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Barnstaple site with hybrid working
Engineering

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
 
At our core, we encourage innovation, flexibility and out-of-the-box thinking to solve problems, so we’re always looking for talented, flexible, and creative people to bring their best to SEA. In return we offer generous rewards, a fantastic work/life balance, and excellent career and training opportunities for everyone who joins. Have a look at the benefits 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.

If you’d like to know more, please give Dave from our Talent Acquisition Team a call on +44 3330 414172. Or reach out to us on [email protected]

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