Ontic, a leading licensor and manufacturer of complex engineering parts for the global aerospace and defence industries, are now recruiting for a Lead Electronics Engineer to join our growing Engineering team based at our Bishops Cleeve site.
Ontic is a more than just a business, were a community of innovators who pride ourselves on fostering a culture where talent thrives, ideas flourish, and careers are built. Were committed to excellence, driving us to continuously improve and adapt, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of our industry.
The Role
As Lead Electronics Engineer, you will be responsible for the sustainment of a diverse portfolio of complex aerospace electronic products across their full lifecycle — from NPI through to retirement.
Acting as a subject matter expert, you will provide technical leadership, support cross-functional teams, and ensure products continue to meet stringent reliability, safety and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Provide electronic engineering expertise to internal and external stakeholders across the product lifecycle
Ensure continued product conformance to design through review and adherence to technical documentation
Assess and approve alternative components in response to obsolescence and supply chain challenges
Lead and approve engineering changes through formal ECN processes
Play a key role in redesign and product improvement projects, balancing technical, quality, cost and schedule requirements
Lead root cause investigations and implement effective corrective actions
Produce high-quality technical documentation and engineering reports
Support obsolescence and counterfeit mitigation strategies alongside Component Engineering
Mentor and coach graduates and junior engineers, fostering capability development within the team
About You:
You’ll be an experienced Electronics Engineer with a background in digital and/or analogue design or evaluation within a reliability-critical environment.
You will also bring:
A degree (or equivalent experience) in Electronics Engineering
Demonstrable experience in a Lead or senior technical role within design or manufacturing
Strong understanding of design verification and validation principles
Experience approving design changes and participating in critical design reviews
Root Cause Analysis and corrective action expertise
CAD literacy (Altium & Windchill preferred)
Knowledge of applicable aerospace or regulated industry standards
Experience within aerospace or another highly regulated sector is strongly preferred. Exposure to RF design or evaluation would be advantageous, but not essential.
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
We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, youll enjoy a career with us!
