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A leading engineering and technology business is seeking a skilled Project Manager to join their team. Reporting to the Programme Manager, this role will take ownership of high-impact engineering and delivery programmes—managing timelines, resources, costs, and stakeholder communication to ensure successful outcomes across both customer-funded and internally driven projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the launch and delivery of assigned projects, creating core project artefacts including schedules, budgets, and resource plans.
• Maintain clear, professional communication with internal and external stakeholders. Track all decisions and meetings with commercial or operational relevance.
• Ensure compliance with contract requirements and internal processes, maintaining strong control over scope, timelines, and deliverables.
• Collaborate with operations and engineering teams to deliver both bespoke and build-to-print projects. Engage customers during key stages, including acceptance testing.
• Manage and forecast project budgets in partnership with the finance team, producing regular reports on costs, revenue, and margin forecasts.
• Identify and mitigate project risks, manage resource planning, and support adherence to design and quality standards.
• Capture lessons learned and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills & Experience Required:

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in a project management role within an engineering environment.
• Strong stakeholder management experience, including work with international customers and multi-disciplinary internal teams.
• Proficient in project planning tools such as Microsoft Project or equivalent.
• Experience producing project financial reports and forecasts.
• Eligibility for UK security clearance, including the ability to travel within the UK and abroad.

Personal Attributes:

• Organised and methodical, with a focus on detail and quality.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Confident working independently and in cross-functional teams.
• Adaptable, resilient, and able to manage competing demands.
• Committed to the company’s values of teamwork, integrity, excellence, and courage.

Holt Executive are proud to support a great opportunity for an experienced Project Scheduler to join a busy Programmes team supporting the successful delivery of complex, multi-phase engineering projects. This role involves close collaboration with Project and Programme Managers to build, maintain, and manage detailed schedules across bid and delivery phases.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage detailed schedules using Microsoft Project
• Create work breakdown structures (WBS) and define project dependencies
• Support project planning during bid stages and re-baselining during delivery
• Track progress against plans and budgets, updating schedules as required
• Liaise with stakeholders to manage resource allocation across projects
• Monitor and report project KPIs and performance metrics
• Identify risks, opportunities, assumptions and dependencies
• Ensure schedules align with project scope and strategic objectives

Essential Skills & Experience:

• 2–3+ years’ experience in project scheduling across complex, concurrent projects
• Expert-level proficiency in Microsoft Project
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies, budgeting and controls
• Experience in resource planning and stakeholder collaboration
• Background in an engineering or technical design environment

Desirable:

• Project management certification (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP)
• Experience in the defence, aerospace, or advanced manufacturing sectors

Personal Attributes:

• Highly organised and detail-oriented
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Able to work independently and collaboratively
• Flexible, conscientious and adaptable approach

Work-Life Balance & Benefits:

• Hybrid and flexible working
• Lunchtime finish on Fridays
• 28 days’ annual leave + Christmas shutdown

Security Requirements:
Due to the nature of the role, successful candidates must be able to obtain and maintain UK Security Clearance. This includes providing proof of identity, right to work, full employment history, and UK residency for the past five years.

Holt Executive are partnered with a high-tech, and highly innovative Space solutions leader that are focused on the design, development and support of electronics-based systems, spanning products for satellite simulation and test, Electrical Ground Support Equipment, TT&C, TM/TC systems, modems, and data processing systems.

Our partner is seeking a Project Manager to support all programmatic aspects of one, or multiple projects throughout their project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities for the Project Manager:

• Preparing Project Management and Development plans.
• Creating, maintaining, and oversight of project plans, for new and existing projects.
• The assignment of tasks and task monitoring.
• Oversight and control of project costs/budgets.
• Management of sub-contractors and suppliers and supporting with procurement and production processes.
• Customer interfacing, and participation in customer review meetings.
• Coordination of activities across the project teams.
• Reporting status updates to senior management.
• Oversight and maintenance of risks to the projects and potential roadblocks.
• Supporting with inputs for proposals/bids as and when required.

Key Skills & Experience for the Project Manager:

• A BSc. (or higher) in Computer Science, Aeronautics, or Electrical Engineering.
• 3+ years of experience as project leader/manager in an Electronic Systems environment.
• Experience in the management of subcontractors.
• Experience in projects relating to system development in the coordination of multi-disciplinary teams.
• Strong organisational and communication skills.
• Fluency in English.
• Experience in formal ESA documentation requirements and workflow according to ECSS would be an benefit.

