Hands-on Electronic Manager – Automotive

Company: Verso Recruitment Group
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Location: Essex
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Job Title: Hands-on Electronic Manager – Automotive Location: Harlow, Essex Salary: £65,000 to £75,000 basic + bonus + benefits Employment Type: Permanent Right to work: Candidates must have the right to work in the UK. They cannot offer sponsorship.    You must have a background in the Automotive sector with experience of CAN bus.    This is an excellent opportunity to join an innovative engineering business where you’ll spend around 70% of your time designing electronics, whilst providing technical leadership/Management and project oversight for a team of four experienced Electronics Engineers. Rather than micromanaging the team, you’ll be responsible for driving projects forward, ensuring delivery against key milestones, supporting technical decision-making and helping shape the future direction of the electronics function.    The Role – Hands-on Electronic Manager – Automotive You’ll lead the electronics engineering team whilst remaining heavily involved in the design and development of new products.    Your responsibilities will include:

  • Leading and mentoring a team of four experienced Electronics Engineers.
  • Remaining hands-on with the design and development of electronic hardware.
  • Managing multiple development projects, ensuring deadlines and project milestones are achieved.
  • Designing a broad range of electronic circuits, with a strong emphasis on power electronics.
  • Working across analogue and digital electronic design.
  • Providing technical leadership throughout the full product development lifecycle
  • processes and design methodologies.

The Role – Hands-on Electronic Manager – Automotive

We’re looking for an experienced Electronics Engineer with both strong technical capability and proven leadership experience.    You’ll have:

  • Proven experience leading or managing an electronics engineering team
  • A broad background in electronic hardware design
  • Strong experience in power electronics (DC-DC converters, power supplies, LED drivers or similar)
  • Experience across analogue and digital circuit design
  • Experience managing engineering projects and coordinating multiple workstreams
  • Automotive electronics experience
  • CAN Bus knowledge

This is an opportunity to play a key role within a growing engineering business where you’ll have genuine influence over both product development and the future direction of the electronics department.    If you’re looking for a role that combines hands-on electronic design with technical leadership, we’d love to hear from you.    If you have any specific questions about this Hands-on Electronics Manager – Automotive in Harlow Essex call David on (phone number removed). To apply email – (url removed)…

Posted: July 24th, 2026