Contract Hardware Engineer Mid. at TPI (Tech Providers, Inc.)
Cedar Rapids, IA
About the Job
Job Purpose:
Delivers services to customers by planning, constructing, and maintaining field facilities; managing staff.
Duties:
* Accomplishes field engineering human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and
* Achieves field engineering operational objectives by contributing field engineering information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining field engineering system improvements; implementing change.
* Meets field engineering financial objectives by forecasting field engineering requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
* Develops field facilities strategic plan by studying service requirements and projections; analyzing functionality of facility locations; identifying new locations and requirements; conducting feasibility studies.
* Develops field facilities project plans by scheduling projects; coordinating requirements; obtaining approvals; approving drawings, schematics, specifications, and work orders; hiring contractors.
* Monitors field facilities projects by analyzing work loads; inspecting materials and technique; enforcing standards; resolving design and implementation issues.
* Maintains field facilities by scheduling and conducting inspections and preventive maintenance visits; repairing and upgrading facilities.
* Maintains records by developing and upgrading databases; auditing data input; filing documents.
* Represents the organization by presenting information at hearings; coordinating with governmental agencies.
* Avoids legal challenges by understanding current and proposed legislation; enforcing regulations; recommending new procedures.
* Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
* Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
Skills/Qualifications:
Planning, Staffing, Conceptual Skills, Problem Solving, Developing Budgets, Database Design, Legal Compliance, Presentation Skills, Professionalism, Self-Confidence, Safety Management
Delivers services to customers by planning, constructing, and maintaining field facilities; managing staff.
Duties:
* Accomplishes field engineering human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and
Position : Contract Hardware Engineer Mid.
Location: Cedar Rapids, IA, United States
Duration: 11+ Months
Description:
- Design and implement high-reliability electronic systems, including PCBs, embedded systems, and power electronics.
- Lead and manage the entire circuit card design lifecycle, from requirements capture and schematic design to component selection and detailed analysis (signal integrity, simulations, timing, and thermal analysis).
- Generate PCB layout constraint guidelines, create board stack-ups, and oversee routing, layout, fabrication, and assembly of complex designs.
- Create test plans, perform root cause analysis, and conduct testing of electronic circuits and systems during development and testing phases.
- Design circuit cards using FPGA, processors, DDR memory, and industry interfaces such as Ethernet, PCIe, I2C, USB, LVDS, and SERDES technologies.
- Work both independently and collaboratively with team members on assigned tasks.
- Utilize schematic capture tools like Siemens Mentor Graphics, Xpedition, Altium, Cadence Allegro, EAGLE, or KiCAD for circuit card designs.
- Familiar with Agile methodologies for hardware development, including planning, tracking, and managing tasks in JIRA.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards (e.g., DO-254, DO-160) and manage hardware verification and validation using tools like IBM Doors or Jama.
* Achieves field engineering operational objectives by contributing field engineering information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining field engineering system improvements; implementing change.
* Meets field engineering financial objectives by forecasting field engineering requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
* Develops field facilities strategic plan by studying service requirements and projections; analyzing functionality of facility locations; identifying new locations and requirements; conducting feasibility studies.
* Develops field facilities project plans by scheduling projects; coordinating requirements; obtaining approvals; approving drawings, schematics, specifications, and work orders; hiring contractors.
* Monitors field facilities projects by analyzing work loads; inspecting materials and technique; enforcing standards; resolving design and implementation issues.
* Maintains field facilities by scheduling and conducting inspections and preventive maintenance visits; repairing and upgrading facilities.
* Maintains records by developing and upgrading databases; auditing data input; filing documents.
* Represents the organization by presenting information at hearings; coordinating with governmental agencies.
* Avoids legal challenges by understanding current and proposed legislation; enforcing regulations; recommending new procedures.
* Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
* Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
Skills/Qualifications:
Planning, Staffing, Conceptual Skills, Problem Solving, Developing Budgets, Database Design, Legal Compliance, Presentation Skills, Professionalism, Self-Confidence, Safety Management