Job Description:

Lead Electrical Engineer - Sustaining

📍 Clevedon/Bristol (Hybrid)
💰 Salary: Up to £53,000 per annum
💼 Permanent | Full-Time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Lead Electrical Engineer to join a highly innovative engineering organisation supporting advanced technology products used across global industrial and manufacturing sectors.

Reporting to the Technical Programme Manager, you will provide technical leadership across sustaining engineering activities, ensuring robust electrical design standards, effective problem-solving, and product lifecycle support. You'll play a key role in factory support, obsolescence management, engineering change, field upgrades, and continuous product improvement.

Key Responsibilities as a Lead Electrical Engineer:

• Lead electrical engineering activities across sustaining engineering projects.
• Chair and participate in design reviews, ensuring compliance, safety, and quality standards.
• Provide technical leadership on complex engineering problems and product improvements.
• Drive root cause investigations and corrective actions for field and manufacturing issues.
• Ensure engineering solutions are standardised, modular, and reusable where possible.
• Lead verification, validation, and testing activities.
• Support engineering change management and configuration control processes.
• Mentor and develop Electrical Engineers across the business.
• Promote engineering best practice and adoption of new technologies.

About You as a Lead Electrical Engineer:

• Degree qualified in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• Significant experience within sustaining engineering, product support, or product lifecycle management.
• Strong background in electrical system design, verification, and compliance.
• Experience leading technical investigations and implementing engineering change.
• Knowledge of structured problem-solving methodologies such as 8D, Six Sigma, or Kepner-Tregoe.
• Strong understanding of risk assessment techniques including FMEA.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Proven ability to lead technical decisions across multidisciplinary teams.

What's on Offer?

• Salary up to £53,000 per annum
• Hybrid working arrangement
• Excellent career development opportunities
• Innovative and collaborative engineering environment
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Culture focused on learning, accountability, and continuous improvement

This is a fantastic opportunity for a senior-level electrical engineer looking to combine hands-on technical expertise with leadership responsibility within a global engineering business. If you're passionate about solving complex engineering challenges and driving continuous product improvement, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today to find out more.