Engineering Team Lead – Electrical Control & Instrumentation
Westhill with Hybrid Working
Full-Time, Permanent
Please note that this role requires security checks.
The Role:
As an Engineering Team Lead, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping cutting-edge design solutions across our dynamic product portfolio. From concept development to end-of-life, you’ll drive the entire engineering lifecycle, ensuring every solution is robust, innovative, and impactful.
This is more than a technical role—it’s a leadership opportunity to inspire and guide a talented team, delivering engineering excellence that aligns with JFD’s strategic vision. You’ll champion safety, quality, and compliance while balancing cost and schedule to achieve outstanding results. If you’re passionate about pushing boundaries and leading with purpose, this is your chance to make a real difference.
What you’ll be doing:
- Lead and Inspire: Manage and mentor an engineering team, driving performance, development, and resource planning while ensuring compliance with internal and external standards.
- Technical Authority: Provide leadership and design input across the full engineering lifecycle, owning technical approvals and ensuring safe, compliant solutions.
- Deliver Excellence: Oversee engineering scope, budgets, schedules, and reporting, including resource planning, performance tracking, and corrective actions.
- Collaborate Across Functions: Partner with sales, supply chain, production, HSEQS, and bids teams to deliver accurate technical specifications and solutions.
- Champion Safety & Compliance: Manage system safety reviews, risk registers, and mitigation plans, ensuring adherence to safety policies and regulatory requirements.
- Drive Innovation & Best Practice: Work with product line leaders on roadmaps, share resources with peers, and continuously improve processes and capabilities.
What we’re looking for:
- Degree-qualified in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or equivalent industry experience; chartered status desirable.
- Strong expertise in electrical design, including HV/LV systems, control systems using PLCs, and analogue/digital circuit design.
- Proven experience with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools for engineering documentation and compliance.
- In-depth knowledge of IEC 61508 for safety-critical programmable systems.
- Extensive experience in Saturation Diving System design, including life support, power, communications, and decompression systems.
- Thorough understanding of industry codes and standards (Lloyds, DNV, ABS, IMCA, UK & International wiring standards).
Why join us?
- Early finish on Fridays
- Competitive salary and benefits package aligned with experience (Private Medical Insurance, Life Assurance, Cycle to work scheme, Company Pension, etc.)
- Clear pathways for career development and organisational visibility
- Inclusive and supportive culture that values individual contributions
- Meaningful work with impact across safety, innovation, and global operations
About Us:
James Fisher is a global engineering services company operating across Energy, Defence, and Maritime Transport. With a strong heritage in maritime operations, we now deliver innovative solutions in challenging environments. Our One James Fisher strategy is focused on building a unified, sustainable business within the Blue Economy, driving progress through technology, expertise, and collaboration.
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James Fisher Defence (JFD), part of the James Fisher Group, is a global leader in underwater capability, delivering cutting-edge diving, submarine rescue, and hyperbaric solutions to both commercial and defence markets. Operating worldwide, JFD is the foremost provider of submarine rescue services and a trusted name in submarine escape training. We’re also at the forefront of hyperbaric rescue innovation and a leading supplier of advanced diving equipment and saturation systems across the industry. Explore more about JFD
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Due to the volume of applications, we receive for our vacancies, on occasion applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.
James Fisher and Sons are committed to taking positive action on diversity and strongly encourage applications for candidates from all backgrounds. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and recognise that our success depends on our talented and diverse workforce.