Lead Electrical Engineer - Product Lifecycle . LilyLifestyle

Lead Electrical Engineer - Sustaining

Salary: Up to £63,000 per annum (DOE)

Location: Clevedon (Hybrid working available)

Industry: Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Product Lifecycle Support

We are seeking an experienced Lead Electrical Engineer - Sustaining to provide strategic technical leadership across the sustaining engineering function. This role supports both Product Company operations and Service divisions, ensuring robust engineering governance, consistent standards, and high‑quality technical delivery across the full product lifecycle. You will play a key role in ensuring safe, compliant, and serviceable electrical design solutions across factory support, obsolescence management, and field upgrade programmes, protecting in‑service performance and customer value.

• Provide strategic technical leadership across sustaining engineering activities
• Chair and assure design reviews, ensuring robust engineering decision‑making
• Define and maintain electrical engineering approaches across sustaining programmes
• Ensure consistent application of engineering standards, governance, and best practice

• Lead investigation of complex field issues and drive corrective engineering actions
• Apply structured problem‑solving techniques (e.g. 8D, Kepner‑Tregoe, Six Sigma)
• Own technical aspects of system/subsystem design including risk identification and mitigation
• Ensure engineering change is correctly controlled through configuration management processes

• Accountable for safety and type testing of systems/subsystems
• Define and oversee verification and validation activities (test and analysis)
• Review and approve technical reports ensuring compliance to requirements, standards, and directives
• Apply risk assessment methods including FMEA

• Work collaboratively across engineering, manufacturing, service, and programme teams
• Influence technical decisions without direct authority across multiple stakeholders
• Ensure clarity of work packages, deliverables, and engineering expectations

• Mentor and coach electrical engineers across all levels
• Support development of future Lead Engineers
• Promote adoption of best practice and emerging engineering technologies

• Degree in Engineering or related discipline (essential)
• Significant experience in sustaining engineering / product lifecycle support (essential)
• Strong background in engineering change, configuration control, and technical documentation
• Experience in structured problem solving and root cause analysis (8D, Six Sigma, etc.)
• Strong analytical skills with ability to drive root cause and corrective action
• Ability to influence across multidisciplinary teams without direct authority
• Experience in verification, validation, and risk‑based engineering decision making
• Strong communication skills with ability to simplify complex technical issues
• Deep technical expertise in electrical engineering with broader systems understanding

• Bonus up to 7.5% of basic annual salary
• Pension with company contribution of up to 8%
• Life assurance of 4 x basic salary

• Cash health plan
• Thriving Wellbeing Programme supporting physical, mental, and social wellbeing
• Discounted gym memberships

• 25 days holiday (excluding Bank Holidays)

• Free parking
• Ample cycle storage, lockers, and showers
• Subsidised canteen
• Dedicated wellbeing and prayer room

If this role sounds of interest please click apply to send your CV, or contact Kirk at Pertemps, Bristol.