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Why Work for Captec?

We have been designing complex computing platforms for challenging environments for decades. We call it ‘beyond the yellow line’. We design and supply innovative, complex systems that help our customers run their solutions reliably in various sectors, including medical and defence. We think ahead and challenge ourselves to innovate constantly. You will fit right in if you are excited by what we do, like being challenged and pushed to develop yourself.

Our values are at the heart of all we do, and our collaborative, team environment means you will work with some of the best in the industry. We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive culture where you can develop and hone your skills, experience and expertise to reach your full potential.

Opportunities to work in different roles and across projects will arise; you just have to grasp them. Because we challenge ourselves, if you put the effort in, we will support you to grow personally and professionally.

Current Vacancies

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Business Development Manager – Cambridge, Canada

As part of our continued growth, we’re looking for a strategic and results-driven Business Development Manager to join our Sales team in Canada. This is a high-impact role focused on expanding our presence within the Defence sector, working with both enterprise and SME customers.

You’ll be responsible for identifying, developing, and closing high-value opportunities, bringing a consultative mindset and a sharp commercial edge to every engagement. While deep technical expertise isn’t required, you’ll need to quickly immerse yourself in our capabilities and services to confidently communicate the value and relevance of our solutions. Your ability to translate complex customer needs into customised technology offerings will be key to your success.

This role demands strong relationship-building skills. You’ll be expected to uncover new opportunities through insight-led conversations and deliver compelling proposals that demonstrate our value proposition.

If you have a proven track record in field-based business development and consistently deliver multimillion-dollar sales targets, you’ll thrive here.

This is a full-time, field-based position, reporting into our Cambridge, Ontario office.

 

Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop and execute sales prospecting and customer targeting plans.
  • Build and manage a pipeline of qualified prospects through cold calling, referrals, and networking.
  • Lead key account development plans to grow revenue and deepen customer engagement.
  • Prepare persuasive proposals and quotations in collaboration with technical and commercial teams.
  • Maintain accurate CRM records (HubSpot) and provide regular sales forecasts.
  • Representing Captec at industry events and networking opportunities.
  • Achieve monthly, quarterly, and annual sales and margin targets.

 

 

Required Experience & Skillset:
  • 3+ years of experience selling technology solutions to relevant stakeholders in the Defence sector is a must. Additional experience in healthcare, automation, transportation, energy, or communications considered an asset.
  • Experience in initiating and converting cold leads to opportunities.
  • Proven track record of closing high-value contracts with large SME and Enterprise customers.
  • Strong consultative and solution-oriented skills enabling identification of new opportunities.
  • Experience in major project deployments and stakeholder management.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.

 

 

Personal Attributes:
  • Commercially astute with strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
  • Skilled in delivering persuasive presentations tailored to diverse audiences and customer needs.
  • Exceptional interpersonal and client engagement skills.
  • Highly organized with excellent time management.
  • Self-motivated, adaptable, and a team player with entrepreneurial spirit.
  • Confident using CRM systems and Microsoft Office Suite.

 

Education:

  • Degree or equivalent in engineering, science, business, marketing, or a technical field.
  • Ongoing professional development and familiarity with modern sales methodologies.

 

Applicants must have a valid driver’s license and access to a reliable car.  They must be legally authorized to work in Canada and have the ability to travel to the United States without restriction. Proof of eligibility will be required.

This position offers a competitive salary and commission package plus excellent scope for training and development and career progression.  At Captec, we have a relaxed, friendly working environment plus a benefits package to support your health and wellbeing, including:

  • 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday
  • 2 weeks paid vacation
  • 5 days unpaid leave
  • 3 days paid for Christmas shutdown
  • Pension scheme
  • Life Insurance
  • Medical Scheme

 

If you would like to apply for this exciting opportunity, working for an employer where your efforts are appreciated, recognised and well rewarded, then please send a copy of your CV and a covering letter to our HR team at [email protected]

Head of Engineering – Fareham, UK

We have an opening for a leadership role in managing our engineering design department. The position of Head of Engineering reports directly to the COO and leads a multi-disciplinary technical team of engineers and technicians.

