Component Engineer
Job Description
Spectrum Safety Solutions:
With approximately 1,500 employees operating in more than 20 countries, Spectrum Safety Solutions is a global leader in fire detection and suppression solutions for high-hazard applications across verticals such as critical infrastructure, oil and gas, marine and clean energy. Our global team leverages strong customer relationships across four recognized brands, Det-Tronics, Marioff, Autronica, and Fireye, to deliver differentiated lifecycle solutions and advance growth across key segments. Carved out from Carrier’s Fire & Security business in July 2024, Spectrum Safety Solutions is now a privately-held company under the ownership of Sentinel Capital Partners.
Det-Tronics:
We make the world a better place to live! At Spectrum’s Det-Tronics, we build and maintain comfortable, accessible, efficient, healthy, safe, secure, and sustainable environments. Det-Tronics is a $180M technologically innovative, projects-based global brand protecting customers in many challenging environments with high end flame and gas detection products and systems. Det-Tronics is a part of Spectrum Safety Solutions and has a global footprint with manufacturing sites in the U.S. and sales presence in all key geographies.
The successful candidate will control the specification, approval, and management of company component data.
Key Responsibilities:
- Liaising with engineering, procurement, configuration management, commercial, PCB and mechanical design teams, component manufacturers and suppliers to create and manage accurate component data.
- Processing new component forms and augmenting the data supplied by the originator to include such information as: moisture sensitivity level, storage conditions, reflow temperature, dimensions, and weight.
- Ensuring new components are not duplicates of parts in the component data library.
- Entering component parameter data into the component data library and Product Lifecycle Management tool.
- Identification of alternative components based on accurate comparison of datasheet specifications, cost and availability.
- Identification of preferred and non-preferred components in the component data library and encouraging the use of preferred parts.
- Proactively managing component obsolescence.
- Amending component library data in accordance with company configuration management processes.
- Maintaining the component data library by performing rationalization and data integrity audits.
- Acquiring and recording the evidence necessary for compliance with RoHS, COSHH, REACH, WEEE and other environmental standards.
- Managing complete families of components in terms of original selection, change and obsolescence management.
- Maintaining market awareness of component manufacturers, their product ranges and road-maps in order to provide an authoritative opinion on component selection choices.
- Responsible for completing component engineering tasks in accordance with agreed service level agreements.
- Responsible for the integrity and version control of the company component data library.
- Encouraging new component originators to conform to component engineering best-practice and procedures.
- Enforcing company component naming and numbering conventions.
- Creating 3-D component models.
- Identify Alternative components that meet part requirements.
- Creation of component PCB footprints to IPC standards.
- Designing schematic symbols for components used on circuit diagrams.
- Responsible for operating in accordance with company policies and procedures.
- Responsible for regular reporting on achievements and progress.
- Involved in continuous improvement activities.
Required Qualifications:
- A degree in electronic engineering or a related discipline.
- A thorough understanding of component parameters and the ideal and non-ideal properties of components.
- Achieves high standards of accuracy, with an eye for detail.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- A clear, confident inter-personal communicator with good written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience in the following:
- Component engineering
- Electronic product design
- Have used the relevant Tools:
- Microsoft: Word, Excel, Access, InfoPath, Adobe: Acrobat
- Material Requirements Planning (MRP) eg. SAP & Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools
- Cadence Allegro tools
Preferred Qualifications:
- Self-motivated and proactive.
- Exhibits an enthusiastic, confident, and positive attitude.
- Encourages teamwork, both within PCB Design & Component Engineering and with other departments.
- Willing to consult the opinion of others and negotiate consensus where necessary.
- Maintains a polite, respectful, and professional demeanor at all times.
- Is prepared to ensure project success in any reasonable way.