Lead your team in designing cutting-edge defence equipment as a Senior Electronics Engineer.

This defence contractor specialises in the design, development, integration and through-life support of successful yet cost-effective military systems and also has their own range of products to support their clients.

You will be responsible for leading your team through the entire engineering lifecycle.

About the Role:

Design electronic solutions: create initial designs, review designs for others, and ensure designs can be manufactured and tested easily.
Develop and improve products: support research and development, integrate systems, troubleshoot problems, and work with external testers to meet safety and quality standards.
Document and support projects: create and maintain technical documents, participate in project meetings, and assistd project teams with electronics-related issues.

About You:

Ability to design, develop, and review digital and analog circuits, ensuring they meet technical requirements throughout the process and achieve customer acceptance.
Experience with electronics design at both the equipment and system levels.
Understanding of legislative compliance e.g. UKCA/CE, EMC, RoHS, Safety etc.
Degree educated or equivalent qualification.
Experience designing safety-critical systems, or mission-critical systems would be desirable.

Key information:

Role: Senior Electronics Engineer
Location: Chertsey, Surrey OR Portland, Dorset (Hybrid)
Salary: 55,000-65,000 dependent on the level of experience
You will need to be eligible to obtain security clearance (SC).

Skills:
Electronics design, analogue and digital electronics, full product lifecycle, requirements capture, electronic testing, team lead, mentoring, compliance, EMC, UKCA, safety-critical.

If you are an experienced Electronics Engineer looking for the opportunity to lead, innovate, and make a lasting impact on high-calibre defence projects, then this is your chance.

Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to British Citizens. Applicants who meet this criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level.

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.

This is a permanent position.