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Job title: PCB Designer

Location: Cowes/Great Baddow/Portsmouth. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements. Part time & accruing hours available. Please let us know if you would like to discuss these options.

Salary: Up to £55,320 depending on skills and experience.

What you’ll be doing:

PCB design techniques for large, complex, multi-layer, multi-substrate, PCBs. (Up to 24 layer, 2000+ components)

Designing for controlled impedance, high speed digital, RF, mixed signal, high current, and large FPGA technologies

Experience of blind, buried, and filled via techniques

Experience of flexible PCB and interconnecting assemblies

Ability to work with complex mechanical profiles to accommodate enclosure, structural, thermal, and screening requirements

Experience of one or more industry standard toolsets

Ability to work to ISO9001 and IPC-610 standards

Your skills and experiences:

HND or higher in Electrical/Electronic Engineering (or equivalent)

Expertise in complex PCB design, including multi-layer, multi-substrate boards with up to 24 layers and 2000+ components

Experience with high-speed digital, RF, mixed-signal, high-current, and large FPGA designs, including controlled impedance and advanced via techniques

Proficiency in flexible PCB assemblies and integration within complex mechanical and thermal constraints

Familiarity with industry-standard design tools and adherence to ISO9001 and IPC-610 standards

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Printed Circuit Board and Interconnects team:

As a PCB Designer you will be part of a team generating PCB designs. You will have detailed knowledge and experience of tools and techniques required to generate large, complex, multi-substrate PCB designs. As well as this, you will undertake PCB design activities from initial concepts through to generation of manufacturing data packs.

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 14th July 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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