Electrical Design Engineer

Vital Energi; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance/Company car

Pension scheme

Death-in-service insurance

Employee assistance programme

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Onsite gym/wellbeing centre

Flexible working

Job summary

Vital Energi, a leading provider of renewable energy infrastructure, is seeking Electrical Design Engineers of varying levels to join the Project Development team in Glasgow. You will lead on a diverse mix of industrial, commercial, and public-sector projects from early concept through detailed design.

Reporting to a Principal Engineer or Design Manager, you’ll influence pre-construction strategies, review third-party designs, and drive PCSAs and investment-grade proposals that shape major

Qualifications

• Degree level or equivalent (HNC/ HND) with 3–5 years' relevant experience in consultancy or contracting.
• Knowledge of MS Office applications (Word, Excel).
• Experience using Trimble ProDesign (Amtech).
• Good understanding of the IET Wiring Regulations and building services design.

Responsibilities

• Lead electrical design work during pre-construction and project delivery.
• Ensure timely execution of electrical design deliverables on tender/bid projects.
• Provide guidance to internal stakeholders and clients at technical meetings.
• Coordinate engineering services and engage equipment vendors for compliant selections.
• Ensure designs meet industry standards and comply with CDM and company processes.
• Survey and report on existing electrical installations and review third-party designs.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver technically compliant tenders.

Skills

Electrical design

HV design

Project delivery

Coordination

Building services

MS Office

ProDesign/Amtech

Education

Degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Trimble ProDesign (Amtech)

Job description

Would you like to be part of Vital Energi’s Strategy of Growth?

If so, we are looking for a Electrical Design Engineers to join our growing Project Development team, this is an excellent opportunity to run and build your own projects. Our office is located in Glasgow but we do offer flexible working.

We are looking for design engineers of all Levels-

• Intermediate
• Senior
• Principal

About the Role

Step into a role where your electrical engineering expertise genuinely shapes the built environment. Reporting to a Principal Engineer or Design Manager, you’ll take the lead on a diverse mix of industrial, commercial, and public‑sector projects. From early concept development right through to detailed design.

You’ll influence pre‑construction strategies, review third‑party designs, and play a key part in producing PCSAs and investment‑grade proposals that drive major decisions.

You’ll join a collaborative team of electrical engineers, designing everything from electrical plant layouts and switch rooms to substations, cable sizing, lighting systems, containment, and wider building services. If you bring HV design experience, even better it’s a strong advantage.

Key Duties:

• Electrical design work during pre-construction stages and during project delivery as required by the department’s workload.
• Responsible for the timely execution of electrical design deliverables on tender/bid projects
• Day to day decision making on tenders and projects. Provides advice to internal stakeholders and clients
• Takes a holistic view in the selection and application of engineering concepts and solutions
• Represent Vital Energi at technical meetings with customers, professional teams and contractor teams
• Ensure engineering calculations and drawings meet required robust industry and legal standards
• Survey and report on existing electrical installations
• Work within multi-disciplinary work winning teams to deliver technically compliant tenders
• Lead on the coordination of engineering services
• Engage equipment vendor supply chain to ensure electrical equipment selections are valid technically, specification compliant, value for money and available within programme
• Have an awareness of cost implications within design.
• Assist with effectively dealing with design issues and minimising their impact.
• Ability to design systems in the form of calculations, equipment selection and process operation.
• Liaising with external designers, customers and Vital Energi’s in‑house project teams.
• Compliance with CDM requirements and our in in‑house design processes.
• Ability to design systems in the form of schematics, calculations, equipment selection, detailed drawings and provide inputs for control operating strategies.
• Ensuring compliance with legislation and best practice with company procedures.
• Takes a holistic view in the selection and application of engineering concepts and solutions

Skills/Experience

The Person:

• The successful candidates will ideally be qualified at degree level or similar (HNC/ HND), with a minimum of circa 3 to 5 years’ relevant experience working for a consultancy or a contractor. The individuals will have:
• Knowledge of MS office applications word, excel
• Experience using Trimble ProDesign (Amtech)
• Good understanding of the latest edition of the IET Wiring Regulation
• Sound knowledge of electrical building services design
• Ability to prioritize own workload and work to deadlines.
• Sound knowledge & working application of key health and safety issues and legislation.
• Chairing/facilitation of meeting skills

The Company

Vital Energi is a leading provider of renewable energy infrastructure and systems to the public and private sectors. We are supporting Hospitals, Universities, New Build developments, Towns and Cities as well as Industrial and Commercial clients to decarbonise their buildings.

We have and continue to work on ground‑breaking projects throughout the UK which are supporting the UK’s Net Zero targets, such as the recently announced £1 billion low‑carbon infrastructure project for Westminster.

With plans to double our headcount over the coming years, supported by offices opening in new locations across the country and our strong investment pipeline, coupled with our expansion into new markets such as industrial power generation with our very own Energy‑from‑Waste facility, there is no better time to join the family here at Vital Energi.

The Package:

• Salary negotiable DOE
• Car Allowance/ Company Car
• Paid Professional engineering institutions (IET,CIBSE Etc..)
• Contributory Company Pension Scheme
• Non‑contributory death‑in‑service insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 25 Days Holiday plus 8 days bank holidays.
• Additional holidays awarded in line with length of service
• Option to purchase/sell additional holidays
• Onsite gym/wellbeing centre at our Blackburn Head Office
• Discounted gym membership across the UK
• Flexible working

Applications will be processed within 28 days of receipt. If you have not heard from us within this time period it will mean that your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful.

The company is opposed to all forms of discrimination and will select for employment, training and promotion on the basis of suitability for the job and/ or merit. It is company policy that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of sex, race, colour, age, ethnic or national origins, political affiliations, religious beliefs, marital status, physical disability or is disadvantaged by unjustifiable conditions or requirements.

Applicants must havethe unrestricted and ongoing right to work in the UK for the duration of employment, without the need for sponsorship. Due to the nature of this role, we are unable to support visa sponsorship or employ individuals with time‑limited permission or conditions attached to their right to work in the UK