The successful candidate must be legally authorized to work in the EU/EEA.

This opportunity is an onsite position in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

Holt Executive are partnered with a high-tech, and highly innovative Space solutions leader that are focused on the design, development and support of electronics-based systems, spanning products for satellite simulation and test, Electrical Ground Support Equipment, TT&C, TM/TC systems, modems, and data processing systems.

Our partner is seeking a PA/QA Engineer to join their team to take on the responsibility of ensuring their QMS (quality management system) is maintained and improved, as well as ensuring that their products and services are meeting and exceeding customer expectations in terms of quality and product assurance.

Key Responsibilities for the PA/QA Engineer:

Quality Assurance

• Maintenance of the quality management system.
• Initiating changes in the quality management system and successfully implementing the changes.
• Performance and coordination of internal audits and corrective actions.
• Coordinating and reporting quality key performance indicators to management.
• Coordinating and reporting Supplier evaluations.
• Managing deadlines for actions assigned related to the quality management system.
• Implementation of configuration management activities (documentation, hardware, software, etc)

 
Product Assurance

• Reviewing of customer requirements and ensuring that they can be/are being met.
• Preparing Product Assurance documentation.
• Preparing and managing RFD/RFW’s, NCR’s and participating in NRB/MRB’s.
• Participating in formal customer reviews (Design & Test related).
• Ensuring that manufacturing/assembly/testing processes comply with standards at internal/national and international levels.
• Interfacing with customers and suppliers.
• Supporting of external project milestone reviews.
• Coordinating configuration control processes and managing configuration baselines.

 
Key Skills & Experience for the PA/QA Engineer:

• An Engineering degree with 4+ years’ experience within Product and Quality Assurance.
• Experience with quality standards, including ISO 9001.
• Experience within the Space industry, and a working knowledge of ESA ECSS standards.
• Experience in auditing quality processes/procedures.
• Experience interfacing with customers, sub-contractors, and suppliers.
• Experience in configuration management.
• Strong organisational and communication skills.
• Fluency in English.

 
The successful candidate must be legally authorized to work in the EU/EEA.

This opportunity is an onsite position in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

Holt Executive are partnered with a high-tech, and highly innovative Space solutions leader that are focused on the design, development and support of electronics-based systems, spanning products for satellite simulation and test, Electrical Ground Support Equipment, TT&C, TM/TC systems, modems, and data processing systems.

Our partner is seeking a System Engineer to support with the analysis of requirements, system designs, and technical discussions relating to projects ranging from laser communication systems to spacecraft test and simulation systems.

Key Responsibilities for the System Engineer:

• Review and analysis of customer requirements specifications (CRS) & Statements of Work.
• System decomposition and design spanning hardware, software, and COTS.
• Supporting with input for project resourcing, planning, cost trade-offs, new developments, project risks.
• Coordination of technical discussions/meetings both internally and externally.
• Writing design documentation and test plans.
• Attending and supporting reviews with customers (e.g. PDR, CDR, TRR, etc.)
• Configuring and integrating systems.
• Producing and/or coordinating system test procedures.

Key Skills & Experience for the System Engineer:

• A degree in Optical or Electronics Engineering.
• 2+ years’ experience within Systems engineering.
• Experience and/or knowledge in SDA, CCSDS, and ECSS standards is an advantage.
• Experience and/or knowledge with lab test equipment is an advantage.
• Experience and/or knowledge in modulation and coding techniques is an advantage.
• Experience within the Space or Aerospace industry is an advantage.
• Strong organisational and communication skills.
• Fluency in English.

The successful candidate must be legally authorized to work in the EU/EEA.

This opportunity is an onsite position in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

Join our client and leverage your expertise and leadership in electronics design to make a significant impact!

Holt Executive is partnered with a leading electro-optics design and manufacturing business, seeking a Senior Electronics Engineer to join their expanding Engineering team. If you are passionate about innovation and leadership in electronics design, this role is for you.

As a Senior Electronics Engineer, you will play a key role in developing cutting-edge electronics and leading a talented team. Your expertise will drive innovation, ensuring high standards of engineering practice and project success.

