Careers
BRIGHTEN YOUR FUTURE
At DSE, highly talented individuals are collectively shaping the future of the generator control industry. This is your opportunity to add something to our world-class team and inspire our work. Our global footprint is impressive. We employ over 200 talented individuals and distribute products in over 150 countries worldwide, each one designed and manufactured at our state-of-the-art facility in the heart of North Yorkshire. In fact, DSE is recognised as the world’s leading manufacturer of generator controllers and is the only control solutions provider solely based in the United Kingdom.
There are opportunities here to gain more than just experience. We allow individuals to gain a unique DSE experience. If you like what you have heard about us and want to push yourself to be the best you can be, view our current opportunities below.
If nothing currently fits your skillset but you believe you can have a positive impact on our team, we still want to hear from you. Share how you could inspire our work and add value to our world-class team. We especially welcome enquiries from individuals with a background or qualifications in electronics, electronic engineering or an engineering discipline or if you are looking for an apprenticeship placement. Working for DSE could be closer than you think!
Share your passion by emailing careers@deepseaelectronics.com
Explore Current Vacancies Below:
Business Development Manager - Europe
Commercial
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Location:
- Europe
- Closing Date:
- Open
Business Development Manager - Europe
The DSE Control Business Development Manager role requires an ambitious and energetic individual with control system knowledge in the vehicle and off highway industries to expand our customers and market share.
You will be the front of the company and will have the dedication to create and apply an effective sales strategy to key accounts across an international territory.
The goal is to drive sustainable financial growth through sales growth and forging strong relationships with clients.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Develop a growth strategy focused both on financial gain and customer satisfaction by conducting research to identify new markets and customer needs
- Arrange sales calls with prospective clients and be confident in demonstrating the company’s products/services addressing or predicting clients’ objectives and their control system needs
- Review and create sales contracts, framework agreements ensuring adherence to law-established rules and guidelines
- Create reports and update our CRM system, provide trustworthy feedback and after-sales support and build long-term relationships with new and existing customers
- Work with and develop our area sales managers into valuable salespeople working confidently in the promotion and sales of DSE Control
Requirements:
Knowledge:
- ERP (SAP or Epicor experience, or similar) within a manufacturing and distribution environment
- Solution selling of technical control system products (PLC’s or displays)
- European sales market
Skills & Attributes:
- Communication and negotiation skills
- Ability to build rapport
- Time management and planning skill
- Excellent communication skills
- Well-developed business skills
- Outstanding negotiation skills
- Excellent listening, negotiation and presentation skills
Experience:
- Proven working experience as a business development manager, sales executive or a relevant role
- Proven sales track record
- Experience in a technical based customer support
- Proficiency in MS Office and CRM software (e.g. Salesforce)
- Proficiency in English
- Proven sales executive experience, meeting or exceeding targets
- Proven ability to drive the sales process from plan to close
- Ideally an understanding and in-depth use of Salesforce
Useful experience/skills and knowledge:
- Second language skills
- Project management
- Ability to review contracts, NDA’s and supply agreements
- Understanding ROI
- Experience in writing requirement specifications and new product development
Essential Qualifications:
- Market knowledge in relevant field
- Desirable Degree level qualification
- European Driving License
For full details of the job please download the job description by following the link below:
Please Note:
For further information or an informal chat contact our Internal Recruitment Team, on 01723 890099. If this role isn't quite right for you, but you are interested in future vacancies with Deep Sea Electronics please continue to monitor our website for regular updates. DSE is an equal opportunity employer. A copy of our statement is available on request.
Please see linked below our Job Applicant Data Privacy Notice which sets out what personal data we, Deep Sea Electronics Ltd (DSE), hold about you and how we collect and use it during and after the recruitment process.
Job Applicant Privacy Notice.pdf
Product Manager
Engineering
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Location:
- Hunmanby
- Closing Date:
- Open
Product Manager
The Product Manager develops and drives product strategy cross functionally with P&L responsibility in the assigned product category. This role is responsible for product lifecycle management, and ensures the successful launch of new products, prioritizing strategies based on market analysis and business capabilities.
