Validation Contract Jobs

• Managing innovation projects for new device technologies.
• Managing improvement projects for manufacturability, cost reduction, complexity reduction, component selection and obsolescence or consumer complaint reduction.
• System Design Specification - work with necessary stakeholders and prepare system requirements specification including hardware and software.
• System Functional and Non-Functional Analysis - carry out a range of analysis and investigations to create the user stories for the product.
• Liaise with cross category architecture teams to maintain alignment with the specified programs, as well as electrical and physical architecture.
• Product Verification and Validation - design and develop system integration plan and tests.
• Lead System Integration and test (EVT).
• Assist with safety certification testing and country specific homologation.
• Responsible for product documentation from initial proposals through first production release.
• Assist with production and field failure analysis as required.
• Provide device and electrical /electronics systems Subject Matter Expertise (SME) for prior art technical assessments of patents for freedom to operate.
• Designing and leading (internally or with our partners) R&D device design experiments in support of assertive patenting workstreams.
• Ensuring electronics design and packaging meet requirements of battery technologies used by the company.
• Develop test kit, where necessary, to interrogate onboard chips or measure outputs against a functionality matrix.
• Improving drawing standards and ensuring drawings supplied from design teams / 3rd party industrial design agencies meet requirements for PCB assembler implementation and quality inspection.

• Background Electrical ./ Electronics Engineering
• Knowledge and understanding of product development processes
• Single layer PCB design experience and electronics test design
• IPC J-STD-001 and IPC-A-610 (level 1)
• Component selection and experience in battery powered, consumer electronics
• RF comms design, Electronics and battery encapsulation.
• Component choice for manufacturability, operational performance and consumer safety
• KPI definition and dashboard creation, Fluent in Electrical CAD software use
• Working knowledge of electrical and firmware design methods
• Working knowledge of mass produced product development and debug tools
• Use of PCB design software (Altium or similar), Flexible circuit design
• Experience with Li-ion battery failure modes

Brent 5084496 Temporary Asset Data Analyst - Housing Management

This role is for someone with some level of Social Housing experience in Asset Management/Data Analysis. This role is NOT an IT role. Must be a Keystone User.

In collaboration with other staff within the Strategic Asset Management team, lead on the collection, validation and analysis of data necessary to implement our investment, acquisition and disposal programmes.

Provide data analysis, reports and information to colleagues in the Strategic Asset Management team and to all relevant council departments to ensure effective decision making in relation to the active Asset Management Strategy development, delivery and programming.

Provide current and accurate information on the condition of its assets, their performance and develop investment programmes for major component replacement and refurbishment and cyclical and reactive maintenance that will ensure the affordable delivery of the asset management strategy.

Pay Rate: £16.48 per hour PAYE

This is a temporary, but possibly long term role.

N.B. – Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.

Giving yourself the best chance of success:

• Your CV needs to be current with your latest/present role, noting that we won’t be able to submit it with any unexplained gaps in employment. It will save time and thus improve your chances of success if we can put your CV forward immediately and without having to ask you for a revised version.
• Your CV must cover the “Essential Requirements” (see below) of the role, ideally by way of bullet points that directly address the “Essential Requirements” listed. Please include any DBS details and other qualifications called for.
• Your CV should clearly state that you are available to start work either immediately, or at short notice. In general, our clients are unable to work with notice periods of more than 1 week from the point at which a role is offered, 2 weeks at the very most.
• We cannot put forward covering letters, so please ensure that your CV in isolation contains all relevant information being called for.
• We recommend that you consider sending us by email (see * below) a suitably ‘tailored’ CV for each role that you apply for, noting that job boards, sites and aggregators will generally store only one version of your CV, which can be a bit limiting...

“Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:

• Your address (including post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours
• Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
• Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
• Educated to A level (in a scientific or technical discipline) or equivalent relevant experience
• Social Housing background within Property Services/Asset Management essential
• Must be a keystone user
• Experience:
  • Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation
  • Experience of using IT systems to validate, analyse, maintain, extract and report on data
  • Experience of working with maintenance and asset management IT software modules, such as stock condition surveys, cyclical maintenance, and associated project and programme management systems, including Housing Management Databases
  • Experience of identifying, implementing and monitoring quality measures
  • A clear understanding of the issues of data quality management
• Skills and Abilities:
  • Analytical approach to data and data quality with the ability to assess and evaluate a range of options and able to think strategically and contribute to the overall success of the business
  • Highly analytical, able to undertake sophisticated data and systems analysis
  • Ability to deliver accurate KPI information across a diverse range of disciplines from multiple data sources
  • Able to successfully manage assigned tasks, ensuring that agreed outcomes are delivered on time and to the expected standard
  • Personally effective with excellent organisational skills and the ability to plan and co-ordinate own workload, prioritise tasks and be self-motivating with the ability to work on own initiative, or within a team
• Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages

Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:

• Any local authority/public sector experience
• Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for

Client Category: Local Authority

Division(s)/Disciplines involved: Housing Management/Asset Data Analyst

Anticipated Length of Assignment: All of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent. This opening assignment is for 2-3 months.

Hours per week: 36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours

Whilst our ads will appear on partner sites such as Indeed, they are also listed - and will appear first - on our own website: Triumph Consultants Limited: www.tclrec.com

• If you would prefer to send a CV straight to us rather than by way of an on-line application, you are very welcome to do so via [email protected] but please quote both the job reference and job title exactly as they appear below:

Job Ref: Brent 5084496

Temporary Asset Data Analyst - Housing Management

Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.

We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.

Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.

• Managing innovation projects for new device technologies.
• Managing improvement projects for manufacturability, cost reduction, complexity reduction, component selection and obsolescence or consumer complaint reduction.
• System Design Specification - work with necessary stakeholders and prepare system requirements specification including hardware and software.
• System Functional and Non-Functional Analysis - carry out a range of analysis and investigations to create the user stories for the product.
• Liaise with cross category architecture teams to maintain alignment with the specified programs, as well as electrical and physical architecture.
• Product Verification and Validation - design and develop system integration plan and tests.
• Lead System Integration and test (EVT).
• Assist with safety certification testing and country specific homologation.
• Responsible for product documentation from initial proposals through first production release.
• Assist with production and field failure analysis as required.
• Provide device and electrical /electronics systems Subject Matter Expertise (SME) for prior art technical assessments of patents for freedom to operate.
• Designing and leading (internally or with our partners) R&D device design experiments in support of assertive patenting workstreams.
• Ensuring electronics design and packaging meet requirements of battery technologies used by the company.
• Develop test kit, where necessary, to interrogate onboard chips or measure outputs against a functionality matrix.
• Improving drawing standards and ensuring drawings supplied from design teams / 3rd party industrial design agencies meet requirements for PCB assembler implementation and quality inspection.

• Background Electrical ./ Electronics Engineering
• Knowledge and understanding of product development processes
• Single layer PCB design experience and electronics test design
• IPC J-STD-001 and IPC-A-610 (level 1)
• Component selection and experience in battery powered, consumer electronics
• RF comms design, Electronics and battery encapsulation.
• Component choice for manufacturability, operational performance and consumer safety
• KPI definition and dashboard creation, Fluent in Electrical CAD software use
• Working knowledge of electrical and firmware design methods
• Working knowledge of mass produced product development and debug tools
• Use of PCB design software (Altium or similar), Flexible circuit design
• Experience with Li-ion battery failure modes

• Design ownership for micro-controller based inductive power supplies including full-bridge rectification, custom magnetics, LAN interface.

• Fully documenting designs, including Schematics, BOMs and PCB Layouts.

• Research, development and implementation of combined power and communications.

• Risk assessment of designs and manufacturing process via DFMEA/PFMEA.

• Product test strategy, prototype and production validation.

• Obtaining global product approvals, liaising with approvals agencies.

• Managing sub-contractors & research partners.

• Support and enhancement of Company's comprehensive patent family supporting inductive power.

• Deep knowledge of developing power supplies with buck, boost and flyback topologies.

• Circuit design, including schematic capture and simulation via SPICE. Experience of commercial ECAD software, e.g. ORCAD, PADS, Pulsonix.

• Magnetics design including selection of materials, simulation and design for manufacture.

• Global approvals for product safety and EMC.

• Microcontroller based power supply design (PIC32 desirable) and embedded software development.

• Reliability analysis and component de