Key Responsibilities for the Senior Electronics Engineer:

• Expertise in circuit design, components, and PCB technology.
• Work in EMC, Power Management, Servo Control, processor interfacing, and communications.
• Define and review overall architecture, including power management and system wiring.
• Lead by example, setting standards for good engineering practices.
• Drive innovation within the department, regularly communicating with senior management, customers, and stakeholders.
• Lead the development or enhancement of technology, providing subject matter expertise for R&D projects.
• Technical leadership of multi-disciplined projects, fostering a systematic approach and delivering solutions to customers.
• Provide insights into resource planning and support other engineers through training and development.

 
Key Skills and Experience for the Senior Electronics Engineer:

• Strong degree in a related discipline accredited by the IET, with typically 6 years of relevant experience.
• Proven experience in leading or supervising projects or teams.
• Solid theoretical and practical understanding of electrical and electronic designs.
• Ability to perform analysis-based activities such as circuit emulation and power budgets.
• Capability to assess and highlight key project risks and design activities.
• Awareness of the full project lifecycle from bid development to customer support.
• Proven track record of innovation-based approaches in engineering and leading, managing, or mentoring engineers.
• Ability to investigate and fault-find technical problems at PCB or system level.
• Experience with Embedded Software Design, including ARM/KEIL.
• Knowledge of EMC to military standards and managing issues at architecture and embedded levels.
• Understanding of motors and drive technology, with skills in control systems analysis.
• Proficiency in analysis and simulation tools such as Python, MATLAB, Simulink, LT-Spice, Simetrix.
• Familiarity with management tools like JIRA, Confluence, MS Project.
• Expertise in PCB design tools such as Altium, Cadence OrCAD.
• Familiarity with design resilience techniques like Failure Mode Effects Analysis.
• Awareness of Lightning Direct and Indirect Effects.

 Company Benefits:

• 37.5-hour work week with lunchtime finishes on Fridays.
• 28 days annual leave and Christmas closure.
• Employee Help@Hand Service providing access to remote GP services, second opinions, mental health support, and physiotherapy consultations.
• Life Assurance Policy, including Bereavement Counselling and Probate Helpline.
• Company Share Incentive Plan and Save as You Earn Scheme.
• Wellbeing initiatives, including access to the Aviva Wellbeing App and regular wellbeing activities.
• Employee discount scheme, including access to a wellbeing hub.
• Excellent Learning & Development opportunities.

 
Security Clearance Requirements:
Due to the nature of our business, our staff need to be able to obtain UK Security Clearance as a mandated requirement. Therefore, if successful, you will need to provide proof of identity, employment history and right to work in the UK, along with proof of UK residency for at least five years.

If your skills and experience match this exciting Senior Electronics Engineer opportunity, we encourage you to apply now!

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Electronics Group Leader to oversee and guide a team of talented electronics engineers. This pivotal role involves leading the design, development, and implementation of cutting-edge electronic systems for defence applications, while ensuring the highest standards of engineering excellence and compliance. As a leader, you will help drive both the tactical and strategic growth of the team, ensuring it evolves to meet the needs of the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of electronics engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Provide technical guidance and support to team members, assisting with complex problem-solving and decision-making.
• Oversee the design, development, and testing of electronic systems and components for defence applications, ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including mechanical, software, and systems engineers, to ensure seamless integration of electronic systems.
• Review, maintain, and improve working practices related to electrical and electronics design and development, ensuring up-to-date internal documentation.
• Support the sales team by providing technical input for new bids, opportunities, and queries regarding electrical systems.

  Skills & Experience:
Essential:

• A degree in electronics or electrical engineering (2:1 or above), or a closely related discipline.
• Several years of hands-on experience in electrical or electronics design, particularly in PCB development for high-performance microcontrollers, communications interfaces, and associated power supply and cabling architectures.
• Experience in line management and leadership within a prototype engineering environment, preferably within the defence industry.
• Technical project management experience, following the design lifecycle.
• Experience with motion control systems.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Desirable:

• Master’s degree in electronics/electrical engineering or a closely related discipline.
• 5+ years of proven technical team leadership experience.
• Experience with electrical and electronics systems in the defence environment.
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle and its interaction with electronics and systems requirements.

  Work-Life Balance:

• 37.5 hour working week.
• Lunchtime finishes on Fridays.
• Hybrid/flexible working arrangements (minimum of 4 days on-site presence on average).
• 28 days annual leave, plus Christmas closure.
• Holiday purchasing scheme.

