Captec UK Careers

Due to our ongoing growth, we are seeking a driven and ambitious Business Development Manager (BDM) to identify and develop targeted opportunities, driving business growth for Captec’s capabilities and products.

As a proven and successful BDM, you will have experience selling to C level stakeholders providing technology solutions, ideally into one or more of the operational technology environments into the sectors we serve – Defence, Healthcare, Automation, Transportation, Energy or Communications.

This is a commercial role and, whilst it doesn’t require in depth technical knowledge, it’s essential to have the ability to identify new opportunities through a consultative and solution orientated approach.  You will need to immerse yourself in all aspects of our capabilities and services to effectively relay the benefits and features of our offerings. This will ensure that customers are convinced of our value proposition and offered the most suitable solution for their needs.

As this role focuses on new business, you will be field based, reporting into our HQ in Hampshire at least once a week.

So, if you’ve got a strong background in a field-based business development and proven experience in delivering a multimillion sales target, you’ll thrive here!!

Key Responsibilities:

• Preparation of sales prospecting plans focusing on creating engagement opportunities for our products and solutions.
• Prepare and execute Target Key Account Development Plans.
• Opportunity nurturing, relationship building and networking.
• Engage in a balanced mix of opportunity nurturing and relationship building activities to identify, and progress prospects to customers.
• Actively identify and engage in networking opportunities at industry events to meet potential and targeted prospects.
• Growth of key accounts and customer base.
• Achievement of sales and margin targets.
• Utilisation of CRM systems to manage sales funnel.

 

Required Experience & Skillset:

• Proven track record in negotiating and closing net new high value opportunities within large SME and Enterprise customers.
• Sector and customer knowledge to ensure an understanding of current and future solution needs.
• Capable of communicating customer/sector requirement to support sales strategy development.
• Experienced in major project deployments and management of stakeholders.
• Commercially confident with proven experience in complex projects.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, utilising data/statistical and analytical methods to resolve commercial issues.
• Must hold a full and clean driving licence

 

This position offers a competitive salary and commission package.  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 (increase 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

 
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.

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 milestones delivery is an important requirement for successful performance.

This position calls for candidates who can maintain a high work rate and who will be discontented 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 departments 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 products 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 and 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 (increase 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, 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.

Are you an adventurous and energetic Project Manager who wants to deliver exciting projects across a broad range of engineering technologies?

Do you strive to get it right first time, every-time and flourish in a fast-paced engineering environment?

If so, Captec wants to hear from you!

Captec is an ambitious, forward-thinking and fast-growing organisation, continuously expanding its portfolio of technology projects. Whether it’s a critical health system, comms racks for the defence or marine industries, or interactive products for the entertainment sector, Captec is championing reliable, cost-effective solutions with determination and pace.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious Project Manager looking to further develop their career and skillset. Reporting to the Project Management Team Lead you will be responsible for the preparation of project plans, resource requirements and schedules to ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget and to cost constraints. You will be involved in the management of a mix of multi-project portfolios ranging from short duration express projects (1- 3 months) to more complex longer duration engineering projects (1-9 months). The nature of projects will vary greatly and involve electromechanical design, electronic hardware, integration and innovation based around computing solutions.

We envision that the successful Project Manager will come from a solid engineering environment with experience of project management systems involving the development of electromechanical or electronic equipment and computer hardware.

Key Responsibilities:

• Minimum of five years’ experience successfully managing and implementing multiple concurrent projects or varying complexities to time and budget.
• Ability to ensure completion of project deliverables to the required timescale and budget.
• Competent in using MS Project and MS Office products.
• Liaise with a range of key stake holders to ensure effective project delivery and to deliver clear communication on project progress and risks
• Create and deliver project work plans, identify resources and assign responsibilities and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of the project to ensure on time delivery within budget and to feature.
• Ensure project documents are complete, current, and appropriately stored.
• Provide financial reporting for the project including forecasting requirements.
• Organise and lead team meetings and reviews.
• Graduate in engineering related subject or qualified by experience.

