Senior Electrical Design Engineer

Cirrus Selection Limited; Ampthill; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4-day working week

Bonus

Pension

Job summary

Cirrus Selection Limited seeks a Senior Electrical Design Engineer to own electrical subsystems for defence platforms in harsh environments. The role requires DV clearance or eligibility and is full-time on site in Bedfordshire.

You will manage derating, EMC thinking, lab testing, and documentation using Zuken, Harnware or Windchill. You will collaborate across planning, procurement and change control with the Design Team Lead.

Qualifications

• Formal electrical qualification (HNC/HND or BEng) required.
• Experience in electrical hardware design for harsh environments.
• Ability to perform derating, stress and tolerance analysis.
• Experience with electrical CAD or harness design tools.

Responsibilities

• Own electrical and electronic subsystems design from trade studies to sign-off.
• Work through phase-gate process with derating, EMC and verification.
• Write documentation: requirements, compliance evidence and test reports.
• Support planning, procurement, material control and change control as needed.
• Work on-site with DV clearance or eligibility to obtain it.

Skills

Electrical design

Harsh environments

Derating

EMC analysis

Lab testing

DV clearance

Schematic design

Education

HNC/HND/BEng

Tools

Zuken E3.series

Harnware

Windchill

Job description

Senior Electrical Design Engineer

Based in Bedfordshire

Salary from £50,000 to £62,000 (DOE) + 4-day working week, Bonus, Pension

If you're looking for a role where you will own the design, from the first trade study to the moment the customer signs it off, keep reading.

You will take ownership of electrical and electronic subsystems for defence platforms built to survive harsh environments. Sometimes that means bespoke design, sometimes it means pulling together the right COTS parts into a solution that is robust, compliant and actually buildable. Low and high-power DC systems, wiring harnesses, circuit protection, the lot.

You will work to a structured phase-gate process, shaping the functional and physical requirements that hold an integrated design together, then proving it. That means derating, stress and tolerance analysis, EMC thinking at product and circuit level, and getting hands-on in the lab to test, debug and evaluate your designs through assembly, integration and test.

You will write the documentation that goes with it, trade studies, requirements, compliance evidence and test reports, and you will be using Zuken, Harnware and Windchill, or tools like them, to do it.

This is not a heads-down, stay in your lane job either. You will support planning, procurement, material control and change control where the programme needs it, reporting to the Design Team Lead.

This role needs someone who holds DV clearance, or is eligible to obtain it, and it is full-time on site. If that rules you out, no hard feelings, but it is not negotiable.

What you will need:

• A formal electrical qualification, HNC, HND or BEng
• Electrical hardware design and product development experience for harsh environments
• Derating, stress and tolerance analysis on electrical designs
• Electrical CAD or harness design tools, Zuken (E3.series) or Harnware ideally
• Low and high power DC electrical system or sub-assembly design
• EMC awareness at product and circuit level
• Working knowledge of Def-Stan or Mil standards, plus safety and quality processes
• Hands on lab experience, test equipment and electrical circuit debug
• Support for assembly, integration and test
• DV clearance, or eligibility to obtain it, plus the ability to work full time on site

Nice to have:

• Windchill or another PLM tool
• Wiring harness and circuit protection design experience
• Exposure to planning, procurement or change control on defence programmes