The successful candidate we are seeking should have had a career progression spanning a technical specialist role in ideally an electro-mechanical engineering design discipline or with a bias on mechanical or electrical/electronics. In addition, the candidate must have proven experience managing the whole spectrum of product development and realisation, including project management, design, V&V, certification where appropriate, orderly production handover into manufacturing, and lifecycle management.

We are looking for a proven people-manager with experience of managing a multi-disciplinary engineering technical team. An individual with a robust character willing and eager to take on technical challenges and work within set time and budget constraints. Strong project management capabilities and the ability to implement appropriate remedial measures, as and when appropriate, are required.

Leadership and motivational skills are key requirements in this role. The successful candidate would need to be an effective communicator able to establish and cultivate good relationships with multiple internal and external stakeholders. A thorough, disciplined, and detailed style of working will be necessary with a logical and detailed analysis of requirements and processes. A detailed approach towards on-time/on-budget milestone delivery is an important requirement for successful performance.

This position requires candidates who can maintain a high work rate and who are discontented with merely maintaining the status quo. Candidates who are always looking for new and better ways of doing things will be welcomed and valued in this role.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Management responsibility for the primary engineering department’s functions of Design and Innovation (Mechanical, Electro-mechanical, Electronic) functions.
  • Management, workflow planning, scheduling and review of work and deliver defined milestones to business stakeholders.
  • Participation in setting the departmental budget and managing to budget with monthly/ quarterly and annual reviews.
  • Management of technical involvement of multiple projects with regular review and management, involvement of design reviews and involvement of V&V.
  • Actively involved in new and existing product lifecycle management.
  • Oversee design reviews and ensure designs are optimised.
  • Fully responsible for the engineering processes within the company.

 

Required Experience & Skillset:
  • Currently, be in a management leadership role with a minimum of 5+ years track record.
  • Proven experience in managing multi-disciplinary technical teams with a blended mix of mechanical, electro/mechanical, computer configuration/integration and electronics.
  • Experienced budget setter/holder with responsibility for managing an assigned budget.
  • Sector experience working in one or more of the following industries: Defence, Automation, Medical equipment, Transport, Energy, or Communications would be preferable.
  • Experience with understanding and managing product design to meet compliance & certification as required to international standards e.g. CE, FCC, 60945, DNV-2.4, MIL-STD-810, etc.
  • Customer/market-facing, consultative / solution-orientated technical experience in an industrial B2B market sector with a good degree of engineering, computing, or technology-related subject expertise.

 

This position offers a competitive salary plus excellent scope for training, development, and career progression.  At Captec, we have a relaxed, friendly working environment plus a benefits package that includes:

  • Flexitime: 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday. Core hours – 10am-4pm.
  • Hybrid working arrangements
  • 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays (increases with service)
  • Pension scheme – employer contributions increase with service
  • Life Assurance
  • Health Cash Plan
  • Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay
  • Bonus scheme
  • Salary sacrifice electric vehicle and cycle-to-work schemes
  • Free onsite parking and electric car charging points
  • Free tea and coffee and plenty of kitchen facilities
  • Social area with dartboard and pool table

If you would like to apply for this excellent opportunity to work for an employer where your efforts are appreciated, recognised and well rewarded, then please send a copy of your CV and a cover letter to our HR team at [email protected]

All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK.
Senior Electrical Design Engineer – Farnborough, UK

Are you ready to contribute electrical innovation that makes a real impact?

This is your opportunity to join a forward-thinking engineering team where your skills, experience and creativity will shape customer solutions that genuinely matter in critical applications defending the nation, saving lives in healthcase equipment, or keeping critical infrastructure running.

In this role, you won’t just design electrical systems; you will influence how modern electrical solutions in complex and AI-advanced systems are developed and delivered. You will be at the center of creating advanced electrical architectures that support cutting-edge applications and intelligent systems.

You will take full ownership of electrical projects end-to-end, mentor talented engineers around you and solve challenging problems that push boundaries. If you thrive in an environment that values creativity, exploration and continuous improvement, you’ll feel right at home here.