 

Personal Attributes:

• Excellent communication skills with an ability to engage and easily build rapport with people
• Organised and with excellent time management.
• Able to handle pressure to meet deadlines and deliver project outcomes.
• Passionate, energetic and with a positive outlook.
• Process driven with logical, planned and structured methodology.
• Flexibility and willingness to adapt to the needs of the business and to take on challenges required to get the job done

 

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:

• Flexitime: 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday. Core hours – 10am-4pm.
• Hybrid working arrangements
• 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays (increase 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, 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.

Here at Captec, we are seeking an ambitious Senior Electrical Design Engineer to join our growing Technical Services Team in Fareham. You will need to be good at working within a team as well as having a keen eye for detail to ensure work is generated to the highest quality.

So, why Captec? We are an ambitious, forward-thinking, and fast-growing organisation, continuously expanding our portfolio of technology projects, so there is never a dull day! Whether it’s a critical health system, racking for the defence or marine industries, or interactive products for the entertainment sector, we are championing reliable, cost-effective solutions with determination and pace.

For this permanent position, you will ideally be a qualified and experienced Electrical Design Engineer or Electrical Engineer with experience in designing and developing small to medium sized products. This role will include products across various sectors including, marine, defence, energy, healthcare and transport so a versatile talented mind is required.

As our Electrical Design Engineer, you will work with and alongside our friendly and supportive engineering team using your expert skills to design industrial, mobile, and rugged computers and 19” racks and associated fittings. Reporting to the Engineering Project Lead, you will also be responsible for developing electrical design solutions for specific project requirements, as well as preparing and presenting designs reviews, prototype build and supporting design verification testing.

In addition, you will collaborate and support NPI engineers with knowledge transfer relating to electrical designs for the purposes of design transfer to production.

The Senior Electrical Design Engineer will be expected to actively engage with suppliers to ensure transfer of knowledge and best practice in the implementation and use of their products or components.

You will have technical responsibility in the design and development of products that you can be justifiably proud of.

Key Responsibilities:

 

Essential Capabilities

• Use of best practices for the design of electrical hardware solutions from concept through to pre-production, testing and production, including:
  • Ability to translate customers’ requirements from a statement of work into designs that satisfy the requirements specification.
  • Experience of design for manufacture and testing.
  • Ability to simulate, prototype, conduct experiments, analyse, and interpret test data.
  • Ability to generate and review relevant design documentation.
  • Component selection and bill of material creation.
• Experience with electrical drawing software, preferable Solidworks Electrical or similar.
• Experience of working on military or aerospace projects, or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience of working to and auditing against electrical and safety standards.
• Ability to present specific aspects of engineering assignments at project meetings and reviews.
• Security clearance will be required. (UK National).

 

Desirable

Experience of working with:

• BS EN Standards such as 62368 and 61010 (Safety) and Military specs (Def-Stan).
• EMC and regulatory requirements (CE/UKCA).
• ISO 9001 standard or a professional and process driven methodology.
• Computer infrastructure and interfaces.

 

Required Experience & Skillset:

• Ideally a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or related qualification.
• Significant experience in an engineering department working on the design of electrical aspects of multiple projects of moderate and major size.
• Experience of designing AC and DC systems to a variety of compliance standards.

 

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:

• Flexitime: 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday. Core hours – 10am-4pm.
• Hybrid working arrangements
• 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays (increase 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, 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.

We are hiring for a skilled Welder, who has experience of aluminium and thin Gauge AC/DC-Welding – DTAW and GMAW (mainly AC) to join our team at Captec Subsystems Engineering (CSE) in Farnborough.

To be successful, it is essential that you able to weld thin Gauge aluminium and all types of AC/DC-Welding – DTAW and GMAW (mainly AC) and have the experience to critically inspect your own work and pass to the next stage, as correct, for drawing.  You will also have experience of producing welding to customer specifications and drawing requirements and have the ability to read CAD drawings in order to produce parts to the highest specification.

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 various domains, encompassing 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 processes.

Required Experience & Skillset:

Essential experience for the role:

• Thin gauge aluminium welding
• All type of AC/DC-Welding – DTAW and GMAW (mainly AC)

As well as the above, we are looking for someone who:

• Has the ability to 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 – 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.