a range of IoT connected devices that will be used across the UK and Europe.

Please contact Laurence Powell or Chris Fawcett at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd to discuss this role in further detail.

Technical Author

November 23, 2023/in North West Permanent /by admin

Position: Technical Author

Salary: £40,000 – £50,000

Office Location: Manchester City Centre

The Role: Our client is now seeking an experienced Technical Author to join their engineering team in their central Manchester based offices. The successful candidate will be joining a rapidly growing software design consultancy whose core markets include automotive, medical, semiconductors and financial software solutions.

You will ideally have experience within a fast-paced software development environment, some experience within the automotive, medical electronics or finance software markets, be a detailed oriented, creative thinker and have experience with the following:

Skills and Experience Required:

Proven authoring experience in a software development environment.
Knowledge of markup languages such as HTML, XML or Markdown.
Familiarity with MS Office Suite (Outlook, Excel etc.)
Ability to work within a fast-paced environment.

In this role you will have the chance to create technical documentation, how to guides, technical blogs, industry level articles and other technical content to meet their customers requirements. This will include a mixture of internal and external documents so attention to detail and presenting a clear and concise message is vital.

Desirable Experience:

Familiarity with open-source tools within the marketing tech stack
Degree qualification within a relevant subject

Please contact Laurence Powell or Andrew Knight at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd to discuss this role in further detail.

IT Systems Engineer

November 21, 2023/in Midlands Permanent /by admin

Position: IT Systems Engineer

Location of Office: Stoke-on-Trent

Salary: Up to £48,000

The Role: A new position has now been created for an IT Systems Engineer to join our clients growing Engineering team and take on a key role within their team. Our client build, develop and deploy a range of industry leading detection devices that are deployed around the globe in a variety of hazardous locations. In this role you can expect to be involved in a range of activities from development, build, configuration, design and implementation of a range of bespoke IT hardware, network infrastructure and IT software solutions.

The ideal IT Systems Engineer will be a Microsoft OS expert, familiar with Active Directory, MDT (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit) and Virtual Machines (VMware, Hyper-V etc). You should also be a real IT allrounder with skills and experience covering hardware configuration, network configuration, software validation and system support.

In this role you can expect to work closely with a variety of other engineers from test, firmware, hardware and cybers security teams and should expect your role to offer you plenty of variety of tasks and problems to solve. This is not your standard IT Engineer role, and you should expect the to be very hands on and you will often be expected to carry out work in different production and engineering environments, whilst having the chance to travel internationally to work closely with customers around the globe should you want to.

Skills and Experience Required:

Windows OS
Active Directory
MDT (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit) or similar
Virtualisation – VMware, Hyper-V etc

Desirable Skills and Experience:

Networking with VLAN, VPN and Firewall configurations
Cisco networking equipment or be CCNA certified

Please contact Laurence Powell or Andrew Knight at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd to discuss this role in further detail.

Electronics Engineer

November 20, 2023/in South Permanent /by admin

Position: Electronics Engineer

Salary: Up to £55,000

Location of office: Reading

Location of work: Hybrid Work from Home Available

The Role: Our client, a growing company within the robotics sector are now seeking an Electronics Engineer to join their design and development team. The ideal Electronics Engineer will have solid industry experience, be used to contributing to the full design life cycle and ideally have an interest or experience with robotics design (personal, university or industry projects). Their office is based in Leeds and remote/flexible working options are available.

In this role the successful Electronics Engineer can expect to be working within a small team of likeminded engineers who are also technical enthusiasts. They work to agile development methodologies; you can expect the chance to work on a variety of innovative, brand-new, projects and contribute throughout the full design life cycle.

Skills and Experience Required:

Analogue and digital circuit design
Multilayer PCB design and layout
Schematic capture
Relevant degree qualification

This role will best suit an electronics engineer who has a passion for robotics design, is keen to be very hands on in all stages of the design process and is keen for the chance to build new products and add new skills to their skills set.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

Robotics industry experience
Electronics test equipment
Any embedded software or mechanical design skills

Please contact Laurence Powell or Chris Fawcett at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd to discuss this role in further detail.

C++ Software Engineer

November 16, 2023/in Yorkshire and the Humber Permanent /by admin

Position: C++ Software Engineer

Location of Office: Leeds

Location of Work: Flexible Remote Working Available

Salary: Up to £50,000

The Role: A new position has now been created for a Software Engineer to join our client’s software design team as they work towards the development an innovative, brand new range of products. The ideal Software Engineer will be strong programming with both C++ and Python and ideally be comfortable in both windows and Linux environments.

This is an opportunity to join an electronics business who specialise in developing complex autonomous control equipment and tools used in the subsea sector. Traditionally the tools used in this sector have been ‘manual’, but you will be writing software which turns these tools into autonomous robotic solutions. You will be writing embedded system middleware in C++ and Python on Linux platforms to control large electromechanical equipment which has moving parts.

Skills and Experience Required:

C++ programming
Linux
TCP/IP
Full software development lifecycle

Desirable Skills and Experience:

Python
Docker, Kubernetes or other containerisation
Windows application developmenT

The role offers you opportunity to write software for interesting and challenging engineering solutions. The projects you will be working on is new development for new products, rather than legacy products.

In this role the successful Software Engineer will be joining a small development team and will be given the opportunity to contribute throughout the full development cycle, using modern design practices whilst having the chance to develop new skills across a range of exciting new projects.

This role will best suit a Software Engineer who is looking for variety in their daily tasks, enjoys working throughout the full life cycle and is able to manage their own time and workload.

Please contact Laurence Powell or Chris Fawcett at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd to discuss this role in further detail.