Associate Power Electronics Engineer

Company Description

Do you relish the challenge of being part of a growing business, a team, an industry, and seeing the energy you help generate? Are you at your best when contributing to a range of projects and collaborating across teams to help inform, direct and support those around you in solving the problems of the future?

Within CSA Catapult, we look beyond the status quo. We seek to employ people based on ability and attitude; we measure what you deliver and how you do it. We encourage collaboration in everything we do as we value the diversity of thought that we each bring to every challenge.

Who are we? The next wave of emerging technologies will have an enormous impact on our lives. 5G communications will enable a host of new and exciting applications such as connected autonomous vehicles and multimedia services. The challenge of net-zero to have clean, renewable energy and move from the internal combustion engine to electric cars. Compound semiconductor (CS) technologies will underpin many of these developments.

We are a Not-for-Profit organisation; here to help the UK economy grow, and we work across the UK with a range of industry sectors from automotive to medical, and from digital communications to aerospace. Through employing leading minds and investing in technology, we help turn ideas into reality, bridging the gap between concept and implementation.

CSA Catapult is committed to supporting and upholding diversity, equality, and inclusion in everything we do. A commitment to embrace and advocate for inclusion is an essential part of all roles.

Position

CSA Catapult requires an Associate Engineer to perform design and test activities on multiple projects. The Associate Engineer will be required to work as part of an integrated project team, working closely alongside the Project Manager, Project Technical Authority and Engineering team members.

The Associate Engineer is expected to have a good knowledge of engineering, science, and technology with proven previous research/industrial experience in their field. They will be expected to conduct the assigned project work based on their engineering knowledge and previous experience, perform test and validation activities, and analyse and document their results in the labs at Catapult’s Innovation Centre.

Key tasks include:

• Work closely with the Project Manager (PM) and Technical Authority (TA) to deliver tasks on aligned with the project timeline and to scope.
• Prepare technical documentation including various test requirements, specifications, and plans in collaboration with other project members to demonstrate projects progress.
• Work closely with suppliers providing technical specifications for materials, components, and test equipment within the allocated budget.
• Perform detailed design, test, experiment analysis and validation activities in the labs at CSA Catapult’s Innovation Centre.
• Participate in project’s technical risk assessments.
• Provide inputs to technical proposals, and quotations, when required.

Requirements

The Associate Engineer will report to and support the Engineering Manager- Power Electronics and will exemplify the behaviours and values of the Catapult of collaboration, innovation, and trust. They should have excellent team working skills, working collaboratively, effectively, and cooperatively with colleagues, and should be able to communicate to other team members in an encouraging and supportive way.

• Ideally holds a Masters level degree or offers equivalent research/ technical experience within a relevant research organisation or industry.
• Experience in engineering activities including designing, execution, and analysis of experiments in research & development projects.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent team working skills with the proven ability to work collaboratively, effectively and cooperatively with colleagues.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills like attention to detail, critical thinking and ability to solve problems.

Other information

We offer:

• Up to £ 49,727.60 per annum (full time salary)
• A non-contractual bonus scheme to allow everyone to share in our success
• Life Assurance – 4 times your annual salary
• Scottish Widows pension scheme – you put in 5% and we’ll put in 10%
• 28 days leave in addition to 8 bank holidays
• 37.5 hour full time working week
• A generous private medical insurance scheme for you and your family (enrolment once a year)
• A cashback scheme for your eye tests and dental treatment
• Payment for a professional membership each year
• Holiday purchase scheme (enrolment once a year)
• Flexible working – we operate core hours of 10-4. The balance of your hours can be worked around what works for you
• Electric Vehicle and Cycle to work schemes