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Senior Electrical Design Engineer
Employer: Diagonal J
Location: Hemel Hempstead
Salary: 55,000.00 - 75,000.00 GBP Annual + Bonus, Car & additional holiday
Closing date: 8 Sep 2026
Specialist area: Design
Function: Engineer
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
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SENIOR ELECTRICAL DESIGN ENGINEER
Do you like defining and designing solutions to complex engineering challenges?
Would you relish autonomy and responsibility for cradle-to-grave projects?
Have you enjoyed working in a safety critical sector such as Oil & Gas, Energy, High Integrity Instrumentation, Defence, Aerospace or similar?
Our client seeks a Senior Electrical Design Engineer to deliver turnkey projects in bespoke electrical and instrumentation systems for aero engine testing and development.
THE ROLE
This is real hands-on problem solving engineering, involving interesting and complex work in an exciting sector. On offer is a competitive package with a well-established and highly respected independent business that boasts exceptional staff retention and team stability.
Key Skills Required
- Understanding of project engineering from concept to handover
- Knowledge of safety critical engineering / high integrity sectors
- Electrical Design, including full schematics and BOMs
- Instrumentation, calibration and measurement systems
- Sensors, transducers and associated instrumentation
- FAT, SAT & Commissioning
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Benefits
- Up to 75,000 basic salary
- Company Car
- Annual bonus
- Generous Holiday Allowance
- Long-term career stability
- Opportunity to work on technically challenging and bespoke projects
- Occasional international travel
About You
You should enjoy solving practical engineering problems and having autonomy for projects through their full lifecycle. The consequence of engineering failure should be at the heart of a safety critical mindset and reflect in the attention to detail in your solutions definitions and electrical design. You should also be prepared for some overseas travel for the purpose of commissioning your work on site with customers.
In addition to the key skills above, the following would be advantageous:
- AutoCAD electrical
- NI Signal Conditioning / Data Acquisition
- NI LabVIEW software
- Vibration Systems Knowledge
- Previous or current SC security clearance
Applicants may currently be working as Electrical Design Engineers, EC&I Engineers, Instrumentation Engineers, Controls & Instrumentation Engineers, Test Systems Engineers, Project Engineers or similar within aerospace, defence, oil & gas, energy, scientific instrumentation or other highly regulated engineering environments.


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About The Company
Our client is a highly respected specialist engineering business designing and delivering bespoke test and development systems for the aerospace sector. They have been established for 36 years and have built a world-wide reputation and a long standing international customer base. They boast exceptional staff retention and team stability; this vacancy has arisen due to the retirement of a long-serving senior engineer.
Diagonal J Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
We are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment process and welcome applications from all qualified individuals. Selection decisions are made solely on the basis of skills, experience and suitability for the role.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will be happy to discuss how we can support you.
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