Senior Electrical Design Engineer

CIBSE Journal; Hemel Hempstead; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Car

Annual bonus

Generous holiday allowance

Long-term career stability

Occasional international travel

Job summary

Diagonal J Ltd, acting as employment agency, seeks a Senior Electrical Design Engineer to deliver turnkey electrical and instrumentation systems for aero engine testing. You will work across concept to handover with autonomy in a safety-critical, highly regulated environment.

You will engage in FAT/SAT and commissioning, with opportunities for overseas travel. The role requires hands-on problem solving on complex projects and strong attention to detail.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering turnkey electrical and instrumentation systems from concept to handover.
• Experience in safety critical engineering/high integrity sectors.
• Strong electrical design capabilities including full schematics and BOMs.
• Experience with instrumentation, calibration and measurement systems.
• Familiarity with sensors, transducers and related instrumentation.
• Experience with FAT, SAT and commissioning.

Responsibilities

• Deliver turnkey projects in bespoke electrical and instrumentation systems for aero engine testing and development.
• Perform FAT, SAT and commissioning activities.
• Work on projects from concept to handover with autonomy.
• Possibility of overseas travel for site commissioning.

Skills

Project engineering lifecycle

Safety critical engineering

Electrical design schematics BOMs

Instrumentation calibration systems

Sensors and transducers

FAT SAT commissioning

Tools

AutoCAD Electrical

NI Signal Conditioning / Data Acquisition

NI LabVIEW

Vibration systems knowledge

Security clearance

Job description

SENIOR ELECTRICAL DESIGN ENGINEER

• Do you like defining and designing solutions to complex engineering challenges?

• Would you relish autonomy and responsibility for cradle-to-grave projects?

• Have you enjoyed working in a safety critical sector such as Oil & Gas, Energy, High Integrity Instrumentation, Defence, Aerospace or similar?

Our client seeks a Senior Electrical Design Engineer to deliver turnkey projects in bespoke electrical and instrumentation systems for aero engine testing and development.

THE ROLE

This is real hands-on problem solving engineering, involving interesting and complex work in an exciting sector. On offer is a competitive package with a well-established and highly respected independent business that boasts exceptional staff retention and team stability.

Key skills required:

• Understanding of project engineering from concept to handover
• Knowledge of safety critical engineering / high integrity sectors
• Electrical Design, including full schematics and BOMs
• Instrumentation, calibration and measurement systems
• Sensors, transducers and associated instrumentation.
• FAT, SAT & Commissioning

Benefits

• Up to 75,000 basic salary
• Company Car
• Annual bonus
• Generous Holiday Allowance
• Long-term career stability
• Opportunity to work on technically challenging and bespoke projects
• Occasional international travel
  

ABOUT YOU

You should enjoy solving practical engineering problems and having autonomy for projects through their full lifecycle. The consequence of engineering failure should be at the heart of a safety critical mindset and reflect in the attention to detail in your solutions definitions and electrical design. You should also be prepared for some overseas travel for the purpose of commissioning your work on site with customers.

In addition to the key skills above, the following would be advantageous:

• AutoCAD electrical
• NI Signal Conditioning / Data Acquisition
• NI LabVIEW software
• Vibration Systems Knowledge
• Previous or current SC security clearance

Applicants may currently be working as Electrical Design Engineers, EC&I Engineers, Instrumentation Engineers, Controls & Instrumentation Engineers, Test Systems Engineers, Project Engineers or similar within aerospace, defence, oil & gas, energy, scientific instrumentation or other highly regulated engineering environments.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Our client is a highly respected specialist engineering business designing and delivering bespoke test and development systems for the aerospace sector. They have been established for 36 years and have built a world-wide reputation and a long standing international customer base. They boast exceptional staff retention and team stability; this vacancy has arisen due to the retirement of a long‑serving senior engineer.

Diagonal J Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

We are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment process and welcome applications from all qualified individuals. Selection decisions are made solely on the basis of skills, experience and suitability for the role.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will be happy to discuss how we can support you.