Electrical Design Engineer

CRS Professionals (UK) Ltd; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job description

About the job Electrical Design Engineer

Job Title: Electrical Design Engineer

Location: Birmingham

A great opportunity to join a well-established, independently owned M&E Consultancy with a proven reputation. Due to expansion plans, my client has recently opened a new, beautifully designed office in Birmingham, equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and designed with both comfort and productivity in mind.

As the successful candidate, you will be reporting to the Director, working on a variety of projects including commercial, education, sport and leisure, hospitality, manufacturing, healthcare, mixed use, and residential.

Job Summary

You will be responsible for the Electrical Design on a variety of projects. You will also be responsible for assisting the project lead in advising on the resourcing and workload within the projects Electrical team, setting/managing design goals along with the Project Senior, attending weekly team meetings, and assisting in seeking ways of improving the efficiency and productivity of the team.

Duties

• You will be working on multiple projects and organise your own workload, meeting all assigned deadlines agreed with the Project Lead.
• Responsible for full detailed electrical design and should expect to complete these exercises on your own with support from the Project Lead.
• Responsible for calculation works to prove design for LV Distribution, Lighting, small power, fire, and security alarms.
• Coordinate design with mechanical design members.
• Feed into design team meetings with some attendance where required, alongside Project Lead and report back to the wider design team on progress and actions.
• Manage personal design workloads providing completed works to the Project Lead for QA in a timely manner. Dates should be agreed with project lead and aligned with client target dates to ensure timely issue of information.
• Constantly seek ways of improving the efficiency of your work and of your team.
• Assist sustainability engineers with modelling input data and criteria, including the review of completed reports issued by the department for correctness.
• Show great involvement in teamwork and promote consultation and collaboration with your team fellows.
• Contribute to the development of junior team members.
• Ensure all QA procedures and guidelines are followed.

Technical Ability

As the successful Electrical Design Engineer, you will have a good working understanding of current building regulations, CIBSE documentation, IEE Wiring Regulations, British standards, BSRIA documentation, and all other general design guides associated with the building services industry.

It is essential that you are IT literate, with a working knowledge of office applications, AutoCAD, Revit, and Hevacomp.

Ideally, you will be working towards Member of CIBSE/IET accreditation as a minimum and will have a minimum of 3-4 years experience in the Building Services industry.

This is a great opportunity to join a growing team with a great reputation in the industry!