Senior or Principal Production Support Electronics Engineer – Lasers

Overview

In this role you will diagnose and resolve electronics issues on laser products, driving root-cause analysis and corrective actions. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to support NPI and sustainment, ensuring robust test and board-level solutions. The position emphasizes hands-on problem solving, collaboration, and delivering quality improvements, with a clear path to senior leadership. This Edinburgh-based role offers close interaction with operations and supply chain to scale and sustain advanced targeting products.

Pay / Benefits

• generous annual leave with up to 12 flexi-days
• pension scheme with employer contribution up to 15%
• mental health support and financial advice
• access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning
• bonus scheme for employees at all levels
• private healthcare and other flexible benefits including discounts and gym memberships

Responsibilities

• Analyze and diagnose electronics failures, identifying root causes and corrective actions
• Manage escalation of critical faults to ensure timely resolution
• Collaborate with design and other engineering disciplines to resolve complex issues
• Provide detailed problem-resolution reports to management and customers
• Manage component obsolescence issues
• Support transition to production for new laser products (NPI) with supply chain
• Assist in resolving circuit board production issues with supply chain
• Ensure robust board-level test solutions across the supply chain
• Provide feedback on manufacturability, testability and potential cost reductions based on field data
• Engage in training and knowledge sharing with colleagues and partners

Key requirements

• Degree, HND/HNC or equivalent experience in Electronics or related engineering discipline
• Solid knowledge of electronic circuits and PCB manufacturing processes
• Strong diagnostic and fault-finding skills for analogue, digital and power circuits
• Practical laboratory skills with standard test equipment (oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies)
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills
• Ability to make sound engineering judgments in a timely manner
• Experience with hardware product sustainment, testing or design verification
• Good communication skills and ability to work across engineering and non-engineering teams
• proactive, self-starting attitude to drive problems to resolution

• Pragmatic and technically curious
• Strong collaboration and cross-functional communication
• Self-motivated with proactive problem-solving
• Electronics knowledge and fault-finding across analogue, digital and power circuits
• PCB manufacturing processes
• Experience with electronic test equipment (oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies)

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