Senior Electrical Engineer - RADAR

Overview

Expleo is a global company and a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting.  We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.

Expleo Engineering UK is expanding its Electrical Engineering capability, so we are looking to recruit a Senior Electrical Engineer who is keen to progress their career with a growing company and who want to help our customers make real products. 

Working on RADAR equipment at a customer location in Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, with opportunities for hybrid working, you will be assigned to a major defence project, where your skills and experience in electrical engineering and integration will be fully utilised. 

There is a requirement to work at the clients site for 3 days per week with the remaining time on a Working From Home Basis.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities within your role will include (but not limited to):-

• Interfacing with the team to understand technical issues / specifications and requirements. 
• Translate our customers‘ vision into clear and concise user, business, and product requirements.
• Use industry standard methods to develop product architectures. Decomposing the problem into digestible functional, physical and behavioural chunks.
• Convert high-level system requirements into an electrical architecture or solution definition.
• Work collaboratively with all our engineering teams to clarify work packages, manage case studies and resolve engineering issues.
• Identify applicable standards and demonstrate how compliance will be achieved.
• Make defensible decisions relating to make or buy solutions.
• Produce Technical Specifications for supplier tender.
• Own interfaces, change impact, supplier technical engagement and integration evidence.

Qualifications

Recognised Engineering Batchelors Degree.

Essential skills

• Exhibit good technical writing skills.
• Microsoft Office Skills.  
• Be Bold; Act reliable – Make a difference and challenge convention.
• Be inquisitive - always ask ‘why?’, seek to understand the underlying principles behind all engineering problems, strive to broaden your skillset.
• Communicate & Influence - be able to articulate complex ideas and concepts verbally or in writing to anyone.
• Collaborate - actively build relationship across functional divides.
• A recognised engineering degree (or equivalent) in a related discipline.

And it would be good if you were:

• Chartered Engineer or have evidence of progress towards Professional Registration with a PEI.

Experience

• Experience in configuration management.  
• Experience in translating design information into drawing requirements. 
• Experience of design lifecycle management.
• Experience of Design Reviews.
• Experience of integrating mechanical design solutions.
• Practical, relevant experience in a product integration environment performing similar roles.
• Experience of applying hardware engineering toolsets.

What do I need before I apply

Recognising the RESTRICTED nature of the work, suitable candidates will need to be a UK National with minimum BPSS, SC Clearance will be required.

Benefits

We value our people, and we reward commitment with a competitive remuneration and flexible benefits package including:  

• Competitive starting salary.
• 25 days' holiday (+8 days Bank Holidays).
• Contributory pension scheme.
• Company sick pay at full pay.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Specsavers vouchers.
• GymFlex – Gym membership scheme and more!