The Product Manager gathers and maintains category research and synthesizes data into facts and trends that validate company direction on product development, driving innovative five-year product roadmap in collaboration with other business leaders. The incumbent understands product quality metrics and communicates issues to the appropriate groups, contributing to problem solving and resolution.
Requirements:
- Market knowledge of vehicle and off highway machinery and their automated control systems such as PLC’s and HMI’s
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; Strong presentation skills
- Effective organizational and prioritization skills
- Ability to read and understand technical information well enough to convey in communication to multiple audiences
- 4+ years of progressive in marketing, business, or engineering
- Experience in Product Management, Engineering or Technical support in an integrator company, direct DSE competitor, DSE customer or equivalent experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering or related field
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Develops product category strategy to drive revenue and profitability for assigned product lines, including specific, measurable goals such as percentage of market share, net sales, product revenue and margin growth
- Prioritizes creation of strategies against business needs and market demand
- Gathers and maintains category foundational research. This includes industry- and consumer-focused research (e.g., industry outlet share, market share, and retail sales by price tier, competitive product profiles, consumer “pain points” and usage/attitude research)
- Synthesizes data into facts and trends that validate company direction on product development
- Serves as knowledge expert in product category relative product capability, technical specifications and features, as well as market drivers and the competitive landscape
- Drives innovation-based three-year product roadmap to deliver concept ideation such as Unique Selling Propositions, roadmap of new projects, improvements to existing products and product lines, new product launch timing, phasing out old product timing, channel/customer driven NPI (New Product Introduction) projects, and cost reduction projects
- Build and deliver timely reports and presentation to internal stakeholders and external customers, including relevant metrics and information related to the product line or category
- Utilize formal and informal communication to drive product strategy across the organization, gaining buy-in from broad stakeholder base in a matrix environment
- Collaborate across functions and lead indirect teams to move projects through the stage gate development process
- Drive activities and execute on strategies to support the sales team and process at key launch events or product milestones
- Work collaboratively with the Engineering team to understand critical intellectual property, regulatory standards, legislation to update product category strategy as needed
- Up to 30% travel, including International and valid Driver’s License required
Benefits:
- 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
- New flexible holiday scheme
- Bupa Healthcare package
- Life Insurance
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity pay
- 5% Pension contributions
- Companywide performance based annual bonus scheme
For full details of the job please download the job description by following the link below:
Please Note:
For further information or an informal chat contact our Internal Recruitment Team, on 01723 890099. If this role isn't quite right for you, but you are interested in future vacancies with Deep Sea Electronics please continue to monitor our website for regular updates. DSE is an equal opportunity employer. A copy of our statement is available on request.
Please see linked below our Job Applicant Data Privacy Notice which sets out what personal data we, Deep Sea Electronics Ltd (DSE), hold about you and how we collect and use it during and after the recruitment process.
Job Applicant Privacy Notice.pdf
Embedded Software Manager
Engineering
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Location:
- Hunmanby or Mansfield
- Closing Date:
- Open
Embedded Software Manager
The Embedded Software Manager will work within the Engineering department based at our site in Hunmanby or Mansfield. They will be required to perform a hands-on role within the matrixed engineering team to line manage a subset of the engineering team in the delivery of new product developments and the maintenance of existing.
