HiArc is hiring: Manager, Electrical Hardware Engineering in Merrimack

Manager, Electrical Hardware Engineering

The Electrical Hardware Engineering Manager is responsible for the successful execution of hardware development for innovative, leading edge medical diagnostics technologies involving diverse clients and applications. This role blends management and technical contribution skill sets into an exciting career opportunity. The ideal candidate will manage a small team of hardware engineers and technicians while providing technical knowledge and engineering design services to a variety of client projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage an electrical hardware development team of 5 to 8 people
• Develop and utilize talents of personnel to accomplish company goals
• Review job performance of the development team personnel
• Ensure promotion, transfers, terminations, and compensation changes are acted upon where warranted
• Ensure effective communication with other functions and departments to obtain all cooperation and support required for the success of assigned programs
• Provide technical leadership over complex, major design & development projects
• Design, implement and deliver high quality, robust embedded electrical designs for the business
• Create, maintain, and review technical documents and reports including performance specifications, electrical designs, schematics and drawings
• Drive electrical requirements with other members of the engineering team as appropriate and proactively work to integrate with system requirements
• Plan, lead, or conduct experiments to evaluate operating characteristics of breadboards, prototypes, or products, and translate experimental results into design criteria
• Specify the design of cables and cable harness assemblies
• Utilize electronic design tools such as schematic capture and PCB layout to design PCBAs
• Engage with service bureaus and suppliers on PCB layout, fabrication and assembly
• Ensure component reliability based on technical evaluation of suppliers’ specifications and designs
• Utilize electrical engineering best practices including Design-for-Manufacturing (DFM) and Design-for-Test (DFT)
• Work cooperatively across all engineering disciplines and non-engineering team members to deliver projects on time and on budget
• Prepare project requests detailing proposed engineering work costs and product timetable
• Be responsible for application engineering support to customers, and assist in troubleshooting customer application problems
• Provide technical presentation support and consultation to marketing
• Represent the company in customer communications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline (Master’s degree preferred) with at least 10 years of experience in electrical engineering and electronic design and development
• Diversified knowledge of engineering theories, concepts, principles, practices, and processes, including in one or more areas of advanced technical expertise
• Creativity and originality sufficient to contribute to new inventions, designs, or techniques that are of material significance in the solution of important problems
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills; 1-3+ years of experience preferred
• Expertise with schematic and PCB designs using mixed digital and analog circuits for electromechanical systems, including stepper and servo motors
• Proficiency with cable designs and programmable logic (FPGA and VHDL) preferred
• Previous experience with design for medical devices preferred
• Familiarity with design of test equipment and fixtures preferred

Skills And Abilities

• Must be self-motivated and able to work in a multi-disciplinary team environment
• Creative/innovative, able to think on your feet, and work well under pressure and deadlines
• Strong communication and teamwork skills including written, verbal, interpersonal, presentation, organizational and conflict resolution abilities

Benefits

• Most locations offer a 9/80 schedule, providing every other Friday off
• Competitive compensation & 401(k) program to plan for your future
• Robust medical, dental, vision, & disability coverage with qualified wellness discounts
• Basic Life Insurance and Additional Life & AD&D Insurances are available
• Flexible Vacation & PTO
• Paid Parental Leave
• Generous Employee Referral Program
• Voluntary Benefits Available: Longer Term Care, Legal, Identify Theft, Pet Insurance, and more
• Voluntary Tricare Supplement available for military retirees

HiArc, an Elbit America company, is an equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

This job description does not list all the duties of the job. You may be asked by your supervisors or managers to perform other duties. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.