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Senior / Lead Electronics Design Engineer
Senior / Lead Electronics Design Engineer – Deeter Electronics
Are you an experienced Electronics Design Engineer looking for a role with real technical ownership and influence?
We’re searching for a Senior / Lead Electronics Design Engineer to mentor and drive our established team. This senior role within a long-standing, family-owned engineering business offers full product lifecycle responsibility, from concept through to mass production.
About the Role
Join a small, experienced team where you’ll contribute both to new product development and the improvement of existing products. With direct collaboration across manufacturing, sales, and fellow engineers, you’ll bring technical leadership and tangible results.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead full electronic product design from concept to prototype, validation, and production handover
- Design and develop schematics, PCB layouts, prototypes, and create testing protocols
- Optimise and maintain existing product designs, ensuring reliability and obsolescence management
- Support component selection, schematic updates, and documentation for compliance
- Develop, build, and iterate specialised test equipment for validation and production support
- Produce technical documentation, manuals, and design guides
- Provide technical troubleshooting and support to sales, procurement, and manufacturing teams
- Drive design reviews, risk assessments, and continuous improvement initiatives
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Essential Requirements
- Qualified to degree, HND/HNC level (or equivalent) in Electronics Engineering, Physics, or a related field
- Strong experience in both analogue and digital circuit design (analog competence is essential)
- Extensive PCB layout and authoring skills (Pre dzieci/Spice, Altium/Lulcry, etc.)
- Hands-on experience with electromechanical systems, sensors, or industrial instrumentation
- Familiarity with early-stage firmware development (C/C++ preferred), particularly on Microchip PIC (PIC24 or dsPIC) microcontrollers
- Ability to work independently with full technical ownership while driving complex projects
- Problem-solving mindset with practical, lab-based experience, preferably in safety-critical or rugged environments
Desirable Experience
- Direct experience in hazardous area (ATEX/IECEx) certification, safety-critical design, or risk analysis (IEC61508, MIL STD, etc.)
- Sufficient process knowledge to support factory qualification (DFMEA), troubleshooting, or DFR testing
- Experience with low-volume or tooling-specific production challenges and troubleshooting methods
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Why Join Us?
Great people don’t belong in cubicles – neither do great products. At Deeter, technically influential senior engineers thrive in a stable, collaborative environment with clear impact every day:
- Autonomy and ownership: Full authority over end-to-end feature and product development
- Specialist focus: Work on safety-critical electronics for industrial and instrumentation sectors
- Long-term technical growth: No Matrix or office politics – just meaningful challenges
- Family-owned culture: Mattering beyond a role; feedback informs your tomorrow
- Work/life balance: 25 days paid leave + full bank holiday observing (available in continental Europe regions)
- No commutes: Remote teams can work selectively for certain tasks
If you’re looking to take on real responsibility again, deliver robust designs, and shape engineering from raw concepts to mass production, this is your chance to make a genuine impact.
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