Requirements:
- Expert in C/C++ for embedded systems
- Understanding to Linux operating systems and application development, including Yocto
- An appreciation of the power generation industry and/or control and automation solutions
- Understanding of product development and managing multi discipline teams
- Software development life cycles, tools and processes
- A functional safety standard such as ISO 26262, 61508 or IEC 60730
- Good understanding of cyber security principles and technologies for embedded systems Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent ability in work break down and task estimation with a willingness to commit and drive projects to completion
- Familiar with combined stage gated (waterfall) / agile development approaches
- Risk identification and mitigation techniques
- Comfortable communicating with both technical engineers and management
- Problem-solving and trouble-shooting capabilities
- Enthusiastic and optimistic
- 7 years+ experience as a senior engineer or team leader, with direct reports
- 7 years+ working as an embedded software engineer, with a mixture of RTOS and Linux project exposure
- A background in electronics, possibly from degree education
- Relevant Bachelors’ Degree
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Line management of a segment of DSE engineering team. Engineers are located at both the North Yorkshire and Sutton in Ashfield sites with some remote and hybrid working in place
- Line management includes day to day task management, 1:1 appraisal, goal setting, creating, and guiding personal development plans, holiday approval and sickness review
- Work collaboratively with the Project Mangers to review the technical content of projects, define and estimate the duration of tasks to form project plans, assist in making sure project plans are technically correct and appropriate timescales are being worked to
- Work with Project to allocate engineering work tasks to the reporting segment, using JIRA or similar tool for task management
- Provide technical guidance and be a mentor to junior engineers
- Review and be responsibility for engineering work to ensure a high standard of output from the reporting segment
- Ensure the engineers have the necessary skills, knowledge, and tools to complete the tasks. Work with the engineering management team to address gaps as necessary
- Work at the project inception stage to provide product and project costs estimates, feasibility studies and ensure that high level technical requirements are capture completely prior to wider engineering involvement
- Be a technical decision maker and contribute to platforms and architecture strategy
- Assist in the development of in-house tools and process
- Support the wider company be answering technical questions
- Administration and maintenance of engineering systems, revision and variant control systems, issue management systems
- Work with other supervisors and engineering managers to ensure alignment on technology, processes, designs and testing
- Review department KPIs to ensure targets are being hit
- Depending on size of team, work hands on as an engineer for the relevant discipline
- Risk identification and mitigation techniques, relating to the determination of functional safety levels
- Comfortable communicating with technical engineers
Benefits:
- 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
- New flexible holiday scheme
- Bupa Healthcare package
- Life Insurance
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity pay
- 5% Pension contributions
- Companywide performance based annual bonus scheme
For full details of the job please download the job description following the link below:
Please Note:
For further information or an informal chat contact our Internal Recruitment Team, on 01723 890099. If this role isn't quite right for you, but you are interested in future vacancies with Deep Sea Electronics please continue to monitor our website for regular updates. DSE is an equal opportunity employer. A copy of our statement is available on request.
Please see linked below our Job Applicant Data Privacy Notice which sets out what personal data we, Deep Sea Electronics Ltd (DSE), hold about you and how we collect and use it during and after the recruitment process.
Job Applicant Privacy Notice.pdf
Financial Planning & Analysis Assistant
Finance
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Location:
- Hunmanby
- Closing Date:
- Open
Financial Planning & Analysis Assistant
Due to continued growth and business demands, our FP&A team is growing. The FP&A Assistant is a key role to our expanding business, providing key financial and commercial analysis to support strategic business decisions.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a profitable, ambitious company where you can demonstrate and develop your skills in equal measure.
Job Summary:
- Reporting to the Financial Planning & Analysis Manager you will play a key role in supporting the preparation of timely and accurate financial results for the Business
- With an understanding of financial metrics to support strategic decision making, you will utilise different data sources to present informative and valuable information to different stakeholders of the business
- Support the FP&A Manager in various weekly and monthly tasks & reports to be shared with Managers, Directors and the Parent Group
- Support the development of Power BI Dashboards for producing weekly and monthly financial information that will measure performance, aid decision making and forecasting decisions
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Weekly KPI & cash flow reporting across the business
- Help to prepare monthly executive reports with accuracy and explanation of the results
- Key performance metrics analysis including: Sales revenue, Gross margin, EBITDA, Comparisons (performance vs prior year, budget and forecast), Primary Working Capital and Cash Flows
- Support the FP&A Manager in month end reporting and commentary – understanding the results and explaining them
- Drive continuous improvement of Business Group Reports – improving format, speed, and the detail provided – development of Power BI dashboards that can be shared with the business
- Overhead reporting and analysis to support various departments within the business and provide a high level summary of OPEX spend
- Diving into further sales analysis including customers, products and regions.
