Principal/Lead Electronics Engineer

Overview Ltd.; Woking; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Bonus Scheme

BUPA Medical Insurance & Cashback plan

Hybrid working (role dependent)

27 days holiday + bank holidays

Rail season ticket loan

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Overview Ltd. in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Lead Electronics Engineer to join our hardware engineering team at the head office in Woking, Surrey.

You will lead and grow our electronics capability across the full product lifecycle, delivering innovative products while mentoring engineers and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders. This hands-on role requires strong motor control, EMC, PCB experience with Altium, and a track record of robust hardware solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of electronic design experience.
• Experience leading business-critical projects.
• Ability to work across rapid development cycles.
• Strong brushless motor design knowledge.
• Experience with Altium for schematic design.
• EMC design and testing experience.
• Embedded software/firmware experience.
• Excellent English communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead the electronic engineering team and ensure capability, capacity, process and tools meet business needs.
• Capture stakeholder requirements for new products and variants.
• Form, manage and own electronics system/subsystem.
• Define electronic architectures and obtain stakeholder agreement.
• Document specifications, compliance and verification processes.
• Use CAD tools (Altium, LTSpice, CAD trace calculators, thermal calculations).
• Select processes (soldering, reflow, wave, SMD/Through-hole, plating, vias, thermal management).
• Develop validation test plans for pre-production hardware.
• Develop production test plans including test jig design and equipment allocation.
• Support Head of Hardware Engineering in improving processes and tools.
• Interface with customers for product development and support.
• Manage outsourced partners with SOWs and performance reviews.
• Assess project proposals with leaders on scope, deliverables, timescales, budgets.
• Supervise on-site and external EMC test activities.
• Lead root cause analysis for production and design issues.
• Research new technologies for performance and cost improvements.

Skills

Leadership

Electronic design

Project management

Altium experience

EMC knowledge

Embedded software

Tools

Altium

LTSpice

CAD trace calculators

Thermal calculation

Job description

Overview is looking for an experienced Lead Electronics Engineer to join our hardware engineering team at our head office in Woking, Surrey.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a hands‑on electronics leader to play a pivotal role in the delivery of innovative new product development projects. You’ll lead and grow our electronics engineering capability, working across the full product lifecycle — from requirements capture and architecture definition through to design, verification, production test planning and customer support. In this role, you’ll lead technical decision‑making, support business‑critical projects, work closely with internal and external stakeholders, and help drive continuous improvement across engineering processes, tools and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership of the electronic engineering team. Ensuring the capability, capacity, process and tools in these groups meet the business needs.
• Capture of stakeholder requirements from internal and external customers for new products, variants or problem spaces.
• Formation, management and ownership of electronics system/subsystem:
• Definition and documentation of electronic architectures and trade off studies and obtaining agreement to these with the relevant stakeholders
• Comprehensive documentation of the specifications, compliance and verification processes ensuring designs are innovative, cost effective, fit for purpose and reliable.
• Effective use of CAD design tools (Altium, LTSpice, CAD trace calculators, Thermal calculation).
• Effective process selection, e.g. Soldering: reflow/vapor/wave, SMD/through hole, plating, via technology, testability, layer stack, thermal dissipation and conduction etc.
• Operational and legal compliance
• Developing validation test plans that fully test and prove pre‑production hardware to guarantee the produced design meets the specifications.
• Developing production test plans, including equipment allocation, test jig design to ensure repeatability and maximise production yields.
• Support the Head of Hardware Engineering in driving the efficient use, and continuous improvement, of the Engineering and New Product Development business processes and tools.
• Interface directly with customers (internal and external) for both new product development as well as product support.
• Project and commercial management of outsourced partners including selection, preparation of requirements, Statements of Work, preparation of sub‑contract agreements and performance management
• Work with the other functional leaders to ensure that new project proposals are accurately assessed in terms of project approach, deliverables, timescale, budget and resource requirements
• Supervising and conducting of test work both in‑house and at external EMC test houses.
• Lead root cause analysis of production & design problems to a successful conclusion.
• Execution of research into new technologies for continuous improvement of performance and cost.

