Electrical Safety Engineer

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The K  team of teams delivers future-forward science, technology and engineering solutions and mission‑critical services that help governments and companies around the world accomplish their most important objectives, while also helping achieve their sustainability goals.

You’ll join a specialist engineering team supporting the safety and operational capability of critical infrastructure within a high‑hazard environment. In this role, you will contribute to assessing, maintaining, and improving electrical systems that underpin essential facilities. Working within a design authority function, you’ll help ensure infrastructure remains safe, compliant, and fit for purpose.

You will take responsibility for supporting the specification, assessment, and ongoing safety of electrical infrastructure within a high‑hazard environment. This includes producing and reviewing design packages, carrying out plant walkdowns, and contributing to safety reviews.

You will assess maintenance procedures, infrastructure condition, and ageing mechanisms to ensure continued safe operation, while also defining reliability and operational requirements. In addition, you will provide practical, cost‑effective solutions for design changes, ensure outputs from safety‑related contracts meet requirements, and promote a strong safety and security culture throughout your work.

Broad electrical engineering experience, ideally including:

• HV/MV and LV distribution systems
• Protection systems
• Control & Instrumentation (C&I)
• Experience in nuclear or other high‑hazard industries (desirable).
• Experience supporting Periodic Safety Reviews (PSR) or similar safety assurance activities.
• Strong understanding of UK/international design standards.
• Ability to make evidence‑based decisions using multiple data sources.

The role is Hybrid where 3 days per week will be spent in the office in Glasgow City Centre.

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K  is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.