Lead Electrical Design Engineer
Progressive Recruitment
A complete application in a minute
Tailored resume and cover letter, ready to send.
Benefits offered by this job
Job summary
Progressive Recruitment in Clevedon is seeking a Lead Electrical Design Engineer to lead a growing team within a global engineering manufacturer. You'll own technical direction, govern design and support complex electro–mechanical systems in a highly regulated environment.
The role offers hybrid and flexible working, a salary up to 63,000 plus an annual bonus up to 7.5%, pension and wellbeing benefits, and clear progression opportunities across engineering programs.
Qualifications
- Excellent leadership and mentoring abilities.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Structured problem-solving and root-cause analysis experience.
- Experience leading engineers, projects or tech work packages.
Responsibilities
- Leading, mentoring and developing a team of Electrical Engineers.
- Technical ownership of complex electrical systems and sub-systems.
- Supporting sustaining engineering, product upgrades and lifecycle activities.
- Managing technical risk, design reviews and governance activities.
- Supporting product verification, validation and compliance programmes.
- Leading root cause investigations and corrective action implementation.
- Driving engineering best practice, standardisation and continuous improvement.
- Collaborating with manufacturing, service, project and customer-facing teams.
- Supporting engineering change, configuration control and technical documentation.
Skills
Education
Job description
A Global Engineering Manufacturer is seeking a Lead Electrical Design Engineer to join its growing engineering team in Clevedon.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Electrical Design Engineer looking to combine technical leadership, team development and complex product delivery within a highly regulated engineering environment.
Working on sophisticated electro–mechanical systems, you will provide technical leadership across sustaining engineering programmes, supporting product improvements, engineering change, obsolescence management, field upgrades and long–term product lifecycle support.
This role offers genuine influence over engineering standards, technical direction, design governance and the development of future engineering capability across the business.
As a Lead Electrical Design Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across multiple engineering programmes whilst supporting and developing a growing team of engineers.
- Leading, mentoring and developing a team of Electrical Engineers
- Technical ownership of complex electrical systems and sub–systems
- Supporting sustaining engineering, product upgrades and lifecycle management activities
- Managing technical risk, design reviews and engineering governance activities
- Supporting product verification, validation and compliance programmes
- Leading root cause investigations and corrective action implementation
- Driving engineering best practice, standardisation and continuous improvement
- Working closely with manufacturing, service, project and customer–facing teams
- Supporting engineering change, configuration control and technical documentation activities
- Reviewing and approving engineering documentation and technical reports
- Degree qualified in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- Significant experience designing complex electrical or electro–mechanical systems
- Experience leading engineers, projects or technical work packages
- Experience supporting sustaining engineering and product lifecycle activities
- Strong understanding of engineering compliance and safety standards
- Experience with engineering change, configuration control and technical documentation
- Experience applying structured problem–solving methodologies and root cause analysis
- Strong communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Ability to work across multidisciplinary engineering teams
Applications are welcomed from engineers with experience gained within Special Purpose Machinery, Industrial Automation, Robotics, Scientific Instrumentation, Capital Equipment, Medical Devices, Aerospace, Defence, Nuclear, Advanced Manufacturing or other industries involved in the design and manufacture of complex electrical or electro–mechanical systems.
- Salary up to 63,000
- Annual bonus of up to 7.5%
- Hybrid and flexible working
- Pension with up to 8% employer contribution
- 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
- Life Assurance at 4x basic salary
- Cash health plan
- Fitness app and discounted gym memberships
- Comprehensive wellbeing programme
- STEM networks, employee clubs and social events
- Ongoing career development and progression opportunities
- Exposure to advanced engineering technology and innovative products
- Opportunity to influence engineering standards and future product development
Skilled Worker visa sponsorship is available for candidates already living and working in the UK who require ongoing sponsorship.
If you're a Senior Electrical Design Engineer, Principal Electrical Engineer or Lead Electrical Design Engineer looking for a technically challenging leadership role with genuine influence over products, people and engineering strategy, we'd like to hear from you.
To find out more about Progressive please visit (url removed)
Progressive Recruitment, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy Registered office 8 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4BQ, United Kingdom Partnership Number OC(phone number removed) England and Wales
'/%3e%3cpath%20d='M101.744%2012.4726L102.894%2016.1947L99.0021%2013.2201L101.744%2012.4726ZM105.3%208.40937H100.488L99.0026%203.59473L97.5116%208.41047L92.7%208.40385L96.5965%2011.3834L95.1055%2016.1942L99.0021%2013.2196L101.408%2011.3834L105.3%208.40992V8.40937Z'%20fill='white'/%3e%3cdefs%3e%3clinearGradient%20id='paint0_linear_5593_1381'%20x1='90'%20y1='9.44471'%20x2='99'%20y2='9.44471'%20gradientUnits='userSpaceOnUse'%3e%3cstop%20stop-color='%2300AD70'/%3e%3cstop%20offset='0.998594'%20stop-color='%2300B67A'/%3e%3cstop%20offset='1'%20stop-color='%23DCDCE6'/%3e%3c/linearGradient%3e%3c/defs%3e%3c/svg%3e){kind=small}
