Electrical Design Engineering Lead - National

Royal Mail Group; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Mail Group is seeking an Electrical Design Engineering Lead to join their Design Engineering Team. This role involves leading electrical design projects, managing a skilled team, and driving innovation to improve business performance. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in electrical engineering and experience with CAD/CAM software.

Benefits

Full family private healthcare

18% annual bonus potential

Generous annual leave of 27.5 days, increasing to 30 days after 10 years

Qualifications

• Experience in detailed product design and development within an automated environment.
• Strong engineering background with intuitive problem-solving skills.
• Proven track record of delivering improvements in a challenging environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead electrical design of in-house technical solutions.
• Manage and develop a key team within engineering.
• Drive reliability into existing automation fleet.

Skills

Problem Solving

Team Leadership

Electrical Engineering

CAD/CAM Software

Job description

Job reference number324646

Electrical Design Engineering Lead - National

Competitive Salary + £4,800 car allowance or £4,300 cash equivalent, Full family private healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential, generous annual leave offering of 27.5 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days after 10 years' service

Full time - 41 per week, Monday to Friday with flexibility required

Permanent

This is a national role where regular travel to various sites will be expected.

At Royal Mail we've served our communities for over 500 years, helping to lead and transform the postal delivery market on a global scale. Our journey to improve never stops, and that's where we need you.

We're currently innovating and transforming our business for the future, adapting towards a parcel delivery market, as well as taking environmental responsibility for our impact as a business. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people.

Are you a proactive, focused individual with a background in Electrical Engineering? Do you have experience in leading Electrical bias projects? If so, we would love to hear from you. We are looking for Electrical Design Engineering to join our Design Engineering Team. Interested? More details and how to apply can be found below.

About the Role

The Electrical Design Engineering Lead will report into the Head of Design Engineering and have direct line management 1 currently although there are plans to expand the team moving forward. You will be responsible for delivering high levels of electrical engineering competence to a team of highly skilled technical engineers.The role will work actively as part of the Design Engineering team, striving to modernise and improve existing processes whilst driving new and innovative solutions into our current ways of working to improve business performance.

This is a key leadership role in our journey to bring the engineering vision to life, responsible for managing and developing a key team within engineering and supporting the growth of the engineering design strand.

You will also

Lead electrical design of in-house technical solutions
Lead testing and implementation plan for electrical bias projects within the design engineering team Play a leading role in driving engineering design projects, innovations and solutions both centrally and locally
Identify future opportunities to drive in-house manufacturing capability to deliver key elements of engineering design projects
Champion new processes to drive in-house capability, innovation and people development within engineering
Work closely with maintenance teams to drive reliability into existing automation fleet
Have the ability to lead, inspire and energise a team of technical experts to deliver high performance

About You

To truly excel in this role, you will possess, and be able to evidence, the skills and experience listed below:

Experience in detailed product design and development within an automated environment
A strong Engineering background with proven ability to demonstrate intuitive thinking towards engineering problem solving and solution delivery.

Strong knowledge and experience of using CAD/CAM software
Ability to meet product development deadlines and quality parameter targets
Ability to work on own initiative and actively as part of a team
A highly motivated individual with a proven track record of successfully delivering improvements and initiatives in a challenging environment

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.

We don't expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve. We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

Closing Date: 03/06/2025.Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
Interviews expected: TBC

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