Ontic, a leading licensor and manufacturer of complex engineering parts for the global aerospace and defence industries, are now recruiting for an Electronics Engineer or Lead Electronics Engineer to join our Engineering team, where you'll support us in ensuring the ongoing integrity, performance and compliance of our products throughout their lifecycle. This role will be based at our Bishops Cleeve site.
Ontic is more than just a business, we're a community of innovators who pride ourselves on fostering a culture where talent thrives, ideas flourish, and careers are built. We're committed to excellence, driving us to continuously improve and adapt, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of our industry.
The Role:
As an Electronics Engineer at Ontic, you'll provide engineering support across a diverse portfolio of aerospace products, supporting them throughout their lifecycle from New Product Introduction (NPI) through to in-service support and eventual retirement.
Working closely with teams across the business, including Operations, Quality, Supply Chain and Component Engineering, you'll help solve technical challenges and maintain product design integrity. Your work could include supporting engineering changes and redesign activities, investigating technical issues, evaluating alternative components, completing root cause investigations and helping to resolve component obsolescence and other supply chain challenges.
You'll also have the opportunity to review schematic diagrams and technical data, support testing and design verification and validation, and produce technical documentation and reports. It's a varied role where you'll be able to apply your engineering judgement while continuing to develop your technical experience.
We're also open to considering candidates at Lead Electronics Engineer level. If you bring greater depth of electronics engineering experience and are ready to take on additional technical responsibility and provide technical leadership, we'd be interested in hearing from you.
About you:
At Ontic, our culture is integral to making sure we enjoy our work and deliver for our customers. While we look for the right skillset, we're also looking for someone who will thrive within our recognition and empowerment culture.
To be successful in this role, you'll ideally bring:
- A degree or equivalent experience in Electronics Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- Experience within an electronics design, manufacturing, technical support or product engineering environment; aerospace or another regulated industry would be advantageous.
- Experience in digital and/or analogue electronics design or evaluation, with the ability to interpret schematic diagrams and understand original design intent.
- Knowledge or experience of testing, design verification and validation, engineering changes and technical investigations.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including experience with root cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Experience with CAD and/or PLM systems, alongside good communication, organisation and teamwork skills. Altium and Windchill experience would be advantageous.
You don't need to have experience in every area; if you have a strong electronics engineering foundation and relevant transferable experience, we'd be interested in hearing from you. For the Lead Electronics Engineer level, we'll be looking for greater depth of relevant experience and the ability to provide technical leadership alongside these core skills.
Benefits
At Ontic we care about your financial, physical, and mental wellness so we offer a range of benefits to support this, we care about what matters to you and have a valued culture of recognition and empowerment, accompanied by benefits that support work/life balance.
Our benefits package highlights include:
- Up to 29 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- 10 hours paid volunteering time
- Annual goal share bonus scheme for all employees
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Discounts and offers from a range of retailers
Best place to work
We are more than the sum of our parts. And we’ve been recognised internally and externally for being so:
- We were ranked #9 in Best Companies’ Q3 leaderboard for Best Manufacturing Company based on our employee feedback
- 72.5% of employees who took part in our 2023 employee satisfaction survey said they are proud to work at Ontic
No day is the same at Ontic; we have doubled in size over the last couple of years and are still in rapid growth. We attribute our success to empowering colleagues to create the opportunity, fostering an environment of autonomy where we ask for forgiveness, not permission.
Our values
Our values are intrinsic to everything we do:
- We share a common sense - we’re a global family of specialists with a shared passion for precision.
- We have the freedom to choose - we’re challengers and innovators with the freedom to think differently and challenge the status quo.
- We create the opportunity - we’re change-makers with a clear direction and can-do spirit.
We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, you'll enjoy a career with us!
Electronics Engineer (Engineer or Lead Level) in Cheltenham employer: ontic
At Ontic, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a dynamic and inclusive work culture, particularly for our Managing Director role in Europe. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through tailored mentorship and the opportunity to shape our European market presence, while our focus on diversity ensures a rich tapestry of perspectives that drive innovation. With competitive benefits and a collaborative environment, Ontic is the ideal place for those looking to make a meaningful impact in the security technology sector.
