Senior Power Supply Design Engineer

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Based in South West the Senior Power Supply Design Engineer will be joining a successful team at one of the largest electronic components manufacturers in the world.

The senior power supply design engineer will be responsible for the Development of Low Power SMPSUs to meet the requirements of the Marketing Specification.

Duties and Key responsibilities include:

Development of overall product including Power Factor Correction, DC-DC convertor, Rectification to meet the Marketing Specification. As part of this the Design Specification will be produced with input from the Team Leader.

Plan project work to deliver required outputs with input from the Team Leader. Organise own work and work of engineers and technicians assigned.

Use all relevant instruments to make measurements to assess design performance.

Analyse and simulate key parameters to verify performance of systems. Create models with SPICE, Excel, Maths tools for calculations using standard components.

Generating reports on work carried out, implement change through the company documentation system

Lead a customer facing meetings when required e.g. off-site technical visit.

Observe the requirements of EN60950 and EN60601 in development work.

Provide technical input to analyse failures

The successful candidate will have knowledge of:

* Flyback, Forward, half-bridge convertors and standard resonant converters.

* Knowledge of higher order resonant converters

* Ability to analyse and design associated control loops and analyse complex magnetic circuits

* Understanding of winding loss mechanisms and design custom cores where appropriate

keywords: SMPS, Power Supplies, PSU