Lead Electrical Engineer – Sustaining
Location: United Kingdom (Bristol)
Company: Edwards Ltd
Functional area: Engineering
Date posted: Jun 9, 2026
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic technical leadership across the Sustaining Engineering function, supporting both Product Company Clevedon and the Service Division.
- Ensure consistent application of engineering standards, robust design governance, and high-quality technical outputs across sustaining programmes.
- Work across factory support, obsolescence management, and field upgrade initiatives, driving safe, compliant, and serviceable design solutions that protect in-service performance and customer value.
- Chair and assure design reviews, set and maintain electrical engineering approaches for sustaining projects, and ensure solutions are aligned and repeatable.
- Use engineering tools and methods to bring clarity from ambiguity and meet Requirements, Standards, Directives, and cost-effectiveness.
- Collaborate and influence engineering teams to clarify work packages, deliverables, and resolve issues.
- Account for technical elements of product system/subsystem design, identify risks, control and mitigation actions, and escalating issues when necessary.
- Incorporate modularity and standardisation to maximise reuse of engineering effort.
- Account for safety and type testing, verifying compliance and approving relevant reports.
- Mentor and coach a core team of Electrical Engineers at all levels towards becoming Lead Electrical Engineers.
- Advocate and lead adoption of best practice electrical engineering and new technologies across projects.
Qualifications
- Educated to Degree level (or equivalent experience) in a relevant Engineering/Science discipline (Essential).
- Formal training or practical experience in problem solving/root cause analysis (e.g., 8D, Kepner‑Tregoe, Six Sigma) (Desirable).
- Significant experience in sustaining engineering/product lifecycle support, including investigation of field issues and delivery of corrective actions through engineering change (Essential).
- Proven ability to work across multiple engineering disciplines and stakeholders, influencing technical decisions without direct authority (Essential).
- Experience applying structured problem solving, risk assessment, and verification thinking to resolve complex technical issues (Essential).
- Deep technical competence in one or more relevant engineering disciplines with the ability to rapidly understand adjacent domains (Essential).
- Excellent problem‑solving and analytical skills; ability to use data to drive root cause and define pragmatic corrective actions (Essential).
- Strong understanding of engineering change, configuration control, and technical documentation practices (Essential).
- Ability to plan and execute verification activities (test, analysis) and assess risk using appropriate methods (e.g., FMEA) (Essential).
- Excellent influencing skills and ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to mixed audiences (Essential).
Benefits
- Culture of trust and accountability
- Lifelong learning and career growth
- Innovation powered by people
- Comprehensive compensation and benefits
- Health and well‑being
This role offers a hybrid working arrangement, allowing you to split your time between working remotely and being on‑site at our office in Bristol, United Kingdom (GB).
