Electrical Design Engineer

• Job Type: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
• Working Pattern: Flexible (Optional 4-day or 5-day working week)
• Security Clearance: Must be able to obtain UK Security Clearance

Our client is a highly respected engineering specialist delivering top-tier electrical and control design solutions across a range of strictly regulated sectors. They are known for providing an exceptional, flexible working environment that includes optional compressed hours (a 4-day working week), a substantial 8% company pension contribution, and an innovative profit-sharing scheme that feeds directly into a staff-managed wellbeing fund.

This is a core, design-centric role within an expanding engineering team. While our client operates extensively across the nuclear sector (including new build, generation, decommissioning, and defence),
previous nuclear experience is not required
.

If you have a strong background in alternative regulated or industrial environments - such as Oil & Gas, energy, water, or heavy manufacturing - you will be fully supported with the training needed to adapt your skills to nuclear-specific standards.

• Output Production: Develop high-quality electrical and control designs, including schematics, layout drawings, schedules, and associated design documentation under the guidance of senior team members.
• Engineering Judgement: Apply sound technical knowledge to equipment selection and design decisions, ensuring all outputs are practical, compliant, and buildable.

• Requirement Interpretation: Analyse project specifications, identifying any gaps, assumptions, or technical inconsistencies, and raise them appropriately.
• Problem Solving: Resolve routine technical design challenges within your area of competence, incorporating review comments accurately.
• Cross-Functional Teamwork: Work closely with Project Managers, fellow engineers, and production/commissioning teams to ensure designs support programme, cost, and build objectives.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Contribute constructively to technical discussions, design reviews, and occasional client or supplier site visits.

• Standards Adherence: Ensure all design work complies with internal company procedures, ISO standards, and relevant health and safety requirements.
• Record Keeping: Maintain clear, accurate, and well-structured engineering records suitable for formal checking and handover.

• Education: HNC/HND or equivalent qualification in Electrical, Control, or a related engineering discipline (a degree is advantageous but not essential).
• Experience Track Record: Typically 3+ years of experience working in an EC&I design role within an engineering, industrial, or regulated environment.
• Sector Background: Experience in regulated industries (e.g., Oil & Gas, energy, utilities, or manufacturing).
• Vetting: Able to successfully undergo UK security vetting.

• Design Tools: Solid understanding of electrical and control design fundamentals, with experience using CAD platforms such as AutoCAD, EPLAN, or equivalent tools.
• Equipment Specification: Competent in specifying EC&I equipment for control panels and associated systems, with particular exposure to relay-based control applications.
• Systems Awareness: A good working awareness of related EC&I topics-such as functional safety, PLC-based systems, BS7671, instrumentation, and MCC/switch gear-sufficient to collaborate effectively with Senior and Lead Engineers.

• Ownership: A professional approach with a commitment to taking ownership of assigned tasks and raising potential issues early.
• Mindset: A practical, positive, and solution-focused approach to engineering challenges.
• Growth: Curious, improvement-minded, and eager to learn better ways of working within a structured engineering hierarchy.