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Hardware Engineer

Location **IL, Mt. Prospect**

Department **Supply Chain**

Employment Type **Full Time**

Have you ever used the self-checkout in a Walmart, Target or Home Depot? Played the slots at an MGM Casino? Maybe you grabbed a drink from a vending machine or paid to park your car? If you’ve answered with a resounding “YES”, then you’ve done so with the aid of one of the 10 million devices installed by Crane Payment Innovations (CPI).

We make thetechnology that powers your everyday life,enabling more than 4 billion transactions every week in more than 143 currencies worldwide. From cash and coins to cards and mobile, we keep the world of payments moving with smart validation devices and business management software.

Headquartered in Malvern, PA, CPI is supported by: >2,500 global associates, 7 manufacturing sites, 12 corporate offices and 43 service branches.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

The **Hardware Engineer** will provide dedicated electrical engineering expertise for a team focused on delivering cost reduction projects and engineering production support for various CPI product lines. This position will involve concept development and validation, prototype preparation, and design activities to improve quality, value and cost for CPI products. In addition, the engineer will cooperate with Quality, Production and Supply Chain departments whenever design engineering support is required. You will beresponsible for:

• Analyzing and verifying alternate hardware designs and part sourcing opportunities and identify cost reduction opportunities

• Generating schematics and perform detailed circuit analysis to verify design compliance to specific performance targets.

• Creating, simulating, prototyping and implementing value engineering product redesigns

• Managing projects and creating/tracking project plans for PCBA redesign, supplier transfer, cost reductions and various other support projects

• Identifying and implementing engineering solutions for component substitutions to reduce supply chain risk and maintain production uptime

• Developing detailed product design knowledge. This ongoing responsibility is required to provide timely production support and identify potential cost reduction opportunities

• Creating production yield analysis and implementing design improvements to maintain quality

• Participating in design reviews and design related brainstorming events

• Traveling to manufacturing, supplier, and customer sites as needed with appropriate notice

• Supporting activities within the global CPI Supply Chain Engineering team

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

CPI is committed to hiring a diverse workforce and empowers our associates to promote new ideas and apply innovation to our world of payment technology solutions.

You consider yourself an excellent problem solver, with a passion for learning, and possess well demonstrated success in engineering leadership and project management.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience

• 3-5 years of experience in electrical engineering and hands-on hardware development in a fast-paced, cross-functional engineering environment.

• Strong project management skills – ability to plan, prioritize, and execute multiple initiatives simultaneously within the broader constraints of the overall project plan.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills:

• able to collaborate effectively with diverse teams spanning multiple sites as well as be able to work independently

• able to take part and contribute to technical discussions with other engineers and senior managers.

• Must have experience in the design and development of digital and analog electronics principles and design.

• Familiarity with design and biasing of bipolar transistors and MOSFETs in oscillator and closed loop opto-control systems.

• Able to specify suitable Op-Amp / comparator for specific functions without over specifying with cost disadvantage.

• Track record in power switching circuits including the specification of suitable power switches and flywheel diodes.

• Familiarity with resonant circuits based on Op-Amp and comparator building blocks.

• Background in embedded motor drive systems, perhaps in choice of brushless dc motors, drivers, solenoid, and stepper motor drives.

• Good awareness of optical and electromagnetic sensors and their functionality.

• General awareness of new technologies and their benefits.

• Able to use schematic capture [Altium, Mentor Graphics] and PCB layout tools.

• Able to demonstrate technical expertise and technical delivery.

• Innovative and able to convert concepts into reality.

• Practical application of electronics design relating to EMC theory.

• Experience with multidisciplinary design teams and awareness of tradeoffs between electrical hardware, software and mechanical solution approaches.

• Ability to perform and interpret tolerance analysis using worst case and statistical methods

• Ability to travel up to 10%

Personal Attributes

• **Action Oriented:** You display a sense of urgency and are known for being a timely decision maker

• **Analytical Thinker** : You need to have insight and enjoy solving problems

• **Flexible:** You are comfortable wearing many hats and able to shift priorities as needed

• **Comfortable with innovation:** You have passion for continuous improvement and are always seeking a better way to do things

• **Team Player:** You are approachable, and willing to follow or lead based on the team’s need

Nice to Have:

• Manufacturing and production support experience; including root cause analysis and rapid issue resolution in a manufacturing setting

• Understanding and interest in supply chain functions and activities

• Passion for relationship building to drive collaboration

• Experience working closely with supply chain and commodity teams, including supplier communication for sample requests, technical discussions, and cost analysis to support savings initiatives

WHAT WE’RE OFFERING

• Flexible work environment

• Defined career growth plans with opportunities to go outside of your “comfort zone”

• “Innovation Fridays”

• Generous paid time off, including sick and holiday

• Medical, dental, & vision insurance

• 401K with Company contribution

• Flexible spending accounts

• Life insurance and disability benefits

• Discounts for childcare

• Tuition assistance

• Community involvement and volunteering events

• Opportunities to travel and work at our global sites

Sound interesting? Come see why we areOneCPI (https://www.cranepi.com/en/careers) !

CPI is part of Crane NXT

Crane NXT is a premier industrial technology company that provides proprietary and trusted technology solutions to secure, detect, and authenticate what matters most to its customers. The company is a pioneer in advanced, proprietary micro-optics technology for securing physical products, and its sophisticated electronic equipment and associated software leverages proprietary core capabilities with detection and sensing technologies. Crane NXT has approximately 4,000 employees with global operations and manufacturing facilities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, and Malta. For more information, visit www.cranenxt.com.

_Crane Payment Innovations is an Equal Opportunity Employer_ _. Applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, military status, or national origin or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law._

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