Work your English electrical engineer secures after a month (4,4)
I believe the answer is:
jane eyre
'work' is the definition.
(literary work by Charlotte Bronte)
'your english electrical engineer secures after a month' is the wordplay.
'your' becomes 'yr'.
'english electrical engineer' becomes 'eee' (this might be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'secures' indicates putting letters inside.
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'a month' becomes 'jan' (Jan is an example).
'yr' put into 'eee' is 'eeyre'.
'eeyre' put after 'jan' is 'JANE EYRE'.
(Other definitions for jane eyre that I've seen before include "Penniless orphan" , "1847 English novel" , "Charlotte Bronte's most famous novel" , "Book by Charlotte Bronte" , "Novel heroine, becomes Mrs Rochester" .)