Principal Electronics and Electrical Engineer at Ultra Maritime | England, GB | Rezi

Principal Electronics and Electrical Engineer at Ultra Maritime

Principal Electronics and Electrical Engineer

Ultra Maritime · England, GB

1 months ago

Principal Electronics and Electrical Engineer

Ultra Maritime · England, GB

2 months ago
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About the Role

Ultra Maritime is a global leader in advanced maritime defence solutions, operating at the forefront of innovation to deliver technologies that protect lives, secure nations, and enable a safer, more sustainable world.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver Electronic Design, contributing to the definition, development, and implementation of reliable, high integrity electronics for defence and aerospace applications.
  • Support architectural development and detailed design activities, including schematic capture, PCB layout input, hardware prototyping, and qualification support.
  • Lead or participate in design reviews (PDR, CDR, etc.) to ensure compliance with performance, environmental, EMC/EMI, and safety requirements.
  • Ensure engineering deliverables meet quality expectations, certification requirements, and customer standards.
  • Promote Design for Cost, Test, Manufacture, Support, and Reliability across all design activities.
  • Collaborate with manufacturing, production, and systems engineering to optimize design robustness and manufacturability.
  • Provide day-to-day technical leadership to engineers across the Electronic and Electrical discipline.
  • Mentor junior and senior engineers, support professional registration pathways, and help build a high-performance, inclusive engineering culture.
  • Contribute to the evolution of engineering processes, tools, and governance frameworks.
  • Drive improvements in design quality, engineering discipline maturity, and adherence to high technical standards.
  • Support recruitment, induction, and development activities to strengthen team capabilities.
  • Help identify future skill needs and contribute to capability development plans aligned with business growth.
  • Work closely with Systems, Software, Mechanical, Production, and Programme Management teams to ensure aligned and integrated engineering delivery.
  • Contribute to technical elements of bids, proposals, and customer engagements.
  • Provide technical oversight across project phases, ensuring risks, issues, dependencies, and engineering priorities are clearly understood and managed.
  • Support compliance with export controls, safety standards, and defence accreditation requirements.

Requirements

  • Eligible to achieve the relevant security vetting level applicable to the role.
  • Must undergo Baseline Personnel Security Standard Check (BPSS) as a minimum.
  • Some roles will require further national security vetting checks.
  • Candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years.
  • Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided.

Skills

  • Strong domain knowledge and experience delivering complex electronic solutions within aerospace or defence environments.
  • Demonstrable experience delivering complex, multi-layer board designs, FPGA and microprocessor-based systems, high-reliability power supplies, and signal conditioning circuits for demanding environments.
  • Builds trust and fosters inclusive, psychologically safe teams.
  • Recognised for mentoring engineering talent and promoting diversity of thought, encouraging professional growth and recognises individual contributions.
  • Strong interpersonal skills.
  • Confident in representing internal and external stakeholder interests, especially in customer-focused environments.
  • Advocates for continuous improvement and encourages creativity across teams.
  • Organised and quality focused.
  • Ensures robust processes and timely delivery across multiple priorities.
  • Able to work effectively in dynamic environments.
  • Manages priorities while maintaining focus on business outcomes.

Location

  • United Kingdom

Work Type

  • Hybrid working for certain job roles

Experience Level

  • Principal

Education Level

  • Masters / Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Chartered Engineer (CEng) preferred, or able to achieve chartered status.

Benefits

  • Optional 9 day fortnight
  • TOIL
  • Flexible working hours
  • 1pm finish on a Friday
  • Annual bonus – dependent on level (Non-managers = 5%, Managers = 10%)
  • Casual dress
  • 25 days holiday
  • Christmas shut down – use three days of annual leave to cover this
  • Option to buy or sell holiday.
  • Option to purchase private health care, dental, critical illness etc via salary sacrifice.
  • Reward hub - discounts at over 200 online stores
  • 4 x annual salary life cover
  • Pension starting at 5% Employer / 4% Employee (employee contribution level from 4% to 70%)

About the Company

  • Ultra Maritime is a global leader in advanced maritime defence solutions.
  • We operate at the forefront of innovation, delivering technologies that protect lives, secure nations, and enable a safer, more sustainable world.
  • Ultra Maritime embraces the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation.
  • We strive to build an open, inclusive workplace where ideas flourish and every individual can make a meaningful impact.
  • Ultra Maritime is partnering with a third-party recruitment provider, Morson Edge (part of the Morson Group), to manage this hiring process.

Equal Opportunity

  • Our commitment to diversity and inclusion
  • If you need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let the recruitment lead managing your application know.