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

What you will be doing day-to-day:

  • Designing and delivering electrical systems for high-profile engineering projects
  • Working alongside multidisciplinary teams to turn ideas into fully realised solutions
  • Finding solutions to complex challenges and helping to set technical direction
  • Making sure the electrical elements of a project meet current standards while continually improving how things are done
  • Being a go-to problem-solver who adds creativity, structure and clarity to projects

 

This is a role for someone who enjoys variety, ownership and being part of a team that truly values engineering excellence.  It offers a clear path for progression shaped around your strengths and ambitions, and long-term development opportunities with access to cutting-edge tools and technologies.

 

Required Experience & Skillset:

 

Essential

  • Degree in Electrical Engineering
  • 7-10+ Years of experience in Electrical Design
  • Strong working knowledge of CAD tools and Electrical Standards
  • A proactive, detail-driven approach and a passion for solving technical problems

 

Desirable

  • Experience of working with Safety Standards such as BS EN IEC 62368-1
  • Have a good working knowledge of the requirements and acceptance for Cable and Wire Harness Assemblies.
  • A Chartered Engineer or working towards a Professional Body Registration

 

This position offers a competitive salary plus excellent scope for training and development and career progression.  At Captec, we have a relaxed, friendly working environment plus a benefits package that includes:

  • 38 hours per week, Monday – Friday (lunchtime finish).
  • Up to 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays (increase with service)
  • Pension scheme – employer contributions increase with service
  • Life Assurance
  • Health Cash Plan
  • Bonus scheme
  • Salary sacrifice electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
  • Free onsite parking and electric car charging points
  • Free tea and coffee and plenty of kitchen facilities

If you would like to apply for this excellent opportunity, working for an employer where your efforts are appreciated, recognised and well rewarded, then please send a copy of your CV and a covering letter to our HR team at [email protected]

All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK.

Welder x 2 – Farnborough, UK

We are hiring two skilled welders with strong experience working with aluminium and thin-gauge materials to join our team at Captec Subsystems Engineering (CSE) in Farnborough.

Who are we?

At CSE, challenging industrial environments are a seamless inclusion of our multi-disciplinary capabilities. We pride ourselves on offering a comprehensive range of services that cater to every stage of your project, from design and manufacturing to industry certification and compliance.

Our expertise extends across sheet‑metal fabrication, specialised computer and electronics integration, cable harnesses, components, and supply chain management. We are equipped to handle diverse requirements and ensure the highest quality in both design and manufacturing processe

 

Key Responsibilities:

To be successful, you will have solid hands-on experience welding thin-gauge aluminium, as well as working with mild steel and stainless steel. You will be proficient in MIG and TIG welding processes and able to critically inspect your own work to ensure it meets drawing and quality standards. You will also have fabrication experience involving multi-level Bills of Materials (BoMs) and be confident using workshop tools such as grinders and other associated equipment. In addition, you will be able to produce welds in line with customer specifications and read CAD drawings to manufacture parts to the highest standard.

 

Required Experience & Skillset:

Essential experience for the role:

  • Over 4 years’ hands-on welding experience, specialising in thin‑gauge aluminium, with additional expertise working with mild steel and stainless steel.
  • Proficient in MIG and TIG welding processes.
  • 4+ years in a fabrication background, including working with multi-level Bills of Materials (BoMs).
  • Skilled and confident in using tools like grinders, manual / electric tools.

 

Personal Attributes:
  • Can identify potential ways to reduce waste and/or improve processes.
  • Has the utmost respect for health & safety in the workplace and abides by health & safety and environmental rules.
  • Has a positive, can-do outlook.

 

This position offers a competitive salary plus excellent scope for training and development and career progression.  At Captec, we have a relaxed, friendly working environment plus a benefits package that includes:

  • 38 hours per week, Monday – Friday (lunchtime finish).
  • Up to 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays (increase with service)
  • Pension scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Health Cash Plan
  • Bonus scheme
  • Salary sacrifice electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
  • Free onsite parking and electric car charging points
  • Free tea and coffee and plenty of kitchen facilities

 

If you would like to apply for this excellent opportunity, working for an employer where your efforts are appreciated, recognised and well rewarded, then please send a copy of your CV and a covering letter to our HR team at [email protected]

All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK.

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