Senior Electrical Designer

PD&MS Group; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Electrical Designer to join their dynamic team in Aberdeen. This role offers the opportunity to work on innovative projects that drive the energy transition. You will be responsible for producing high-quality electrical design deliverables, ensuring compliance with health, safety, and quality standards. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in electrical engineering, proficiency in relevant software tools, and a commitment to continuous professional development. Join a forward-thinking company that values diversity and empowers its employees to make a difference in the energy sector.

Qualifications

• Experience in electrical design, preferably in Oil & Gas projects.
• Valid offshore certification is required for this role.

Responsibilities

• Produce engineering design deliverables while ensuring compliance with project requirements.
• Perform offshore surveys as required and maintain technical quality.

Skills

Electrical design experience

Safety awareness

Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality systems

Managing scope budgets

Continuous professional development

Education

HNC in relevant engineering discipline

Tools

AUTOCAD

Microstation

Bluebeam

Job description

About The Role

Do you enjoy a challenge? Do you want to make a difference? Are you ready to engineer change within the industry and wider community?

At PD&MS, we’re determined to help drive the change that our world needs to see. To support current and new customers to be part of the energy transition, through future-friendly solutions.

This is a secondment position based in our client office in Aberdeen city centre therefore only available on a PAYE contract / employee basis. Candidates will be required to perform offshore surveys as and when required and will need to hold valid offshore certification.

You can be part of our vision!

Working Pattern: Long-term Contract PAYE / Employee / Full Time

As the Senior Electrical Designer, you will:

• Work as part of a design team and produce engineering design deliverables. The Designer is responsible for ensuring that designs meet project requirements. This role is required to execute Electrical discipline design activities within budget and schedule.
• Carry out work in accordance with PD&MS and project Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality systems.
• Maintain the required technical quality of work.
• Identify scope and schedule changes in accordance with the MoC Process.
• Ensure that designs comply with the relevant procedures and regulations.
• Ensure, as far as practically possible, that all assigned work is carried out in compliance with agreed budget and schedule.
• Keep up to date with technical developments, National and International standards and legislative requirements related to discipline workscope.
• Encourage and provide lateral learning within the discipline.
• Provide technical assistance to staff as required.
• Assist the Lead Designer and others when requested in the execution of their responsibilities and duties.
• Have a flexible working attitude to deal with an environment that operates 24hrs/day 365 days/year is essential.
• Be technically competent in own discipline and actively maintain own competence according to standards and pursue continuous professional development.
• Perform offshore surveys as and when required.

About You

You’ll have experience of:

• Electrical design experience (Oil & Gas preferred but not essential) in delivery of Electrical projects.
• Safety awareness and culture in all modifications involved in.
• Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality systems.
• Working with other designers and coordinating work tasks to achieve required plan dates.
• Managing own scope budgets, producing scope estimates and recognizing and controlling scope change.
• Software packages used for Electrical engineering design:

- AUTOCAD (and RasterCAD)

- Microstation

- Bluebeam

• Producing the below design deliverables:

- Block Diagrams

- Single Line Diagrams

- Termination Diagrams

- Interconnection Diagrams

- Electrical Equipment Layout Diagrams

- Cable Schedules

- Cable Routing Drawings

- Bill of Materials

- Material Requisitions

Personal attributes

• Go the extra mile
• Empower our people
• Never get complacent
• Engage our partners
• Step up and deliver

If this sounds like you, then you could be a perfect fit.

Qualifications

• HNC in relevant engineering discipline.
• Valid offshore certification.

About Us

PD&MS has been engineering solutions in the energy industry and beyond since 2002; our ability to combine innovative ideas with technical expertise sets us apart. A flexible, full-service provider committed to supporting the energy transition, we deliver high-quality project work across the entire lifecycle of assets within the oil and gas, renewables and nuclear sectors. But whoever we work with, it’s the energy, professionalism and purpose of our people that really makes the difference.

Be who you’re meant to be, with PD&MS

We firmly believe in a work culture in which individual differences are a source of collective strength and pride; everybody can perform to the best of their abilities and on a level playing field; and all colleagues feel they’re part of our team and their voices will be heard. We’re already heartened by the diversity within our organization, but we recognize that there’s always more we can do to improve further. We welcome applications from all persons regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status.

We’re energized by the prospect of operating successfully today, tomorrow and far into the future. But we’re also driven to ensure that our business activities are conducted in socially responsible, morally acceptable and sustainable ways.