Senior Electrical Design Engineer - Landpower Systems

J C Bamford Excavators Ltd; Cheadle; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday

Pension

Onsite gym

In-house doctor and dentist

ULEV car scheme

JCB Rewards Hub

Cycle to Work Scheme

Job summary

J C Bamford Excavators Ltd (JCB) is seeking a Principal/Senior Engineer to lead electrical design work for the Landpower/Fastrac platform. You will drive schematics, harness design, and component release while collaborating with the India design team to meet programme milestones.

With 3–5 years in Tier 1 or OEM environments and a degree in electronics, you will contribute to design excellence, documentation accuracy and quality systems across global teams.

Qualifications

• Educated to HND or Degree level in an electronics-based discipline.
• Experience in electrical schematic and harness design.
• Hands-on CAD experience and use of harness design tools.

Responsibilities

• Support Electrical design for Landpower products in line with JCB processes.
• Assist schematic and harness design activities, directly or via Landpower EDS team.
• Produce and manage drawing creation and release plans aligned with project timings.
• Define, document, release and sign-off electrical components with suppliers and purchasing teams.
• Collaborate with the India Design team to ensure alignment and delivery.
• Maintain robust records of designs, revisions and updates per JCB standards.
• Promote reuse of components, architectures and design approaches for efficiency.
• Collaborate with broader engineering teams to integrate EDS within the product.
• Support problem solving with root cause analysis, risk assessments and FMEA.
• Ensure best practice in E&E component placement and harness routing across designs.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of processes, tools and quality systems.

Skills

Electrical design

Schematic/harness design

CAD software

Communication

Documentation

Education

HND/Degree in electronics

Tools

CAD tools

Harness design tools

Job description

J C Bamford Excavators Ltd (JCB) is seeking a Principal/Senior Engineer to lead electrical design work for the Landpower/Fastrac platform. You will drive schematics, harness design, and component release while collaborating with the India design team to meet programme milestones.

With 3–5 years in Tier 1 or OEM environments and a degree in electronics, you will contribute to design excellence, documentation accuracy and quality systems across global teams.