Electrical Engineer

Westlakes Recruit; Bristol; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialized nuclear engineering firm in the United Kingdom is seeking an Electrical Engineer to provide expertise in the design and verification of electrical systems for nuclear facilities. Responsibilities include developing electrical system designs, ensuring compliance with safety standards, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. The ideal candidate has experience in safety-critical industries, strong knowledge of electrical systems, and excellent communication skills. The role offers opportunities to work on significant nuclear projects across various stages of development.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a safety-critical industry, ideally nuclear.
• Good understanding of protection principles and installation practices.
• Familiarity with nuclear design and safety classification requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop electrical system designs, documentation, and calculations.
• Ensure designs comply with safety standards and nuclear site requirements.
• Collaborate across disciplines to ensure integration of electrical systems.

Skills

Electrical engineering experience in regulated industries

Understanding of electrical distribution systems

Experience producing electrical deliverables

Good communication skills

Tools

ETAP

Amtech

EasyPower

Job description

Role Purpose

Provide engineering expertise in the design, analysis and verification of electrical systems used across nuclear facilities. The role supports new build, operational plant upgrades and decommissioning projects. The engineer ensures electrical designs are safe, compliant and integrated effectively with control, protection and mechanical systems throughout the lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop electrical system designs including single line diagrams, load schedules, cable routing, earthing and bonding arrangements and equipment specifications.
• Produce design documentation such as electrical calculations, protection schemes, coordination studies, panel designs and installation drawings.
• Interpret and apply nuclear safety requirements, ensuring electrical systems support reliability, maintainability and defence in depth.
• Undertake power system studies including load flow, fault level analysis, discrimination and arc flash assessments where required.
• Select appropriate electrical equipment including LV/MV switchgear, transformers, UPS systems, motors, drives and distribution components suited for nuclear environments.
• Ensure designs comply with relevant standards such as BS EN 61508, BS 7671, IEC 60364 and nuclear site‑specific requirements.
• Collaborate with EC&I, control systems, mechanical, civil and safety engineers to ensure integration across interfaces.
• Support electrical aspects of instrumentation and control systems including power supplies, segregation, EMC considerations and environmental qualification.
• Participate in design reviews, HAZOPs, failure mode assessments and engineering substantiation activities.
• Provide support during manufacturing, FAT, SAT and commissioning, resolving electrical design issues and ensuring traceability to requirements.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Proven electrical engineering experience in a regulated or safety critical industry, ideally nuclear, defence or energy.
• Good understanding of electrical distribution systems, protection principles and installation practices.
• Experience producing key electrical deliverables such as SLDs, cable calculations, equipment specifications and protection settings.
• Familiarity with nuclear design expectations including safety classification, redundancy, segregation and qualification requirements.
• Knowledge of relevant UK and international standards (BS 7671, IEC/BS EN standards, ENA documents etc.).
• Good communication skills and experience working in multi‑disciplinary project teams.

Qualifications

• Desirable

Desirable

• Ability to work with power system modelling tools such as ETAP, Amtech, EasyPower or similar.
• Experience in nuclear new build, plant life extension or decommissioning.
• Understanding of C&I power supply design, UPS selection and battery sizing.
• Knowledge of EMC, lightning protection and protective earthing schemes in nuclear facilities.
• Chartered Engineer status or working towards it.
• Experience reviewing vendor packages and performing technical bid evaluations.

Why We're Different

Westlakes Recruit are a people solutions business that understands the complexities of nuclear and the importance of our clients' mission critical objectives. We develop nuclear talent pools before you know you need them! We do Nuclear. We only do Nuclear. We do all of Nuclear.

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