- Spot trends and data connections
- Support the business in the LRP and budget planning process, including preparing presentations and models where necessary
- Play a key role in the forecast cycles of the business – modelling, preparing and loading into the consolidation software
Internal & External Relationships:
- Developing relationships with people in the Finance Team is important as well as building relationships and working with various departments across the company
- This role requires the individual to work across different businesses and therefore numerous teams of people; building solid working relationships is pivotal to the role
- The work produced by the FP&A Team will be presented to and used by leaders of the Business Group so building relationships at this level is also important
Requirements:
- Higher-level qualification in Finance, Economics, or other course of similar study
- Finance Qualification (AAT) or equivalent
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel
- Basic knowledge in data analytics tools is a plus
- Dedicated team player who will enthusiastically support the wider team on executing joint missions
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Capable of adapting to fast-paced environments and delivering results in varying situations
- Someone looking to take the next steps in their finance journey
Benefits:
- 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
- New flexible holiday scheme
- Bupa Healthcare package
- Life Insurance
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity pay
- 5% Pension contributions
- Companywide performance based annual bonus scheme
For full details of the job please download the job description by following the link below:
Please Note:
For further information or an informal chat contact our Internal Recruitment Team, on 01723 890099. If this role isn't quite right for you, but you are interested in future vacancies with Deep Sea Electronics please continue to monitor our website for regular updates. DSE is an equal opportunity employer. A copy of our statement is available on request.
Please see linked below our Job Applicant Data Privacy Notice which sets out what personal data we, Deep Sea Electronics Ltd (DSE), hold about you and how we collect and use it during and after the recruitment process.
Job Applicant Privacy Notice.pdf
Technical Support Engineer
Technical Support
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Location:
- Rockford - USA
- Closing Date:
- Open
Technical Support Engineer - Rockford USA
To provide DSE’s external customers with high quality, value adding technical support on the full range of the company’s electronic control modules for a wide range of generator and control applications. Including (but not limited to) renewable energy, backup/emergency power, paralleling with the grid, and other complex applications, engine only functions and off highway implementations.
To provide technical support and product development guidance to DSE’s internal teams including production, engineering, sales & marketing, test & approvals, and other members of the technical support team.
Training global and local customers, and internal personnel on DSE product and their applications.
Global and local customer visits to assist sales, training, or fault-finding purposes.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Providing customers with global technical support (training, trouble shooting, commissioning etc.) via telephone, email, remote desktop sessions (e.g., Microsoft Teams, Zoom, etc.) and face-to-face on a wide range of DSE product
- Delivering training sessions on DSE products covering technical functions, applications, and common faults
- Test and confirm reported issues from customers. If confirmed follow the company’s procedures and guidelines for remedial action
- Preparation of technical documentation including product manuals and training instructions
- Proofread technical documents authored by other personnel
- Development guidance to engineering on new and existing product features
- Assisting the test and approval department’s comprehensive testing of products
- Technical support to DSE Internal teams including production, engineering, sales & marketing, test & approvals, and other members of the technical support team
- Compliance with internal procedures and documentation
- Submit a monthly report to the global support manager of previous months activities
Internal & External Relationships:
- Liaise with other technical support engineers to better understand existing and new products, and their functionality
- Liaise with the engineering and test & approval departments when clarification is required by those departments or technical support
- Liaise with internal sales and marketing providing assistance where necessary
- Liaise with the relevant Business Development Manager (BDM) for their region’s requirements. Keeping them appraised of developments in their area
- Liaise with DSE distributers, customers, integrators, and end users requiring support
- Liaise with 3rd party companies within DSE supply chain providing assistance where necessary
Requirements:
- General generator application and system knowledge
- Excellent communications skills
- Confident IT skills
- Ability to work at a high level of concentration and commitment
- Ability to operate under own initiative as well as possessing strong team working skills
- Excellent time management skills
- Recent experience in the generators and the diesel generator industry
- Relevant experience in a customer-based environment
- Educated to a HNC level in Electrical and Electronic Engineering or equivalent by industry experience
For full details of the job please download the job description below:
Please Note:
For further information or an informal chat contact our Internal Recruitment Team, on 01723 890099. If this role isn't quite right for you, but you are interested in future vacancies with Deep Sea Electronics please continue to monitor our website for regular updates. DSE is an equal opportunity employer. A copy of our statement is available on request.