Test Engineer

Calling all Electronics Test Engineers! An exciting opportunity for a Test Engineer exists with a leading defence company. The Test Engineer will take responsibility for testing electro-optical components, sub-assemblies, assemblies, and systems, and recording results accurately, flagging issues to the engineering team, and carrying out fault-finding to diagnose production or design issues.

Key Responsibilities:

• Undertaking Factory Acceptance Tests using standard workshop test equipment such as power supplies, digital multi-meters & oscilloscopes.

• Assist in creating test procedures and FAT documents.

• Fault-find electromechanical equipment.

• Effective communications with both technical and non-technical personnel.

• Adhere to the company’s procedures, policies and goals.

• Ensure at all times that health & safety regulations and guidelines are followed.

• Ensure that all procedures are followed as specified in the Quality Manual.

• Maintain documentation to ensure it is kept accurate and up to date in accordance with ISO 9001 standards.

• Assist in maintaining the office and workshop in a clean and orderly state and ensure good project house keeping

• Actively support continuous improvement activities.

• Support field service when required.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Excellent knowledge of manual testing electrical and electronics systems.

• Ability to write comprehensive test plans and factory acceptance tests for new product launches.

• Able to read complex technical drawings, wiring diagrams and PCB schematics.

• Will be able to support production and quality activities when required.

• ONC or equivalent in Electronics Engineering

• Experience with manual test and integration.

• Computer Literate and competent with using Microsoft Word and Excel packages.

Desirable 

• PCB testing and fault-finding experience

• Good knowledge of digital camera and video protocols.

• Knowledge of automated test software.

• PLC programming.

• Experience in CAD packages.

• Experience in communication protocols.

• Understanding of networking and network infrastructure.

Personal Attributes

• Have the ability to liaise with customers verbally and in writing in an effective manner, producing reports and participating in formal design reviews.

• Be able to communicate clearly and effectively with all stakeholders and build relationships in order to understand diverse and complex requirements.

• Have the ability to fit in and work well both in a team and in working autonomously when required (change from The ability to work independently when required).

• Highly organised and methodical approach, with an eye for detail.

• A flexible, conscientious, and diligent attitude.

• A resilient and adaptable approach at all times.

• Demonstrates our company values of Teamwork, Integrity, Excellence and Courage.

• Highly organised and methodical approach, with an eye for detail.

• The ability to work independently when required.

• A flexible, conscientious, and diligent attitude.

• A resilient and adaptable approach at all times.

Work life balance:

• 37.5 hour working week

• Lunchtime finishes on a Friday

• 28 days annual leave

• Christmas closure

• Holiday purchasing scheme

Benefits:

• Group pension plan – matched contributions up to 5%

• Income protection scheme and Employee Assistance Programme

• Employee Assistance Programme gives you and your family access to 4 key services including remote GP service, second opinion, mental health pathway service and physiotherapy consultations

• Life assurance policy, including bereavement counselling and probate helpline

• Company shares incentive plan and save as you earn scheme

• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme

• Wellbeing initiatives, including access to wellbeing app and the addition of mental health support for all employees. Plus, regular activities across our sites to support and promote wellbeing

• Regular sports and social activities

• Gym membership discounts

• Reward platform (high street discounts, employee benefits, health, and wellbeing offerings).

• Recruitment referral bonus scheme

• Excellent learning & development opportunities

• Great working environment with free, onsite car parking across all our locations

Security Clearance Requirements:

Due to the nature of our business, our staff need to be able to obtain UK Security Clearance as a mandated requirement. Therefore, if successful, you will need to provide proof of identity, employment history and right to work in the UK, along with proof of UK residency for at least five years.

Senior / Principal Firmware Engineer

Our client, a global leader in the Defence Industry is looking for a Senior / Principal Firmware Engineer working on avionics systems.

Role Overview:

The Senior / Principal firmware engineer would be responsible for design and development of Firmware designs using VHDL and verifying designs using VHDL or System Verilog.

Job Responsibilities:

The firmware engineer would work closely with Systems, Hardware and Software teams to provide firmware solutions and solve integration problems on complex systems.

• Creating innovative and robust VHDL-based designs
• Documenting and recording deliverables
• Verifying firmware designs
• Ensuring configuration management/keeping designs under revision control
• Providing progress reports

Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:

Mandatory

• Proven expertise of developing firmware using VHDL or Verilog
• Experienced with Mentor Graphics FPGA development tools including HDL Designer, ModelSim / Questa and Precision
• Familiar with Xilinx / Intel (Altera) / Microsemi (Actel) design flows (ISE, Vivado, Quartus) and third-party synthesis tools
• Experience in specifying timing and area constraints for efficient FPGA Place and Route.

