Electronics Sustaining Engineer

Electronics Sustaining Engineer

As a global market leader in the world of eyecare, Keeler's dynamic business creates an exciting opportunity for career development. We are a vibrant, future-facing organisation, with over a century of industry expertise. The highly-trusted Keeler brand supports our consistent revenue growth. We actively foster a diverse, inclusive work environment and continuously seek to drive sustainability across our organisation. Keeler is a part of Halma, a global group of life-saving technology companies focused on growing a safer, cleaner, healthier future for everyone, every day. Employing over 7,000 people in more than 20 countries, Halma has major operations in the UK, mainland Europe, the USA and Asia Pacific. Halma is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LON: HLMA) and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 index.

About the Role

The Electronics Sustaining Engineer is accountable for ensuring the long-term performance, availability, and continuous improvement of Keeler's electronic product platforms across their lifecycle.

This role plays a key part in safeguarding product continuity and customer outcomes by proactively managing component lifecycle, supply chain resilience, and in-market performance, while driving targeted design improvements to enhance reliability, cost, and manufacturability.

Working at the intersection of engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing, the role ensures that existing platforms remain robust, compliant, and competitive, whilst providing a critical bridge into future product development.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Continuity & Availability Own the ongoing viability of electronic systems by proactively managing component obsolescence, sourcing risks, and supply constraints, ensuring uninterrupted product supply and minimal business disruption.
• Sustaining & Continuous Improvement Lead and implement engineering changes (ECOs) to improve product reliability, performance, and cost, using structured problem solving and data-driven decision making.
• Failure Analysis & Field Performance Drive root cause investigations for production and field issues, translating insights into robust corrective and preventive actions that enhance customer experience and product quality.
• Supply Chain Integration Partner closely with supply chain to identify second sources, alternative components, and design-for-availability strategies, embedding resilience into product design.
• Technical Ownership of Released Products Act as the technical authority for released electronic platforms, maintaining deep system knowledge, documentation, and design intent throughout the product lifecycle.
• Bridge to Innovation & R&D Work hand-in-hand with R&D engineers on major platform updates and redesigns, ensuring continuity from legacy systems while supporting scalable, future-ready architectures.
• Compliance & Quality Ensure all changes and sustaining activities maintain compliance with relevant regulatory, safety, and quality standards, aligned with Keeler and Halma expectations.

Impact:

Revenue Protection

Sustained product availability and reduced supply disruption

Margin Improvement

Cost optimisation and design efficiency gains

Customer Outcomes

Enhanced reliability and improved field performance

Organisational Capability

Linking sustaining engineering with innovation pipelines

Qualifications and Experience:

• Degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering (or equivalent practical experience)
• Strong foundation in analog and digital electronics, with hands-on experience in circuit design, testing, and troubleshooting
• Comfortable working with lab equipment (e.g. oscilloscopes, multimeters, signal generators) to diagnose and resolve issues
• Experience owning or supporting products through their lifecycle, ideally in a sustaining or product support environment
• Practical experience with PCB design and schematic capture tools, and an understanding of design for manufacturability (DFM)
• Proven ability to lead structured problem solving, root cause analysis, and failure investigation, translating findings into robust corrective actions
• Working knowledge of reliability engineering principles and how they apply to real-world product performance
• Good understanding of component lifecycle, obsolescence, and supply chain considerations, with the ability to identify and implement viable alternatives
• Familiarity with relevant regulatory and quality standards (e.g. CE, UL, IPC), and how they apply to electronic products
• Exposure to embedded systems or firmware debugging would be beneficial

Work Environment

Combination of lab, office, and manufacturing floor settings. The role may involve hands-on testing and interaction with hardware systems

About You

• A proactive engineer who takes ownership of outcomes, not just tasks
• Comfortable operating across technical, operational, and commercial interfaces
• Strong systems thinker with the ability to balance short-term fixes and long-term solutions
• Collaborative, with the ability to influence across functions and levels

What We Offer You

• Competitive Remuneration Package including base Salary, performance related bonus structure, pension scheme, and other associated benefits.
• The potential to work in collaborative work environment within Keeler and Halma Group
• Career Development Opportunities within Keeler and Halma Group

Location of the role is Windsor, though may require occasional travel.