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✈️We’re Hiring: Electrical Design Engineer (Mechanical Bias) 📍 Crawley, West Sussex (Hybrid) | 🕒 Full-time, Permanent
Are you an Electrical Design Engineer who loves seeing how your work physically fits, moves and performs, with a passion for working in aerospace engineering environments? Do you enjoy taking ownership of electrical system design, harness and component integration, and the practical detail of making it all work inside a complex mechanical product?
We’re looking for an Electrical Design Engineer with a strong mechanical awareness to design and integrate the electrical systems within our lie-flat seating products, working hand in hand with our mechanical design team.
At Unum Aircraft Seating, we’re redefining business class comfort with smart, adaptable and reliable lie-flat seating solutions. Our products are designed to deliver exceptional passenger comfort while meeting the highest standards of safety, quality and efficiency.
Unum Aircraft Seating; Reliably comfortable, responsibly made.
🚀 Why Join Unum?
- Be part of a growing, ambitious company transforming the aircraft seating industry
- Work on premium products with real-world impact
- Join a collaborative culture focused on innovation, sustainability and quality
Fantastic benefits including:
- Competitive salary
- 5 weeks holiday + bank holidays
- Early finish on Fridays 🎉
- Flexible start and finish times
- Hybrid working options
- Three attractive pension scheme options
- Electric car & cycle-to-work schemes
- Access to employee discounts and wellbeing platform
🔧 What you will be doing as an Electrical Design Engineer at Unum
As an Electrical Design Engineer, you will design and develop the electrical systems that bring our suites to life, including actuation, controls, power and lighting. With a mechanical bias to the role, you will spend much of your time on the interface between the two disciplines, making sure electrical components, harnesses and connectors are packaged, routed and supported effectively within the suite structure.
Your key responsibilities include;
- Owning the electrical architecture and integration of our business-class suite systems, including seat actuation, lighting, passenger interface devices and aircraft-side connections
- Designing and integrating electrical systems within aircraft suites to meet company, regulatory and customer requirements
- Producing 3D harness routing, block diagrams, along with 2D/3D electrical installation and systems designs in SolidWorks
- Integrating seat electrical equipment with mechanical structures, trim and finish, cabin interfaces, and aircraft power and communication systems
- Coordinating harness routing and installation design with mechanical, systems, industrial design, certification, manufacturing and supplier teams, balancing accessibility, maintainability, weight and space constraints
- Capturing, analysing and managing electrical requirements, interface definitions, assumptions and design constraints throughout the product lifecycle
- Leading or contributing to design reviews, ensuring electrical interfaces are technically complete, controlled and agreed with cross-functional teams, customers, aircraft manufacturers and suppliers
- Taking part in product validation through prototyping, testing and troubleshooting
- Preparing and reviewing engineering documentation, test procedures, test reports, compliance evidence and certification data
- Supporting certification and manufacturing teams, and driving improvements in reliability, weight, cost and standardisation as our products and programmes evolve
- Selecting and specifying electrical components, connectors and actuators, considering mechanical loads, movement, environment and weight
🧠 What we Look For in you as our Electrical Design Engineer
- Experience in electrical design within aerospace, ideally in aircraft interiors / seating, automotive or a similar regulated environment.
- Strong mechanical aptitude, with experience integrating electrical components into mechanical assemblies (packaging, routing, mounting and actuation).
- Proficiency with 3D CAD, preferably in Solidworks (and electrical routing design tools)
- Working knowledge of aerospace electrical standards and certification requirements, such as CS-25 / FAR 25 electrical and EWIS provisions and RTCA DO-160 qualification
- Experience of supporting prototype build, test and fault finding in a hands-on environment
- Degree in electrical, electronic, mechatronic or mechanical engineering (or equivalent experience)
- Collaborative, practical problem solver who is comfortable working across disciplines
Join Us
Ready to build what’s next? If you’re looking for your next challenge and want to be part of a team shaping the future of aircraft seating, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and tell us a little more about yourself.
Everyone belongs here At Unum Aircraft Seating, we believe great ideas come from different perspectives and experiences. We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone is valued, respected and able to do their best work. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background.
Your journey, your way We want every candidate to have a great experience with us. If you need any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment or interview process, just let us know — we’re happy to help.
A quick note before you apply All applicants must have the right to work in the UK. Proof of eligibility will be required before you start with us.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so we may close a vacancy early if we receive enough suitable applications. If you’re interested, we recommend applying sooner rather than later.
And this is just the beginning Our roles aren’t set in stone. As Unum grows, our people and our opportunities grow with us. The role you join us for today may look different tomorrow — and that’s exactly the point.
