Lead Electronics Engineer

Ontic, a leading licensor and manufacturer of complex engineering parts for the global aerospace and defence industries, are now recruiting for a Mechanical Engineer to join our Engineering team where you'll support us in ensuring the ongoing integrity, performance and compliance of our products across their full lifecycle. This role will be based at our Bishops Cleeve site.

Ontic is more than just a business, we're a community of innovators who pride ourselves on fostering a culture where talent thrives, ideas flourish, and careers are built. We're 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.

Our Engineering Team is highly collaborative, so strong communication and relationship-building skills are essential. We’re seeking a proactive problem-solver with the confidence, knowledge, and judgement to act as a key decision-maker within the team.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Providing 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:

At Ontic, our culture is central to how we work, collaborate, and deliver for our customers. Alongside the right technical expertise, we’re looking for someone who will thrive in a culture built on recognition, empowerment, and continuous improvement.

As a subject matter expert, this role offers an exciting opportunity to provide technical leadership, mentor and guide a dedicated team, and play a significant part in driving engineering excellence across the business.

You’ll be an experienced Electronics Engineer with a background in digital and/or analogue design or evaluation within a reliability-critical environment. A degree (or equivalent experience) in Electronics Engineering  with demonstrable experience in a Lead or senior technical role within design or manufacturing.

Strong understanding of design verification and validation principles with experience approving design changes and participating in critical design reviews, Root Cause Analysis and corrective action expertise. CAD literacy (Altium & Windchill preferred) alongside 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 + 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, you'll enjoy a career with us!