• Ability to analyse system and / or hardware level requirements and derive detailed Firmware requirements

• Independent verification using VHDL
• Experience of firmware requirements capture and requirements management tools

• De-bugging firmware designs and supporting integration & verification at hardware
  and system level

• A good understanding of firmware version control and revision control software
• Experience of making technical decisions and mitigating technical risk for Firmware design activities.

• Experience with High-Speed Serial protocols and implementations

• Ability to coordinate day to day technical activities, liaising closely with the Project Engineering Lead / Lead firmware engineer & other disciplines
• Excellent communication (oral & written) & interpersonal skills

• Linux and scripting experience
• Experience in writing technical reports/ documentation

Desirable

• Development of real-time, embedded, safety-critical firmware, preferably in accordance with RTCA/DO-254 DAL D
• Independent verification using SystemVerilog / UVM
• Relevant experience in the Aerospace or Defence industry
• Experience of embedded processor cores (e.g. ARM) in FPGA designs
• Familiarity with latest FPGA device families

Qualifications

• Honours degree or equivalent in Electronics Engineering or another STEM-based subject

This role could be based in Luton or Edinburgh

Due to security requirements this role is open to SOLE UK NATIONALS ONLY

Are you a Hardware Engineer working on defence products? I have some exciting CONTRACT opportunities for Digital Hardware engineers at various levels on cutting edge defence projects.

These roles are on a hybrid basis with 3 days from home and 2 days in the office per week.

The Senior / Principal Digital hardware engineer would be responsible for design, commissioning and test of high-speed digital electronics hardware, i.e. Printed Circuit Assemblies (PCA’s) on complex systems for airborne Radar products.

The successful candidate may be required to supervise other less experienced digital hardware engineers working on the same project.

The role will be based at our customer’s site in Edinburgh and may allow for hybrid working after an initial period of familiarisation onsite.

Job Responsibilities:

• Creating high-quality and robust digital electronics designs
• Documenting and recording deliverables 
• Supporting integration & verification activities at hardware and system level 
• Keeping designs under configuration control
• Providing progress reports 

Work Experience

Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:

Essential

• Degree or equivalent in Electronics Engineering or other STEM-based subject
• Proven Expertise designing high-speed digital electronics using the latest FPGA and/ or microprocessor devices and high-speed interconnect technology
• Proficient in schematic capture using Mentor Graphics (Siemens EDA) DxDesigner or similar tools
• Experience of high-speed serial communication interfaces/ protocols (e.g. PCIe, Ethernet/ IEEE802.3, SPI, I2C, etc.) and high-speed bus architectures (e.g. DDR3/4)
• Use of high-speed digital design techniques such as signal termination, controlled impedance, matched length tracking, ground/ power planes, decoupling, etc. 
• Functional simulation & timing analysis /constraints at circuit level
• Experience of PCB layout, working closely with and providing guidance to PCB layout engineers on high-speed digital designs
• Hands on experience of integrating hardware, firmware & software on FPGA and microprocessor-based PCA’s
• Ability to coordinate day to day technical activities, liaising closely with the lead engineer / digital hardware lead & other engineering disciplines
• Experience of liaising with Manufacturing / Production colleagues and external suppliers of key components and assemblies
• Excellent communication (oral & written) & interpersonal skills
• Ability to analyse system requirements and derive detailed hardware requirements
• Experience of debugging & testing new hardware designs 
• Previous experience of the full hardware design lifecycle and presenting designs for peer and formal design reviews
• Self-motivated, with an aptitude to problem solve and drive difficult issues to conclusion
• Experience in writing technical reports / documentation

Desirable

• Relevant experience in the Aerospace/ Defence industry or on other complex/ high-reliability systems
• Experience of signal integrity & power integrity analysis at board level using Hyperlynx SI/PI or equivalent
• Knowledge of FPGA/ Software coding languages (VHDL, C, Assembler)
• Experience of hardware requirements capture, requirements management tools and formal verification of hardware requirements
• Experience of supervising other digital hardware engineers, planning and managing work for yourself and a small team 

Qualifications

• Honours or Masters degree in Electronics Engineering or related STEM subject 

Security

• Due to security requirements, these roles are open to SOLE UK NATIONALS ONLY