EHI Routing Design Leader

Safran Engineering Services; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 weeks holiday per year

Early finish on Fridays

Personal pension scheme

Death in service life insurance

Career development within Safran Group

Onsite canteen

Job summary

Safran Engineering Services is seeking an Electrical Harness Installation (EHI) Routing Design Leader to develop capabilities in the UK. The role, located in Derby after initial training in Toulouse, requires managing electrical harness activities and ensuring delivery quality.

The ideal candidate will have an electrical engineering degree, over 5 years of experience, and strong skills in team and activity management. Benefits include 5 weeks holiday, a pension scheme, and career development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years total experience in electrical engineering.
• At least 2 years in activity management and team management.
• 3 years minimum of electrical 3D CAD experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage electrical harness installation resources and activities.
• Ensure delivery of harness 3D models and manage productivity metrics.
• Maintain quality and timeliness of deliverables.

Skills

Electrical engineering knowledge

Activity management

Team management

Electrical 3D CAD experience

Interpersonal and Communication skills

Fluent English

Knowledge of French

Education

Electrical engineering degree

Job description

In order to develop and expand the capabilities of SAFRAN Engineering Services in the UK, we are looking to recruit an Electrical Harness Installation (EHI) Routing Design Leader to support our exciting customer project on train design. The role will require training in Toulouse, France for 4‑6 months and then will be located in Derby, UK. We are looking for someone to start ideally in July 2026.

You will manage Electrical Harness installation resources and activities on the project for which you are responsible. You will be responsible for the electrical deliveries for each electrical baseline of the project. You will need to build and develop the EHI technical competency in the Team.

You will be accountable for the delivery of the right product at the right moment to the project Train Electrical Engineer, the product consisting of the complete electrical case or a set of electrical deliverables for each baseline and retrofit, made of:

• Harness Design workload on his/her project/tender
• Application of the Metier rules and processes

You will be responsible for the delivery of harness 3D models from mechanical integration, managing the EHI QCD of your project, managing the EHI workload with effective utilization of Harness designers and sub‑contracting management (definition, monitoring, acceptance).

Performance Measurement / KPI's

• Quality of his/her delivery (included sub‑contractor delivery):
  • 1st time quality rate > 90%
• Respect of the delivery planning (included sub‑contractor delivery):
  • 100% on time delivery
• Level of application of standard PPL:
  • 85% of PPL for interface connector and 100% for production break connector
• Configuration management of his/her deliverables:
  • 100% of deliverables properly managed into configuration database
• Continuous improvement or Return on Experience (RoE) management from previous projects:
  • Zero missing RoE

Requirements

• Electrical engineering degree qualified
• Total experience greater than 5 Years
• Knowledge of Electrical engineering technical applications
• Experience in activity management (at least 2 years)
• Team management (at least 2 years)
• Train system and Harness Integration knowledge preferred
• Understanding of Industrial and Harness manufacture in order to understand the "internal clients" requirements
• Electrical 3D CAD experience (at least 3 years)
• Fluent English, with knowledge of French preferable
• Good Interpersonal and Communication skills

Benefits

• Early finish on a Friday (1pm)
• 5 weeks holiday per year plus statutory bank holidays
• Personal pension scheme whereby 5% contribution from employee and 8% from employer plus salary sacrifice
• Death in service life insurance - covering up to 4x annual basic salary in the event of death in service
• PEGI Share Scheme
• Career development within Safran Group
• Training & development are a focus
• Onsite canteen