Electrical Design Engineer

Job Title: Electrical Design Engineer

Location: Devonport, Plymouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £43,935.00 - £53,795.00 dependent upon experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF60087

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Electrical Design Engineer at our Devonport site.

The role

As a Electrical Design Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will support the team in providing their design capability, where the activities are generally focused on the provision of new, or modification to electrical power distribution assets/equipment and their supporting supervisory control and data acquisition systems.

Day-to-day, you’ll be involved in design projects where you’ll undertake a variety of activities in support of design development and produce design deliverables across the entire design lifecycle (start-up, concept, scheme, detail, and implementation). Further responsibilities will also include:

• Providing professional and flexible technical support to design activities such as site visits, surveying electrical equipment and infrastructure and developing installation solutions
• Capturing and developing requirements and engineering delivery plans and undertaking optioneering activities
• Producing AutoCAD 2D design drawings
• Producing design documentation such as engineering management plans, design reports, equipment specifications, installation and commissioning specifications
• Providing support to implementation phase of projects (including witness factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, responding to contractor’s technical queries & radio frequency interferences and commissioning)
  
  
  

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 2 days per week onsite at Devonport.

Essential Experience Of The Electrical Design Engineer

• Understand electrical engineering principles for developing and maintaining power distribution systems
• Experience of developing designs using a typical design lifecycle
• Ability to understand and produce electrical engineering drawings and documents
• Experience with one or more of the following areas: high voltage/low voltage power distribution, supervisory control and data acquisition systems, protection systems, switchgear, transformers, rectifiers, high voltage/low voltage commissioning
  
  
  

Qualifications For The Electrical Design Engineer

• A Higher National Certificate in a relevant electrical engineering discipline or equivalent demonstrable experience
  
  
  

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What We Offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
  
  
  

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [email protected] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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