Senior Primary Design Engineer

Freedom; Stowmarket; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Primary Design Engineer to join their innovative team. This exciting role involves delivering high-quality designs for electrical substations, ensuring compliance with safety and environmental standards. You will collaborate with experienced engineers and have the opportunity to work on projects both in the UK and internationally. With a focus on professional development and a commitment to employee well-being, this company offers a competitive salary, flexible benefits, and a supportive work environment. If you're passionate about engineering and looking to make a significant impact, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Car/Car Allowance

Pension Plan

Private Medical Insurance

25 Days Holiday

Flexible Benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering or equivalent required.
• Knowledge of CAD and Substation Design essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver substation design projects to quality and profitability targets.
• Provide design work for primary plant and substation equipment.

Skills

Substation Design

CAD

Analytical Skills

Transformers Knowledge

Cable Design

Education

Degree in Engineering

Job description

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Permanent – Full Time

Competitive Salary + Car/ Car Allowance + Flexible Benefits

Summary

Freedom Electrical Design Services are currently recruiting a Substation Design Engineer to join our team. The Substation Design Engineer will be responsible for delivering design of EHV , HV and LV electrical substation projects both in the UK and internationally, meeting safety, quality, and environmental requirements.

Stowmarket or London (Hybrid)

Permanent – Full Time

Competitive Salary + Car/ Car Allowance + Flexible Benefits

Summary

Freedom Electrical Design Services are currently recruiting a Substation Design Engineer to join our team. The Substation Design Engineer will be responsible for delivering design of EHV , HV and LV electrical substation projects both in the UK and internationally, meeting safety, quality, and environmental requirements.

The role will require travel to other Freedom offices and client site locations across the UK with overnight stays where necessary

Some of the key deliverables in this role will include:

• Deliver substation primary plant and cable design projects to targeted levels of quality, timeliness and profitability
• Deliver detailed Substation plant design, layouts, plant specifications, design calculations, cable design, cable route feasibility survey etc.
• Seek out innovative solutions to technical problems.
• Advice and design work for primary plant including transformers, GIS and AIS switchgear cables and all substation equipment and substation design up to 11kV up to 400kV.
• Have sound analytical and numeracy skills including short-circuit forces calculation, cable rating calculations, short-circuit current calculations and lightning protection calculations.
• Have a solid understanding of the interface requirements of the civil/structural and OHL aspects of HV substations.
  
  

What we’re looking for:

If the above sounds exciting and something you're well versed in, then we'd love to hear from you! You will work with the Senior Electrical Engineer and assist with the design and delivery of new build and refurbishment projects. Ideally qualifications and experience in:

• Degree in Engineering or equivalent
• Knowledge of CAD
• Knowledge of Substation Design
• Full UK Driving license
  
  

Benefits:

We're always evolving our benefits to ensure we're attracting and retaining great people. Some of what you can expect includes:

• Competitive Salary on Offer
• Car/Car allowance
• Pension with a leading provider and employer contribution
• Personal Wellbeing and Volunteer Days
• Private Medical Insurance
• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
• 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.

You will be working as part of a team where we are committed to creating a culture where we treat each other fairly and with respect, recognising everyone as an individual.

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.

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