Please see linked below our Job Applicant Data Privacy Notice which sets out what personal data we, Deep Sea Electronics Ltd (DSE), hold about you and how we collect and use it during and after the recruitment process.
Job Applicant Privacy Notice.pdf
Hardware Engineer
Engineering
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Location:
- Hunmanby or Mansfield
- Closing Date:
- Open
Hardware Engineer - Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS)
We are seeking an experienced Hardware Engineer to design, develop, and support reliable power transfer solutions used in critical power applications.
This role focuses on the electrical and electronic hardware design of Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS) systems, including power switching, sensing, protection, and control interfaces, ensuring compliance with safety and performance standards.
The ideal candidate has strong experience in power electronics, low- and medium-voltage power systems, and electromechanical control design, with hands-on involvement from concept through production.
The individual will work within the Engineering department located at DSE headquarters in Hunmanby (North Yorkshire) or in Mansfield (Nottinghamshire). They will perform hardware development activities on new product developments as well as maintaining the current product portfolio.
The company products operate in the Energy Control and Automation market and are designed to provide energy throughout a wide range of forms such as generator sets, renewable, microgrid as well as off-highway machinery.
Requirements:
- CAD design tools
- Analogue and digital design
- EMC principles
- Working to high-quality standards
- Excellent team player with problem-solving and trouble-shooting capabilities
- Ability to translate requirements into a technical product specification
- Good communication skills and ability to concisely discuss product development issues within team of engineers from many different specialities
- Enthusiastic and optimistic
- Adaptable to changing requirements
- Experience defining task breakdowns for a give piece of work and providing estimates
- Willingness to travel, role will include travel to US based parent company
- 3+ years of experience in electronics / electrical design
- Proficiency in schematic capture and PCB design tools (Altium, OrCAD, CADstar, etc.)
- Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, power analysers, and high-power lab equipment
- Experience of analogue hardware design including signal conditioning / processing
- Working knowledge & understanding of PCB design & layout requirements particularly with respect to EMC
Key Responsibilities:
Hardware Design & Development
- Design and develop ATS hardware architectures including power paths, switching elements (contactors, breakers, SCRs, or solid-state devices), and auxiliary control circuits
- Create schematics, PCB layouts, and wiring diagrams for ATS control and monitoring systems
- Design circuits for voltage, current, frequency sensing, phase detection, and power quality monitoring
- Implement protective circuits for over-current, over-voltage, short-circuit, and fault isolation
- Support integration of microcontrollers, relays, and communication interfaces (e.g., Modbus, CAN, Ethernet)
Power Systems & Compliance
- Ensure ATS designs meet UL, IEC, BS, and relevant regional standards
- Perform fault analysis, derating calculations, creepage/clearance analysis, and thermal design
- Support short-circuit withstand and closing ratings (WCR) and coordination studies
- Collaborate with compliance teams during certification testing and audits
Testing & Validation
- Develop and execute hardware validation plans including functional, environmental, and stress testing
- Perform lab testing with generators, utility sources, and load banks
- Analyse test data, debug hardware issues, and implement design improvements
Manufacturing & Lifecycle Support
- Support prototype builds, design for manufacturability (DFM), and design for test (DFT)
- Work with suppliers and manufacturing teams on component selection and cost optimization
- Provide production support, failure analysis, and field issue resolution
Benefits:
- 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
- New flexible holiday scheme
- Bupa Healthcare package
- Life Insurance
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity pay
- 5% Pension contributions
- Companywide performance based annual bonus scheme
For full details of the job please download the job description following the link below:
Please Note:
For further information or an informal chat contact our Internal Recruitment Team, on 01723 890099. If this role isn't quite right for you, but you are interested in future vacancies with Deep Sea Electronics please continue to monitor our website for regular updates. DSE is an equal opportunity employer. A copy of our statement is available on request.
