Electronics Engineer

Pratt & Whitney; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace company in Plymouth is seeking an experienced electronics engineer to enhance production quality and technical integrity. This role involves conducting root cause analyses, implementing corrective actions, and collaborating across teams to ensure reliable navigation systems. Candidates should have demonstrated expertise in analogue and digital electronics design, preferably in aerospace or defense environments. The role offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits including a strong pension scheme and private health insurance.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Excellent pension contribution

Private health insurance

25 days annual leave

Early finish on Fridays

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience with low level analogue and digital electronic design, ideally within aerospace or defence environments.
• Appreciation of mechanical design and production principles for military or high-reliability electronics systems.
• Understanding of established problem-solving approaches.

Responsibilities

• Conduct root cause investigations into production issues and customer returns.
• Contribute to change control and technical reviews.
• Ensure technical integrity of production output.

Skills

Analogue and digital electronic design

Failure analysis

Technical leadership

Problem-solving approaches (8D, 5-Whys, Ishikawa)

Job description

Date Posted: 2026-01-09

Country: United Kingdom

Location: Atlantic Inertial Systems Limited, Clittaford Road, Southway, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 6DE

Position Role Type: Unspecified

At Collins Aerospace, precision and reliability guide everything we do. Our Plymouth site is a recognised centre of excellence for navigation and control systems, developing world‑class innovations such as MEMS-based IMUs and TERPROM® terrain navigation systems.

We are seeking an electronics engineer with a detailed knowledge of analogue and digital electronics design and failure analysis, and production operations support, ideally gained in an aerospace or defence environment.

This role sits within a multi-disciplinary engineering team dedicated to safeguarding the technical integrity and performance of our production output. You’ll play a key part in ensuring every product leaving the site meets the highest standards of reliability and compliance.

What You Will Do

You will conduct root cause investigations into production issues and customer returns, identify and implement corrective actions, and work closely with design teams to ensure lessons learned are built into future generations of our products. You’ll contribute to change control and technical reviews, providing trusted technical input on product design, performance, and test system integration.

You will play a key role in maintaining product quality, reliability, and continuous improvement across our production lines. You’ll provide specialist engineering expertise, drive failure and root‑cause analysis, and ensure lessons learned are embedded into future designs.

This role combines hands‑on technical problem solving with cross‑functional collaboration, supporting production, design, and supply chain teams to deliver world‑class inertial and navigation systems. You’ll play a key role in maintaining the technical integrity of production output including:

• Validating technical compliance of all production output.
• Providing technical support to Production Engineering, to investigate and resolve product failures at all stages of assembly and test.
• Providing technical support to Industrial Engineering with regards to test equipment upgrades and new product and process introduction.
• Providing technical support to Supplier Management teams to assess and approve Supply Chain deviations & concessions.
• Carrying out failure investigations and identifying corrective actions, which may include leading multi‑disciplinary investigation teams using 8D or similar methodologies.
• Managing investigation and test of customer returns, including documentation and programme / customer liaison.
• Technical review and approval of production and design concessions, deviations, calibration failures, production failures and other non-conformances.
• Maintenance of relationships with Engineering design teams to ensure production and customer knowledge is fed back and implemented into the design process.

What You Must Have

• Demonstrated experience with low level analogue and digital electronic design, ideally within aerospace or defence environments.
• Appreciation of mechanical design and production principles for military or high-reliability electronics systems.
• Understanding of established problem-solving approaches (e.g. 8D, 5‑Whys, Ishikawa etc).
• Experience operating as a technical lead or approver, and working towards Technical / Design Authority recognition.
• Experienced & respected within their current business and able to influence at all levels.

Skills & Experience We Value

• Experience of working with systems incorporating analogue sensing elements.
• Knowledge of principles of design, operation, production and test of inertial measurement systems.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
• Excellent 2:1 matched pension contribution (up to 10%).
• Private health insurance and life assurance.
• 25 days annual leave plus the ability to buy or sell up to 5 more.
• Early finish on Fridays.
• Career development, mentoring, and world‑class training opportunities.

Join Us!

If you’re passionate about maintaining the highest standards of engineering quality and supporting the delivery of cutting‑edge aerospace systems, we’d love to hear from you.

Note: The successful candidate must hold an active or be willing and eligible to obtain SC level security clearance. Please note that access to certain projects may be restricted based on nationality.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.