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.