Please see linked below our Job Applicant Data Privacy Notice which sets out what personal data we, Deep Sea Electronics Ltd (DSE), hold about you and how we collect and use it during and after the recruitment process.
Job Applicant Privacy Notice.pdf
Embedded Software Engineer
Engineering
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Location:
- Hunmanby or Mansfield
- Closing Date:
- Open
Embedded Software Engineer
Join the engineering team at Deep Sea Electronics Ltd, where you will design and deliver high‑quality embedded software for industrial Control and Automation applications. The role focuses on real‑time control, industrial communications and functional safety (IEC 61508/IEC 62061), creating robust solutions for environments such as power generation, manufacturing, utilities and process industries. You will contribute across the product lifecycle — from requirements and architecture through implementation, verification, certification and field support.
Requirements:
- Expert in C/C++ for microcontroller development
- Functional Safety: IEC 61508 (and/or IEC 62061); safety concepts (SIL, SFF, PFH), safety planning and verification
- Principles of Industrial Automation products: control theory basics (PID), sensors/actuators, transducers and signal conditioning
- Electrical principles
- Familiar with stage gated / agile development approaches
- Comfortable collaborating closely with electronics engineers on embedded systems
- Working to a high-quality standards
- Excellent team player with problem-solving and trouble-shooting capabilities
- Experience defining a task breakdown for a give piece of work and provide estimates
- Ability to translate requirements into a technical product specification
- Experience in working in a high-pace environment
- Enthusiastic and optimistic
- Development with Real Time Operating Systems
- Development of unit tested C code, using Jenkins or similar
- Source code build tools, bug tracker tools, source code repositories, etc
- BEng or above in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Design and implement C/C++ software for embedded devices (bare‑metal and RTOS) used in industrial control systems
- Develop real‑time control algorithms (e.g., PID, state‑based control) for sensors, actuators, and power systems
- Produce work break down structures and define work packages for execution in JIRA tasks and integration into high level plans
- Integrate with industrial control equipment and software, including PLCs, HMIs and SCADA systems
- Implement and validate industrial communication protocols: Modbus (RTU/TCP), CAN/CANopen/J1939, Ethernet/IP, PROFINET, OPC UA, RS‑232/RS‑485
- Apply functional safety practices in line with IEC 61508/IEC 62061, including SIL determination, Safety Requirements Specifications (SRS), HARA/FTA/FMEA, and verification evidence
- Contribute to software quality by the use of coding standards (e.g., MISRA C/C++) and static analysis tools, performing code reviews and developing unit/integration tests
- Create test plans and perform functional product verification and validation activities
- Author and maintain engineering documentation: architecture, design descriptions, interface control documents, test plans, and safety lifecycle artefacts
- Collaborate closely with electronics, test & approvals, cybersecurity and product management to deliver cohesive solutions
- Support system integration, commissioning and troubleshooting at parent company and customer sites (UK and international travel required)
- Contribute to continuous improvement of processes, toolchains, CI/CD and development workflows (e.g., Git, Jira, code review)
- Mentor less‑experienced engineers; share knowledge through design reviews, brown‑bags and documentation
- Participate in sustaining activities for existing products, including defect resolution and targeted feature enhancements
Benefits:
- 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
- New flexible holiday scheme
- Bupa Healthcare package
- Life Insurance
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity pay
- 5% Pension contributions
- Companywide performance based annual bonus scheme
For full details of the job please download the job description by following the link below:
Please Note:
For further information or an informal chat contact our Internal Recruitment Team, on 01723 890099. If this role isn't quite right for you, but you are interested in future vacancies with Deep Sea Electronics please continue to monitor our website for regular updates. DSE is an equal opportunity employer. A copy of our statement is available on request.
