Business Unit:

Cubic Defense

Company Details:

When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com.

Job Details:

: Produces electronic designs by developing and testing to a set of requirements, standards and procedures. Focuses on continuously improving the designs and procedures to exceed customer expectations. This job requires strong analytical and technical abilities and demands fast, but carefully thought-out results. Works closely with other engineering disciplines – systems, software, mechanical, optics and production. Duties require application of engineering principles and techniques. This position typically works under general supervision and direction. Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conducts or participates in research, design, development and testing of digital, analogue and radio frequency hardware to include circuit design and sub-system integration for designated products and/or customer applications.
• Keeps abreast of industry improvements in hardware engineering techniques.
• Trouble-shoots and solves technical issues.
• Assists in product definition. This includes but is not limited to defining product technical and commercial requirements, proposing product solution alternatives, contributing to product briefs, deriving hardware requirements from customer requirements and writing product specifications and test plans.
• Develops design methodically by producing detailed design notes, simulation models, schematics entry, PCB layout, prototyping, validation testing, writing test reports and product manuals.
• Assists in the transition of the product from prototype to production. This includes interfacing with subcontractors or process team as required.
• Evaluate, select and audit electronic component suppliers and electronic subassembly suppliers.
• Design production test equipment for the product being manufactured
• Provide input to production documentation.
• Specifies materials, equipment and supplies.
• Modifies existing engineering designs.
• Logs, compiles and evaluates engineering data.
• Writes engineering manuals, procedures and reports.
• Applies and maintains quality standards.
• Mentors/guides more junior members of the team
• May give work assignments and check work of Design Engineers, Technicians, or Design Support personnel on a common project.
• May provide technical direction and guidance to Design Engineers, Technicians, or Design Support personnel assigned to work on a common project.

Minimum Job Requirements:
Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in the field of electronics or electrical engineering, computer science, or other relevant technical discipline.

Skills/Experience/Knowledge

• 5 years’ experience in a similar field.
• Experience in digital and analogue circuits, low–power battery-based designs and microcontroller-based designs.

Desirable:

• Experience with Altium designer Suite would be preferred.
• Experience with RF design and EMC would be an advantage.
• Experience and awareness of embedded software capabilities and functions would be advantageous.

Competencies:

• Living One Cubic: Identifies with the larger organisation and their role within it, shares resources, responds to requests from other parts of the organisation, supports larger organisational initiatives and sees them as more important than local or personal goals.
• Ethics & Compliance: Demonstrates high level of trust and respect for others and maintains compliance with Cubic's polices, mission and values.
• Communication: Expresses information clearly, transparently, and disseminates appropriately in a timely manner.
• Results: Effectively balances and prioritises time and projects to meet deliverables and drive continuous improvement.
• Winning the Customer: Seeks to understand customer needs and challenges, works effectively with customers to resolve issues, provides exceptional service and deliverables that exceed customer expectations.
• Innovation: Applies information, imagination and initiative to identify efficiencies, implement improvements and drive growth.
• Accountability: Takes personal responsibility for all work activities and actions; follows through on commitments and adheres to deadlines; implements decisions that have been agreed upon; acknowledges and learns from mistakes without blaming others; early transparency about risks and issues; recognises the impact of one's behaviour on others and the company. Examples include: adhering to company deadlines such as completion of time cards, completion of performance reviews; system approvals and project deadlines.

Condition of Employment:

Successful outcome of a National Police Check

*Please note we will recruiting as we go so apply ASAP if this sounds like you!

The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements.  Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.

Worker Type:

Contingent Worker