Electrical Senior Design Engineer (HV & LV) - Water

Galliford Try; Warrington; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company in the UK is looking for an experienced Electrical Senior Design Engineer to join their Engineering Design Team in Warrington. This technical role demands over 7 years of experience in the water and wastewater sector, excellent design skills, and strong communication abilities. The ideal candidate will ensure design compliance and quality while mentoring junior engineers. The company offers competitive salaries, generous benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Generous holiday entitlement

Corporate discounts

Car benefit scheme

Comprehensive pension plan

Private medical scheme

Qualifications

• Proficient in the use of modelling software for HV & LV.
• Competent in generating electrical installation packs including designs.
• Educated to Degree level in Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in Municipal Water and Wastewater sectors.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical compliance and quality on design outputs.
• Operate as discipline lead for a project.
• Assist the Principal Designer in ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Develop and support staff towards professional accreditation.

Skills

HV & LV modelling

AutoCAD/Draftsight

Electrical installation packs

Electrical switch rooms design

Electrical design management

Communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Attention to detail

Education

Degree in Engineering

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Role - Electrical Senior Design Engineer

Location - Warrington (Other locations may be considered)

Purpose of the role:

As a Electrical Senior Design Engineer you will be an important member of the Engineering Design Team and will be required to work with the Principal Engineer(s), Design Team, Design Manager(s) and Design Leads to deliver design to the highest quality to GT process and in compliance with the BMS and H&S Regulations. This is a technical role, engaged directly on projects, which requires competency in technical design delivery in the water and wastewater industry. The Senior Design Engineer can have line management responsibility for design engineers of the same discipline, plus non-discipline design engineers/others if required.

As well as providing direction and assisting with innovations, you will be expected to contribute to the engineering governance of your discipline design activities, ensuring that design integrates with the other discipline design production activities, providing technical support to the supply chain procurement activities and supporting site activities as required. You will also be expected to support the Discipline Manager and Principal Engineer(s) for knowledge sharing and development of the discipline engineers, including mentoring and support of early careers.

What will you be doing:

• Provide technical compliance and quality on design outputs. Default checker for design outputs to ensure technical assurance and quality control.
• Operate as discipline lead for a project.
• Seek optimal solutions/efficient designs that balance capital and operational cost benefits.
• Assist the Principal Designer Lead in ensuring CDM regulations compliance.
• Design for buildability, safe construction, and operation, working alongside project delivery peers.
• Assist in ensuring procedural governance is adhered to.
• Working as part of the Design team to ensure scheme designs adhere to client specifications and standards.
• Working as part of the Design team to ensure full compliance with relevant Health, Safety and Environmental Legislation.
• Promoting innovation, value engineering and digital design.
• Technical problem solving throughout the project life cycle (e.g. from concept design through to final construction support), moreover, to ensure that potential issues are identified, mitigated and or safely managed through technical governance and risk and opportunity management.
• Assist with pre-contract design activities.
• Provide lessons learnt on projects to the Design Team and Discipline Design Manager(s), covering good and bad to feedback to be promoted or avoided on future schemes.
• Line Management of multi-disciplinary Design Engineers.
• Sharing and imparting knowledge to our teams, this is essential, as is the need to mentor and develop our expanding design team.
• Developing and supporting staff to encourage them towards accreditation with professional bodies (e.g., ICE, IET, IMechE, IChemE).

About you:

• Proficient in the use of modelling software such as ETAP to carry out HV & LV modelling, including the completion of protection & grading studies, system load flow and short circuit calculations.
• Proficient with AutoCAD/Draftsight.
• Competent in generating electrical installation packs, including but not limited to HV & LV cable calculations, single line diagrams, cable block diagrams, termination details & cable schedules.
• Competent in generating layouts for electrical switch rooms, cable routes & substations.
• Competent in the organisation & management of consultants in the formulation of earthing design & studies.
• Selection and appraisal of suppliers and their design submissions.
• Knowledge of C&G 2382-18 BS7671 18th Edition Wiring Regulations, NICEIC Electrical Installation Certificates and HV standards & compliance.
• Educated to Degree level in Engineering or other equivalent qualification preferable.
• Demonstrable experience of + 7 years working within the Municipal Water and Wastewater industries, working with a variety of clients.
• Preference for Chartered Member of a recognised professional Engineering body.
• Competent in a contracting / consulting environment, with commercial awareness.
• Excellent knowledge of multi-disciplinary engineering design in water engineering.
• Competent with strong experience in checking & approving discipline design packages.
• Competent with strong experience in reviewing subcontractors’ documentation.
• Knowledge of current H&S legislation and British Standards and experience in applying them across designs.
• Experience of working in accordance with QA and H&S procedures.
• Excellent Communication and Stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent IT skills – with experience of using Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Cost / Performance management systems.
• Provide leadership, direction and encouragement to the design team.
• Focus to drive and deliver results.
• Attention to detail.
• Alignment with the Galliford Try values – Excellence, Passion, Integrity, and Collaboration.
• A flexible attitude to work.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Willingness and commitment to embrace innovations to assist the business.
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload to ensure that timescales are met.
• Take responsibility for personal development and enable and support the learning of others.
• Good negotiation and persuading skills.
• Able to work collaboratively with others to form strong positive working relationships with colleagues and clients.
• Able to recognise own impact on others and adapt approach where appropriate.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Demonstrate pride in work, leading by example.

What We Can Offer in Return:

With an impressive order book of over £3.7 billion we are one of the industry’s leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK’s most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment. With an ambitious strategy, we’re poised for further growth and success, so if you’re committed, talented and enthusiastic, Galliford Try is the right place for you.

We are committed to maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of all our people, through our ‘Be Well’ programme which offers discounts on certain products, advice and support for a range of issues.

We invest in high-quality training for employees of all levels, from our leadership development framework to our apprenticeship programmes. Through our Career Paths initiative, individuals receive tailored training and support to fulfil their potential.

Our industry is all about creating talented teams that excel in their areas of expertise. As an employer, we know you are most motivated to give your best when you feel valued and engaged.

Our benefits:

• Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
• A wide range of corporate discounts
• Opportunity to be enrolled onto our car benefit scheme
• Cycle to Work schemes
• Comprehensive pension plan
• Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
• Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees and our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those who need it
• Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role

About us:

Galliford Try is one of the UK’s most formidable construction businesses with an enviable track record of delivering schemes that strive to provide positive, lasting change for the communities we work in. As a FTSE 250 organisation, we return £1.5 billion in turnover and employ over 3500 people across three very successful Divisions: Building, Infrastructure and Specialist Services. As one of the UK’s top principal contractors you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the UK’s most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment.

Our Environment Business

Following various acquisitions, we are now the largest Tier 1 Contractor operating in the UK Water / Environment sector with a long-term portfolio trading £400 million a year. As part of our Source to Sea Strategy we have bought together all aspects of Engineering Design under one Business Unit which is expanding to provide in-house design support to our various Regional Business Units across the UK.

For more information on this role or to enquire about other positions available within our Environment business please contact Adam Wright on [e-mail]

Additional Information:

Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full‑time, part‑time and / or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process.

We encourage you and would be grateful if you could confirm any requirements we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you.

Don’t meet every requirement of the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Galliford Try, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement of the role, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Disability Confident:

As a Disability Confident employer, we have committed to offer an interview to any candidate with a long‑term health condition or disability that meet the essential criteria for the advertised position. Please contact the Resourcing Partner listed within the job advert if you believe this applies to you. We will also take the opportunity to discuss any adjustments required for your interview.

A full job description for this role is available upon request.

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