Advanced Hardware Engineer

Honeywell

Brno, Czech Republic

This position provides an exciting opportunity to advance your Engineering and Engineering Services career within one of the Honeywell’s most profitable and dynamic Business units. This Senior Advanced Hardware Engineer role is responsible for driving and supporting projects that focuses on product life cycle management to include obsolescence, cost reductions, and design for supply chain resiliency actions. The role requires an entrepreneurial approach to apply mechanical design expertise in a global environment while coordinating with cross functional team in design centers, sourcing, manufacturing, quality, and regulatory teams to generate and implement cost saving. This role includes identification of product cost savings opportunities through alternate supplier qualification, product design standardization, and factory transfers.

Key Responsibilities:

Manage VE/CE project liaising with R&D, manufacturing, sourcing and commercial teams to define the work. Monitor progress and manage risks to achieve successful completion;
Prepare Test Plans for the project to make sure the alternative component will satisfy all requirements and final product performance meets the specification;
Review the current electronic board design considering the current technologies in terms of component, materials & process, propose ideations to reduce BoM cost by redesign & optimization;
Perform Component and Product level Qualification – Provide change description, develop test instructions, and create user guides and manuals;
Conduct redesign activities of an existing product to gain more domain knowledge;
Perform a key role in Obsolescence/Shortage issues;
Coach and support team members in electronic design, helping to resolve issues and perform critical design reviews;
Track record of the design and test (developer test, functional test, automated test, climatic test) using HON specific tools (JIRA, JAMA, etc.);
Design for Manufacturing and Testability;
Select component/materials and deal with appropriate component selection tools (Preferred Parts List, Preferred Suppliers List, etc.);
Build and test prototypes, identify issues, and follow up on corrective actions;
Develop test plans and strategies, specify instrumentation, write test procedures, and analyze test results.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering or equivalent subject;
Substantial experience in engineering position, designing/developing electronic products;
Knowledge of Value Analysis/Value Engineering principles and techniques;
Deep knowledge of electronic components, their parameters and characteristics and experience with conditional qualification testing;
Deep knowledge of electronic circuits and subsystems;
Knowledge of PCB CAD design systems, CAD tools, and Simulation Tools;
Experience in EMC and product testing;
Very good written and spoken English, very good communication and negotiation skills, experience multitasking and prioritizing workload;
Experience managing projects; Project Management and Communication skills.