Senior Electronic Design Engineer

Nelson - Hybrid

Permanent, full-time 

Competitive salary + Bonus plus benefits

We're looking for a Senior Electronic Design Engineer with deep experience in IoT hardware development to lead the design and delivery of advanced, low power connected products. You'll play a key role in developing next-generation sensor and telemetry solutions - from concept to deployment - helping us build smart, reliable, and efficient electronics for challenging field environments. This is a hands-on engineering role with significant ownership, leadership responsibility, and room to shape the direction of our product platform. You will work on a variety of exciting projects, often to tight deadlines. Good time management skills are essential for the successful Senior Electronic Design Engineer. You will be part of an experienced team with a positive working environment and the scope to take charge of your own projects and develop your career.

More about the role:

• Lead the design of embedded electronics for IoT applications, including low-power systems, MCU selection, and wireless connectivity
• Develop schematics, multilayer PCB layouts, and manage BOMs using tools like Altium or KiCad
• Integrate and optimise wireless comms (e.g. LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, LTE-M, BLE, Wi-Fi)
• Ensure designs meet EMC, environmental, and industry compliance standards
• Collaborate closely with firmware, cloud, and mechanical teams to ensure seamless integration
• Mentor junior engineers and support the growth of engineering best practice
• Oversee product testing, validation, and support field trials
• Contribute to manufacturing test strategies and design-for-manufacture (DFM/DFT) improvements

 Required Skills & Experience:

• Degree in Electronics Engineering, or related discipline
• Experience designing embedded electronics, ideally for field-deployed or ruggedised products
• Strong knowledge of low-power design principles and component selection
• Experience with microcontroller systems (
• Proficiency in analogue and digital circuit design, including power supply design
• Hands-on skills in prototyping, debugging, and lab testing
• Familiarity with wireless comms hardware and antenna integration

Desirable:

• Experience in sensor integration (e.g. flow, pressure, environmental sensors)
• Knowledge of IP-rated and environmentally sealed product design
• Experience working with certification bodies for CE, UKCA, or FCC
• Understanding of OTA firmware updates, secure boot, or remote diagnostics
• Previous exposure to water, utilities, or industrial IoT sectors

What we can offer you:

• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay and leave
• Company pension 
•  Life assurance scheme (x4 salary)
• Medicash Plan (includes cash payments towards dental, medical, therapeutic treatments) with the option to add up to 4 dependants
• Refer a friend scheme
• Employee assistance programme (access to GP appointments and mental health support)
• Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays 
• Training and career progression opportunities

About us:

Detectronic is a UK specialist in Wastewater Network monitoring, providing the most cost effective and technologically advanced flow and level monitoring systems in use today, enabling customers across the water sector to prevent pollutions through the provision of asset intelligence. Detectronic designs and manufactures its own range of patented products and provides data management services through its dedicated data centre. It does this via the installation, repair and maintenance of its product lines which include a range of flow and level monitoring devices.  

Detectronic is an Adler & Allan group company. From its headquarters in Colne, Burnley, Detectronic now serves a significant proportion of the UK's water industry and has thousands of asset installations at various stages within the asset lifecycle across the UK. The businesses reach continues to expand, and the senior leadership team have exciting growth plans for domestic and international markets.

At Adler and Allan Group, we're not just a company - we're environmental champions committed to protecting our planet while helping businesses thrive. We're a diverse, dynamic team dedicated to providing top-tier environmental, energy and water infrastructure services across the UK. Our mission is clear: safeguarding the environment, minimising operational disruptions, and supporting sustainability goals for our valued clients.

Adler and Allan are committed to fostering diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We proudly embrace equal opportunities for all applicants, regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin. If you require any support with your application, whatever the circumstance, please let us know.