Electrical Design Engineer

• Salary: £45,000- £55,000
• Full Time
• Permanent

Who we are:

Sub Sea Craft is a fast growing, privately-funded, UK-based innovative maritime technology company specialising in next-generation, high-performance watercraft and systems. We operate at the intersection of advanced engineering, cutting-edge design, and user-centric innovation, delivering safe, effective, and enabling solutions for both commercial and defence applications.

What we offer:

• Annual Leave – Entitlement to 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Wellbeing Day - An additional Wellbeing Day each year to focus on personal health and wellbeing.
• Private Healthcare – Access to comprehensive private healthcare coverage to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
• Life Assurance and Critical Illness Cover – Comprehensive protection including Life Assurance (4x salary) and Critical Illness Cover for added financial security.
• Family Leave – Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Christmas Leave – A Christmas shutdown is typically observed.
• Professional Development – Commitment to ongoing learning and career growth, supported by training programmes and access to Linked In Learning.
• Pension Contribution – pension scheme with the option to contribute via salary sacrifice
• Flexible Working – Opportunities for flexible working arrangements to promote work–life balance.
• Inclusive Culture – A professional environment that values diversity, innovation, and collaboration.

Responsibilities will include:

• Assist with the production of new electrical designs from concept through to final manufacture.
• Undertaking design validation via calculation for electrical systems and equipment.
• Applying analysis outputs to demonstrate compliance with safety, functional and performance requirements.
• Liaising with test facilities, sub-contractors, suppliers and customers as required to satisfy the needs of a project.
• Undertaking testing of designed systems with a hands‑on approach.
• Work in our on‑site test facility to produce prototype set ups to verify electrical designs.
• Knowledge of the systems engineering lifecycle and an ability to apply good systems engineering practices to your work.
• Executing duties in accordance with Company procedures for training, health and safety, personnel, quality, and project requirements.
• Controlled issuing of drawings for production.
• Work with specialist subject areas including pressurised air and gas systems, hydraulic systems, and cooling systems.
• Assist with the team to compile/collate vessel electrical test documents for first of class build.
• Assist with production of Bill of Materials/part creation.

Qualifications and

Experience:

• Marine electrical background with minimum of 5 years industry experience or a degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Experience working with 3D CAD systems is advantageous but not critical.
• Maritime experience is a plus, but whatever your track record, high levels of technical expertise, personal drive and strong communication skills are particularly important.
• Experience with preparing and design specifications.
• Hazardous Voltages and CAN Bus experience is advantageous but not critical.
• Working with a close‑knit team in design and development.
• Well‑developed engineering skills with a strong understanding of electrical systems.
• Build, test and commissioning experience.
• A proactive individual with strong commitment and self‑motivation.
• Willingness to embrace innovation and creativity – Lateral thinking is encouraged.

Note:

Due to the nature of work undertaken at Sub Sea Craft, the selected candidate must be capable of meeting the security requirements of the position, which would include as a minimum existing right to live and work in the UK, Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), with UK National security clearance required for certain roles.*

Values:
Our people are our greatest asset, we continually strive to provide an excellent working environment to enable our team to do their best work. We have an agile professional workforce: weare founded on the belief that our people are valued and our business is trusted, inclusive and commercially-adept.

What we expect from you:

• Teamwork, mutual respect and collaboration
• Initiative and…