Electrical Design Engineer
Location: Farnborough (Hybrid - minimum 3 days onsite per week)
Contract: 6 months (likely extension)
Hours: 37 per week
Rate: £20.79 PAYE / £27.82 Umbrella
Clearance: 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 (phone number removed) 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