Electronics/PCB Design Engineer at L3Harris… · Brisbane

About the role

Our team in Eight-Mile Plains are seeking a Electronics/PCB Design Engineer to join them. In this role, you will design, develop, and support innovative electronic hardware solutions, working across schematic capture, PCB design, prototyping, testing, and production support in a collaborative engineering environment.

What role will involve

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• Design, development and prototyping of new power and control circuits, including programmable logic devices, or design modification of existing products, from concept through to production.
• Generate DC schematic diagrams and layout DC PCBs using Altium.
• Creation of DC power budgets to track power consumption.
• Review DC designs, analyses, and documentation produced by other engineers, while ensuring adherence to the Engineering Change Process.
• Selection and management of subcontractors for DC PCB substrate manufacture and population.
• Perform part stress analysis and reliability predictions.
• Define, derive, and verify compliance against performance specifications.
• Identify and manage technical risks, making informed trade-off decisions and escalating where appropriate.
• Documentation of product design either directly or through supervision of contractors or drawing office staff as appropriate.
• Generate a bill of materials for entry into the ERP system.
• Work with Procurement to source and procure parts required for prototypes/production.
• Support Procurement activities by defining component requirements, evaluating suppliers, and approving substitutions or changes.
• Review project schedules and meet financial and time constraints.
• Provide clear and concise technical reporting to internal stakeholders and customers.
• Provide specialist Electrical Engineering advice to other engineers and non-engineering stakeholders.
• Contribute to bid and proposal activities by providing technical inputs, risk assessments, and estimates.
• Participate in internal company process e.g. non-conformance reports, failure reports, etc.
• Develop and review manufacturing documentation, test procedures, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure designs meet quality, reliability, and manufacturability requirements in accordance with AS9100 and internal quality systems.

What you’ll bring

The role requires the following experience and skills:

• Degree qualified (or equivalent) in Electronics/Electrical Engineering.
• 4+ years’ prior relevant experience in a similar role.
• Eligible for registration with the Board of Professional Engineers of Queensland (RPEQ).
• Experience in generating DC schematic diagrams and DC PCB layouts with Altium (or equivalent).
• Ability to work independently or as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Desirable:

• Expert knowledge of Altium for generating DC schematic diagrams and DC PCB layouts
• Experience with designing for and testing EMI/EMC compliance
• Experience with design for manufacturing and developing assembly and test documentation for operation in a production environment
• Experience with a production environment

About L3Harris Australia

L3Harris has provided advanced technology solutions to government and commercial customers across Australia for more than 25 years. L3Harris has facilities in all major cities and employs over 500 people.

L3Harris in Eight Mile Plains is The Centre of Excellence for Electronic Warfare and is home to world-leading design, manufacture and integration expertise and the sustainment of high-reliability electronic warfare components. Our highly skilled workforce design and develop Australia’s sovereign defence capabilities such as the next-generation space, airborne and cyber capabilities for the Australian warfighter.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• An additional week of leave per annum plus the option to buy or sell up to 2 weeks additional annual leave.
• Salary continuance insurance (SCI pays 75% of your base salary and bonus for up to 2 years)
• Flexible working hours and patterns depending on location
• Discounted private health insurance
• Life & Total Permanent Disability Cover
• Novated Car Leasing
• Company supported professional development programs
• Retail Reward programs
• Company paid parking/onsite company car park
• Half day finish on Fridays

Important to know

Due to the nature of our work many our roles require an Australian citizenship and will require the successful candidate to successfully apply and hold an Australian Defence Security Clearance and/or be assessed to work with ITAR information. Please answer the pre-screening questions upon applying for this assessment.

For more information or a confidential discussion, please contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruitment@aus.L3Harris.com

L3Harris respectfully requests no agency submissions at this time.