Electrical Design Engineer

Babcock; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the defense sector seeks an Electrical Design Engineer for its Plymouth site. This full-time role involves supporting design projects related to electrical power distribution systems. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in electrical engineering principles and experience with design lifecycles. The position offers hybrid working arrangements and a range of employee benefits, including a generous holiday allowance and pension scheme.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading benefit

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Qualifications

• Experience with high voltage/low voltage power distribution.
• Ability to produce electrical engineering drawings.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to design activities and site visits.
• Produce design documentation and AutoCAD drawings.
• Support project implementation and testing phases.

Skills

Electrical Engineering

Design Lifecycle

Technical Support

Education

Higher National Certificate in Electrical Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

Job description

Job Title: Electrical Design Engineer
Location: Devonport, Plymouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £43,935.00 - £53,795.00 dependent upon experience+ Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF60087

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Electrical Design Engineer at our Devonport site.

The role
As a Electrical Design Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will support the team in providing their design capability, where the activities are generally focused on the provision of new, or modification to electrical power distribution assets/equipment and their supporting supervisory control and data acquisition systems.

Day-to-day, you’ll be involved in design projects where you’ll undertake a variety of activities in support of design development and produce design deliverables across the entire design lifecycle (start-up, concept, scheme, detail, and implementation). Further responsibilities will also include:

• Providing professional and flexible technical support to design activities such as site visits, surveying electrical equipment and infrastructure and developing installation solutions
• Capturing and developing requirements and engineering delivery plans and undertaking optioneering activities
• Producing AutoCAD 2D design drawings
• Producing design documentation such as engineering management plans, design reports, equipment specifications, installation and commissioning specifications
• Providing support to implementation phase of projects (including witness factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, responding to contractor’s technical queries & radio frequency interferences and commissioning)

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 2 days per week onsite at Devonport.

Essential experience of the Electrical Design Engineer

• Understand electrical engineering principles for developing and maintaining power distribution systems
• Experience of developing designs using a typical design lifecycle
• Ability to understand and produce electrical engineering drawings and documents
• Experience with one or more of the following areas: high voltage/low voltage power distribution, supervisory control and data acquisition systems, protection systems, switchgear, transformers, rectifiers, high voltage/low voltage commissioning

Qualifications for the Electrical Design Engineer

• A Higher National Certificate in a relevant electrical engineering discipline or equivalent demonstrable experience

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 24/02/2024

#BABDESTNUC

#LI-SJ1