Senior Design Engineer

NG Bailey; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering and services firm is seeking a Senior Design Engineer specialized in cabling to manage complex projects from design to completion in East Kilbride, Scotland. The ideal candidate will have strong technical skills, an ability to build client relationships, and experience in mentoring junior engineers. This role offers a competitive salary and attractive benefits including personal development programs.

Benefits

Pension with employer contribution

25 days holiday

Private Medical Insurance

Flexible benefits including Gym Membership

Qualifications

• Experience with cabling system design and calculations.
• Ability to work autonomously with minimal direction.
• Excellent understanding of complex engineering problems.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead cabling projects from concept to detailed design.
• Conduct site surveys and collect data as needed.
• Attend design team meetings and provide engineering solutions.

Skills

Technical project management

Cabling system design

Client relationship management

Mentoring skills

Problem-solving

Education

Degree (Preferred) or HNC/HND

Tools

AutoCAD

CYMCAP

Job description

Senior Design Engineer - Cabling

Location: East Kilbride, Scotland

Employment: Permanent

Benefits: Competitive + Flexible Benefits

Summary

Freedom's Professional Services are looking for a Senior Design Engineer with a cabling specialism to join our team out of the East Kilbride office to support the growth of work within Scotland. This role will work on the design, drawing and calculations of our projects, working with the wider Design team, with site visits to carry out surveys and data collection, as required.

Key Deliverables

• Manage and lead with delivering technically demanding projects.
• Lead all types of cabling projects (including undertaking calculations and producing drawings) from concept design to detailed design unaided, ensuring that the project is cost effective and delivered on time with the deadlines in the proposal.
• Have good commercial awareness with the ability to work closely with our clients to build a strong relationship.
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of cable system routing and design including very good knowledge of software packages including AutoCAD and CYMCAP.
• Understand and mitigate complex engineering problems such as SED's.
• Mentor and provide help / guidance to Design, Assistant and Graduate Engineers.
• Attend and chair design team meetings with the team/client via teams or in person.
• Provide engineering solutions to site-based problems through TQ/RFI process.
• Have the ability to review/authorise earthing reports and drawings to a high standard, providing constructive technical feedback to all engineering levels.
• Ability to confidently conduct, supervise and demonstrate site visits to carry out earthing assessments, design commissioning, and investigations after failures.

What we're looking for

• Degree qualified is desirable, but fundamentals from HNC/HNC is essential.
• Someone who is autonomous and needs little direction to get the job done.

Benefits

• Pension with a leading provider and up to 8% employer contribution
• 25 days holiday
• Personal Wellbeing and Volunteer Days
• Private Medical Insurance
• Free 24/7 365 Employee Assistance Program to support mental health and well-being (including counselling sessions and legal advice)
• Flexible benefits to suit from Dental Insurance, Gym Memberships, Give As You Earn, Travel Insurance, Tax Free Bikes.
• Personal development programme

Next Steps

As a business, we're on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation. We'll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.

About Us

Freedom are part of the NG Bailey Group, one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training.

Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground-breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies.

Progression is something we value and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be.