Head of Electrical Engineering

Position: Head of Electrical Engineering

• Salary: £80,000 - £90,000
• Full Time
• Permanent

Who we are: SubSea 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 LinkedIn 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.

The Role
The Head of Electrical Engineering is the function leader for Electrical engineering, responsible for ensuring the quality and integrity of the team's output and delivering the right results on time. This role sets and enforces the expectation for how Electrical engineering is practiced within SSC through standards, practices, and a culture that values precision, ownership, and thoughtful design.

The Head of Electrical Engineering leads the integration of Electrical engineering across the business, promoting early and frequent design discussions that surface trade-offs and align thinking across interfaces. By providing context, clarity, and connection to the broader engineering and delivery landscape, this role enables the team to work effectively and efficiently, demonstrating consideration well beyond the Electrical agenda.

Responsibilities Will Include

• Define, maintain, and evolve engineering standards and practices that ensure high-quality Electrical design.
• Lead design reviews and assurance activities, focusing on effective stakeholder interactions for early detection of issues and continuous improvement.
• Provide clear context and framing for the team's work, connecting it to broader project and departmental goals and ensuring delivery against these.
• Represent Electrical Engineering in cross-functional forums and decision-making processes, supporting the business requirements for engineering input at trade shows, exhibition's and visitors.
• Facilitate clear communication between the Electrical team and other disciplines, surfacing risks, looking for mitigations and dependencies early.
• Head up the Electrical function to follow systems from requirements through design, build, commissioning and trials.
• Contribute to planning activities, ensuring that Electrical work is scoped, resourced, and sequenced effectively to support program level planning.
• Build and sustain a high-performing Electrical Engineering team through thoughtful recruitment, development, and retention.
• Ownership and technical assurance over system architecture across SubSea Craft platforms.
• Maintaining safety frame works for safe working practices in a test, commissioning and trials environment.

Qualifications And Experience

• Proven experience leading Electrical engineering teams in a complex, multidisciplinary environment.
• Strong background in Electrical design, with a track record of delivering high-quality, integrated engineering solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to define and uphold engineering standards, practices, and assurance processes.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to frame technical work in context and facilitate cross-functional dialogue.
• Experience with DC HaV systems is advantageous but not critical
• A clear understanding of control architecture including CAN Bus and Ethercat is advantageous.

Note: Due to the nature of work undertaken at SubSea 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: we are 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 independent working
• Honesty and integrity
• Business and commercial awareness
• Agility, adaptability and continuous development

We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive. If you require any support or adjustments to interact with us, please let us know.

We regret that due to the high volume of applications we are unable to acknowledge every application. Please bear in mind that if you are selected for an interview we will aim to contact you within 14 days of your application or the closing date (if stated). However, if we think that your skills and qualifications may be suitable for other similar positions we may hold your details on our database and contact you in the future. Please let us know if you do not wish us to keep your details on file.

• Please note that DBS, Driving Licence and reference checks will be carried out and all offers of employment are subject to meeting our requirements.