Design Engineer

NG Bailey; Stowmarket; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading independent engineering firm is seeking an Overhead Line Design Engineer to join their team in Stowmarket. You will be responsible for the design and delivery of overhead line projects, ensuring compliance with industry standards. The ideal candidate will hold a degree in Structural or Electrical Engineering and possess a minimum of three years' experience in OHL design. This role offers a competitive salary and flexible benefits including 25 days of holiday, private medical insurance, and personal well-being days.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Car or car allowance

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Pension contributions

Sick pay

Private medical insurance

Flexible benefits

Personal development programme

Qualifications

• Minimum of three years' experience in OHL design at transmission and distribution voltages.
• Strong technical knowledge of OHL design principles and standards.
• Excellent communication skills for technical information dissemination.

Responsibilities

• Undertake design and development of OHL projects.
• Ensure compliance with technical and safety standards.
• Prepare proposals for OHL design projects.

Skills

Project management

Budget management

Technical communication

Design principles

Education

Degree in Structural or Electrical Engineering

Tools

PLS-CADD

PLS-POLE

PLS-TOWER

AutoCAD 3D

MicroStation CAD software

Job description

Design Engineer

Stowmarket

Permanent

Competitive Salary + Flexible Benefits

Summary

Freedom Professional Services are currently recruiting an Overhead Line Design Engineer to join our team. You will be based from either our Leeds, our Stowmarket or London offices, with options to work from Home. You will be required to Travel as and when required for client meetings, internal team meetings or site visits.

The successful candidate will work with the team lead and be responsible for the design and delivery of overhead line (OHL) new build and refurbishment projects, providing technical expertise and guidance to the team.

Some of the key deliverables in this role will include :

• Undertake the design and development of OHL projects, ensuring compliance with technical and safety standards, and client requirements.
• Responsible for all aspects of OHL design, including conductor sizing and modelling, insulation selection, lighting protection, line routing, PLS-CAD modelling, clearance checking and structure and foundation design and analysis using PLS-TOWER, or PLS-POLE.
• Production of technical documents, such as engineering reports, specifications, drawings, and calculations, ensuring accuracy and compliance with industry standards.
• Preparation of proposals for OHL design projects, including determination of design scope, allocating resource, costing program and deliverables.
• Provide technical support and guidance to the wider team, including tendering, mentoring, and training junior engineers
• Operate within the quality assurance manual of Freedom / NGB group or an established project management methodology which ensures the maintenance of equivalent standards.
• Attend site visits, inspections, and meetings as required.

What we’re looking for :

Engineers that join our team will need to have diverse skill sets to bring technical, ethical, social and management competence to every job that we work on, for all of our professional clients and key stakeholders. Strong budgetary and project management skills are required at this level, accompanied by good commercial knowledge of design and construction contract forms such as NEC, and experience of working withing the contract conditions.

The business proactively encourages chartership in engineering, and senior engineers are expected to be chartered or close to achieving chartership.

You must have Qualifications and experience in :

• Degree in Structural or Electrical Engineering or related field.
• Minimum of three year's experience in OHL design at transmission and distribution voltages, including both wood pole and lattice steel tower OHL design.
• Experience in the design of folded steel pole OHL structures is desirable.
• Strong technical knowledge and understanding of OHL design principles and standards governing OHL design in the UK.
• A good level of technical experience in the production of designs, calculations, reports & drawings associated with new build and refurbishment OHL projects from 11kV - 400kV
• Experience in using design software such as PLS-CADD, PLS-POLE, and PLS-TOWER.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Have a good understanding of CDM 2015 and the Electricity Safety, Quality and Continuity Regulations
• Sufficient knowledge of AutoCAD 3D to fulfil role.
• Knowledge of MicroStation CAD software (Desirable).
• CSCS Card Holder (Desirable).
• Full UK driving license.

Benefits :

We are always evolving our benefits to ensure we’re attracting and retaining great people. Some of what you can expect includes :

• Competitive salary
• Car or Car allowance
• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Pension with a leading provider and employer contribution
• Sick Pay
• Personal Wellbeing and Volunteer Days
• Private Medical Insurance
• Free 24 / 7 365 Employee Assistance Program to support mental health and well-being (including counselling sessions and legal advice)
• Flexible benefits to suit from Dental Insurance, Gym Memberships, Give As You Earn, Travel Insurance, Tax Free Bikes
• Personal development programme.

Next Steps :

As a business, we’re on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation.

We’ll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.

About Us

Freedom are part of the NG Bailey Group, one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training.

Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground‑breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies.

Progression is something we value and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be.