Please see linked below our Job Applicant Data Privacy Notice which sets out what personal data we, Deep Sea Electronics Ltd (DSE), hold about you and how we collect and use it during and after the recruitment process.
Job Applicant Privacy Notice.pdf
Functional Safety Manager
Engineering
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Location:
- Hunmanby or Mansfield
- Closing Date:
- Open
Functional Safety Manager
The Functional Safety Manager at DSE is a hands-on technical role responsible for leading and delivering Functional Safety activities across the organisation in line with IEC 61508 and related industrial standards.
Working closely with engineering, product, and project teams, the Functional Safety Manager acts as the subject-matter expert for Functional Safety, providing practical guidance as well as writing and maintaining safety documentation and processes. The role also serves as the primary interface with external certification bodies and regulatory authorities, supporting audits, approvals, and ongoing compliance.
This position requires a pragmatic, detail-oriented individual who combines strong technical knowledge with the ability to influence, train, and support teams to deliver safe, compliant, and high-quality products.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Lead and deliver Functional Safety activities in accordance with IEC 61508 across the full product lifecycle
- Develop, review, and maintain Functional Safety documentation, including safety plans, analyses, and safety cases
- Plan, facilitate, and document Functional Safety Hazard Analysis workshops with cross-functional teams
- Act as the Functional Safety subject-matter expert for the DSE product range, maintaining strong product and application knowledge
- Integrate Functional Safety requirements into system, hardware, and software design and development activities
- Provide hands-on support and guidance to engineering and project teams on safety and compliance matters
- Liaise with external certification bodies, regulatory agencies, and approval authorities to achieve and maintain product approvals
- Support audits, assessments, and regulatory submissions, acting as the primary Functional Safety contact
- Assist with the maintenance of technical files, declarations, and compliance documentation to support certification and market access
- Deliver Functional Safety and compliance training to build awareness and capability across the organisation
- Develop, improve, and maintain compliance procedures, processes, templates, and checklists
- Monitor changes to international Functional Safety and compliance standards and communicate impacts to stakeholders
- Undertake ad hoc duties as required to support engineering, compliance, and business objectives
Internal & External Relationships:
- Project Management – provide task breakdowns and estimates for functional safety related tasks
- Product Management – ensure product roadmaps are in place to meet the necessary functional safety standards as required by the EU and US.
- Engineering – working within the team to develop industrial controls solutions to functional safety standards.
- Technical Support – assist with functional safety related customer support queries, including those relating to customer HARA interfaces.
- External Certification Bodies – prepare submissions and manage audits of safety cases to external bodies
Requirements:
- Expert in C/C++ for embedded systems
- Functional safety development processes, including hazard assessment techniques
- Knowledge of EU Machinery Directive regulation
- Functional safety standards, IEC 61508, IEC 62061
- Familiar with stage gated / agile development approaches
- Comfortable collaborating and communicating with embedded systems engineers and company executives alike, bridging the gap between technical and management
- Ability to lead a team through a functional safety assessment, maintaining pragmatism and consistency.
- Good documentation writing skills
- Held a role focused on functional safety in embedded systems
- Functional Safety certification from TUV, Exida or similar
- BSC in computer science or related degree qualification
Benefits:
- 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
- New flexible holiday scheme
- Bupa Healthcare package
- Life Insurance
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity pay
- 5% Pension contributions
- Companywide performance based annual bonus scheme
For full details of the job and to apply please follow the link below:
Please Note:
For further information or an informal chat contact our Internal Recruitment Team, on 01723 890099. If this role isn't quite right for you, but you are interested in future vacancies with Deep Sea Electronics please continue to monitor our website for regular updates. DSE is an equal opportunity employer. A copy of our statement is available on request.
Please see linked below our Job Applicant Data Privacy Notice which sets out what personal data we, Deep Sea Electronics Ltd (DSE), hold about you and how we collect and use it during and after the recruitment process.
Job Applicant Privacy Notice.pdf
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