Senior Electrical Engineer

About The Role

Engineered to Protect, that’s our promise, we protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world. As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you'll lead the design and development of advanced electrical systems for Defence applications, providing technical leadership across the engineering lifecycle to deliver innovative, reliable, and mission-critical solutions.

The Senior Electrical Engineer will be based at our Barnstaple site. This role does require being onsite 2 to 3 days per week to support product development, design reviews, and collaboration activities.

The salary for this role is up to £60k, depending on experience.

What you'll be doing

• Lead the design and support of complex electrical systems, ensuring compliance with performance, safety, EMC, and defence standards while delivering high-quality engineering solutions throughout the product lifecycle.
• Collaborate with systems, software, mechanical engineering teams and ensure successful delivery against project requirements, schedules, and quality objectives.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers, drive continuous improvement initiatives, support design reviews, and promote best practices in design-for-excellence, manufacturability, and product support

About our company

At SEA, we develop and deliver advanced solutions to make our world safer, cleaner and more efficient. We provide state-of-the-art applications for naval ship and fleet protection, and undersea surveillance systems. In-service across the globe, our systems deliver a rapid response to threats and system effectiveness and interoperation. Our systems support an ever-growing number of navies across the world, and we continue to bolster our already specialist, on-the-ground knowledge of key overseas markets.

What we offer

Work life balance

• Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
• 25 days’ annual leave, plus buy and sell
• Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
• Half day Fridays
• Reservists in the Armed Forces receive special paid leave

Family & wellbeing

• Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
• Health Cash Plan
• All Staff Bonus
• Group Pension Plan of up to 8% employer contribution
• Cycle to work scheme
• Wellbeing Centre
• Sports & Social activities
• Employee Discounts portal - online and in-store discounts, travel savings
• Life assurance policy
• Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
• Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learning

Facilities & resources

• Electric vehicle charging points at all sites
• Private seated lunch areas
• Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages
• Onsite showers and toiletries provision
• Free onsite parking

Join us and be part of something smaller - with 500 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters.

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