From the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on earth, to surging shorelines and anywhere in-between, we make the impossible possible through our continuous passion for innovation. That innovation comes from our greatest asset: our people.
Our people design, engineer and manufacture technologies that enable our customers to discover, navigate, measure, detect and communicate in the toughest environment on earth: Our oceans.
We’ve been actively developing the technology to make the oceans accessible for nearly 50 years and we’re only just getting started…
Who are we looking for?
Sonardyne is seeking an Electronic Hardware Team Leader who demonstrates the capabilities to lead, mentor, and manage other team members. The Electronics Team Leader can successfully manage conflict resolution between team members, has strong decision-making skills, and acts with independence based on evidence coming from their direct reports.
Your responsibilities:
The Electronic Hardware Team Leader’s time is split between electronic engineering activities (at a senior level) and managing a team of engineers.
- Lead a team of engineers, ranging from experts in analogue, digital and PCB design to apprentices or junior members of the team.
- Inspire, coach and lead direct reports to enable them to achieve individual and business goals.
- Resource allocation – Understand who in their team is best placed to achieve the product’s goals.
- Team administration, including goal setting and performance reviews.
Technical Leadership
- Lead planning, architecture, development, and validation of new hardware designs.
- Apply risk/mitigation techniques at all stages of the development cycle.
- Mentor team members on technical matters to ensure they stay effective in their roles.
- Drive technical conversations on products and cross-engineering improvements.
- Investigate challenging and complex hardware issues, both in assistance to more junior members and directly with other areas of the business.
- The department is responsible for maintaining existing products and working closely with the NPI department to ensure successful transition between the development and production phase.
Individual technical responsibilities
- You will design, develop, test, and deliver high quality and reliability electronic hardware.
- The scope of the role includes development of electronics hardware on a range of subsea instruments developed within the department from underwater acoustic modems, Doppler velocity logs to data loggers and much more.
- Keep up to date on technical changes in areas of specialty.
The ideal candidate will have the following skills, knowledge, and experience:
- Manufacturing – Experience in a manufacturing company with an understanding of the consequences of decisions made and the importance of risk mitigation.
- Digital Electronics – Focus on low power but highly complex digital systems involving a range of digital architectures including embedded Linux and FPGAs.
- Analogue Electronics – Experience in low noise, low power analogue receiver design and high voltage transmitter designs.
- Simulation – Actively simulates designs to conform to the mantra “right first time”.
- EMC – Understanding of the principles of designing to meet EN60945 and other relevant standards.
- Altium – Ability to create circuits and basic knowledge of PCB design techniques.
- Leadership – Ability to lead and manage a team effectively.
- Communication & Team Working – Proactive communication and effective collaboration with other team members and teams throughout the business to achieve project deliverables.
- People Management – Experience in holding one-to-ones, appraisals, and career planning. Ability to listen and provide constructive coaching.
- Embedded Software – Basic coding skills to enable board bring-up and ensure testing is complete prior to handover to Software Team.
- 2:1 or above in a relevant Engineering degree, such as Electronics, but not limited to.
Ready to join our energetic, forward-thinking team…?
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