Personal ProfileMandatory

• 10+ years of experience in industry as an electronic design engineer designing complex integrated mechanical, electrical and software products.
• Experience in leadership roles on business‑critical projects.
• Experience planning and working to schedules in rapid development cycles.
• Solid understanding of brushless motor design concepts.
• Design experience in one or more of the following:
• Video signal processing/management.
• Interfacing with sensors (optical/magnetic/temperature).
• Experience in analogue signal conditioning, protection circuitry and power supplies.
• Experience in designing for and resolving EMC issues.
• Embedded software and firmware experience to support architectural design considerations, board bring‑up, board proving and troubleshooting during integration.
• Expert at writing and managing requirements.
• Experience writing and executing test plans and managing integration, verification and qualification.
• Excellent communications skills and fluency in English – both spoken and written.
• Demonstrable initiative and leadership in problem solving.
• Experience in using Altium for schematic design and PCB layout.

Preferred

• Experience in the development of products for manufacture in low‑mix‑high‑volume and high‑mix‑low‑volume markets.
• Experienced with data management systems associated with Altium such as Vault.
• Experience with supporting products through life cycle.
• Project technical leadership.
• Experience in coaching/leading others & a desire to grow into a leadership role.

Personal Attributes

• Works on own initiative – with determination to deliver.
• Methodical and meticulous.
• Highly organised.

Why work for us?

• We are an exciting, growing company committed to excellence and innovation.
• We greatly value the hard work, ingenuity and integrity of our team.
• We provide an environment for rapid personal development.
• Salary £60,000 - £70,000 depending on experience
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• BUPA Medical Insurance & Cashback plan
• Flexible start & finish times & hybrid working (role dependent)
• Cycle to work scheme & Rail season ticket loan
• Company-funded professional subscriptions (up to £250 per year)
• Free refreshments, fruit and snacks

What we do.

Overview, a rapidly growing UK SME, develops and manufactures market‑leading Autonomous Sensors Systems and Integrated Servo Drives for global markets.

Overview’s Intelligent Autonomous Sensors Systems (Pods) use multiple sensors and sophisticated edge intelligence to autonomously provide users with actionable digital information. Pods can autonomously detect, classify, alert users and track targets of interest, all at machine speed. Developed for use in critical domains such as defence, surveillance, security, emergency response and counter‑UAS, applications include ground‑based solutions and those mounted on manned and autonomous vehicles.

Overview’s expertise includes the development and manufacture of innovative, precision, brushless, Integrated Servo Drives. These Integrated Servo Drives are sold to a rapidly growing global customer base for a range of exacting positioning applications and used by Overview in the development of Sensor Systems.

Technology leadership is core to Overview’s strategy and is underpinned by the investment of more than 20% of turnover in R&D. Specialist capabilities exist in motor design and control, mechanics, electronics, embedded software, AI/ML and sensor integration, plus systems engineering.

Overview is committed to growing exceptional business value through customer focus and providing a leading capability to rapidly define and develop unique, innovative, and market‑leading products.

Our Values

Overview’s operations and reputation are based on the following company Values and Behaviours. These Values and Behaviours, consistently applied, make us what we are and are a key element of the value that we bring to our customers.

• Work together to Win Together
• Creativity and Innovation
• Integrity and Respect
• Customer Focus
• Positive Impact

The Process

Most of our interviews will take place over one or two stages, typically a phone/teams interview followed by a face‑to‑face interview on‑site. We do ask all candidates who are coming to a face‑to‑face interview to carry out a short Psychometric assessment to help us understand how you tick!

If you wish to discuss any reasonable adjustments to our process, we are happy to discuss this to see what we can do. We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.

Please note that this is a UK‑based role, and therefore, employment will be subject to satisfactory right‑to‑work and reference checks.

• We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore, we would urge you to apply as soon as possible.