Lead Electrical Engineer - Sustaining

Lead Electrical Engineer – Sustaining
Salary: Up to £63,000 per annum (DOE)
Location: Clevedon (Hybrid working available)
Industry: Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Product Lifecycle Support


Overview

We are seeking an experienced Lead Electrical Engineer – Sustaining to provide strategic technical leadership across the sustaining engineering function. This role supports both Product Company operations and Service divisions, ensuring robust engineering governance, consistent standards, and high-quality technical delivery across the full product lifecycle.
You will play a key role in ensuring safe, compliant, and serviceable electrical design solutions across factory support, obsolescence management, and field upgrade programmes, protecting in-service performance and customer value.


Key Responsibilities:


Technical Leadership & Governance
 

• Provide strategic technical leadership across sustaining engineering activities
• Chair and assure design reviews, ensuring robust engineering decision-making
• Define and maintain electrical engineering approaches across sustaining programmes
• Ensure consistent application of engineering standards, governance, and best practice

Engineering Delivery & Problem Solving
 

• Lead investigation of complex field issues and drive corrective engineering actions
• Apply structured problem-solving techniques (e.g. 8D, Kepner-Tregoe, Six Sigma)
• Own technical aspects of system/subsystem design including risk identification and mitigation
• Ensure engineering change is correctly controlled through configuration management processes

Design Assurance & Validation
 

• Accountable for safety and type testing of systems/subsystems
• Define and oversee verification and validation activities (test and analysis)
• Review and approve technical reports ensuring compliance to requirements, standards, and directives
• Apply risk assessment methods including FMEA

Cross-Functional Influence
 

• Work collaboratively across engineering, manufacturing, service, and programme teams
• Influence technical decisions without direct authority across multiple stakeholders
• Ensure clarity of work packages, deliverables, and engineering expectations

Capability Development
 

• Mentor and coach electrical engineers across all levels
• Support development of future Lead Engineers
• Promote adoption of best practice and emerging engineering technologies

Skills & Experience Required:
 

• Degree in Engineering or related discipline (essential)
• Significant experience in sustaining engineering / product lifecycle support (essential)
• Strong background in engineering change, configuration control, and technical documentation
• Experience in structured problem solving and root cause analysis (8D, Six Sigma, etc.)
• Strong analytical skills with ability to drive root cause and corrective action
• Ability to influence across multidisciplinary teams without direct authority
• Experience in verification, validation, and risk-based engineering decision making
• Strong communication skills with ability to simplify complex technical issues
• Deep technical expertise in electrical engineering with broader systems understanding

In Return, You Will Receive:


Financial & Security
 

• Bonus up to 7.5% of basic annual salary
• Pension with company contribution of up to 8%
• Life assurance of 4 x basic salary

Health & Wellbeing
 

• Cash health plan
• Thriving Wellbeing Programme supporting physical, mental, and social wellbeing
• Discounted gym memberships

Time Off
 

• 25 days holiday (excluding Bank Holidays)

On-site Facilities
 

• Free parking
• Ample cycle storage, lockers, and showers
• Subsidised canteen
• Dedicated wellbeing and prayer room

Apply
If this role sounds of interest please click apply to send your CV, or contact Kirk at Pertemps, Bristol.