Electrical design engineer

Electrical Design Engineer

Location: Farnborough (Hybrid - minimum 3 days onsite per week)Contract: 6 months (likely extension)Hours: 37 per weekRate: £20.79 PAYE / £27.82 UmbrellaClearance: BPSS (completed by the Client)IR35: Inside IR35

About the Role

Our client is a leading organisation at the forefront of cutting-edge aerospace innovation. They design and develop advanced, solar-powered, high-altitude platforms that operate in the stratosphere, enabling long-endurance flight and delivering critical services for global customers across commercial and government sectors.

As an Electrical Design Engineer, you will play a vital role within a multidisciplinary engineering team, developing and delivering electrical design solutions across multiple programmes. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to highly technical projects in a rapidly growing environment, collaborating closely with engineering, production, and external partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce detailed electrical design solutions using SolidWorks Electrical.
• Develop and maintain production design records for new concepts and design changes.
• Select appropriate electrical components to meet schematic and system-level requirements.
• Act as a key point of contact for electrical design queries across engineering and production.
• Provide hands-on support to the build line to resolve emerging electrical issues.
• Support design maturity gate reviews in line with engineering processes.
• Manage design changes through established configuration and change-control processes.
• Work closely with Production and Procurement to ensure Design for Manufacture (DFM) considerations are captured early.

Required Experience & Skills

• Proven experience in aviation-focused electrical design.
• Strong proficiency in SolidWorks Electrical (essential).
• Experience with PDM systems (advantageous).
• Demonstrable ability to translate system-level requirements into complete design solutions.
• Experience resolving emergent electrical issues and developing practical solutions.
• ONC/HND or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or similar (experience valued over formal qualifications).

If you think this could be a new and exciting career opportunity for you and you would like to learn more or just for an initial, no-obligation conversation please contact me on or you can apply directly by following the Easy Apply link and I will contact you as soon as I receive your contact details.

This vacancy is being advertised by Belcan