Job Description
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