Senior EC&I Design Engineer

Babcock International Group; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 49,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in engineering and defense is seeking a Senior Electrical Control & Instrumentation Engineer in Plymouth. The role involves providing technical support for crucial systems at Devonport, focusing on safety and design processes. With competitive compensation and benefits, this position promises engaging challenges in a pivotal engineering environment.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Considerable operational knowledge of both hardware and software EC&I systems.
• Sound understanding of relevant industry legislation.
• Experience developing EC&I systems through design lifecycles.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support for EC&I assets within defuel facilities.
• Conduct asset condition surveys and obsolescence studies.
• Support design development and produce maintenance documentation.

Skills

Operational knowledge of EC&I systems

Understanding of safety legislation

Stakeholder management

Understanding and producing electrical drawings

Education

Degree in electrical engineering or HNC

Tools

AutoCAD

Job description

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Job Title: Senior Electrical Control & Instrumentation Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working
Compensation: £49,- £61, dependent upon experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Electrical Control & Instrumentation Engineer for Defuel Facilities at our Devonport site.

The role

As a Senior Electrical Control & Instrumentation (EC&I) Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary where you’ll join a team that are responsible for providing both technical and design support for facilities, systems and equipment at Devonport that are essential to the nuclear defuel programme.

You will be responsible for determining the condition of EC&I assets within defuel facilities and establishing requirements for system/equipment upgrades, life extension and replacement. The role will also require you to provide EC&I design support to projects required for the defuel facilities.

Day to day, you’ll provide professional and flexible technical support to the ongoing operations and maintenance of EC&I systems and equipment within Devonport’s defuel facilities. This includes:

• Undertaking asset condition surveys and obsolescence studies.
• Specifying replacement equipment/components and supporting the production of configuration documentation for permanent modifications.
• Maintaining configuration of technical drawings and documentation.
• Supporting fault diagnosis and rectification.
• Supporting the design development of EC&I systems through a variety of activities and production of deliverables, such as capturing requirements, specification writing, producing maintenance/commissioning documentation and providing support to implementation activities.

This role is full time, 36 hours and will be based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard with hybrid working from home arrangements.

Essential experience of the Senior Electrical Control & Instrumentation Engineer:

• Considerable operational knowledge of EC&I systems, both hardware and software-based systems and equipment.
• Sound understanding of relevant industry legislation for electrical systems, particularly functional and machinery safety.
• Instrumentation for electrical plant.
• Demonstrable experience of developing EC&I systems through typical design lifecycles.
• Stakeholder management to capture project scopes and requirements for successful project delivery.
• Ability to understand and produce electrical engineering drawings using AutoCAD.

Qualifications for the Senior Electrical Control & Instrumentation Engineer:

• Degree in an appropriate electrical engineering discipline or significant experience with HNC.
• Professional registration with an engineering institute is desirable.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at .

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Autonomy to perform the role.
• Opportunity to work on some of the most exciting engineering projects this country has to offer.
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.