Principal EC&I Design Engineer (Building Services)

  • EST0002I7
  • On Site
  • Birchwood, England, United Kingdom
  • Full time
We’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for us. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the Opportunity

We are currently looking for a Principal Electrical and Building Services Engineer to join the team in Birchwood, with experience in the nuclear (or other regulated) industry. The role will be to support the EC&I Responsible Engineer in the definition, implementation and delivery of engineering design work that achieves safety, functional and business requirements throughout the design phases. The role will also involve working with engineering teams to deliver specific packages of work and therefore requires a strong and successful interface with the Integrated Design Team and other project functions.

The work will require regular interface with site-based stakeholders and other disciplines therefore travel to the Sellafield site will be necessary from time to time.

Project Detail:

The project is to design and build a waste receipt facility (SWMRF) but also includes the pre-construction activities to divert services which are located or pass through the planned construction area to allow remediation of the land in preparation for the construction phase.

These services from an EC&I perspective are; HV Cabling, LV Cabling, BT Telephone and Fibres, Security Systems & Control Cabling

Responsibilities

You should be able to demonstrate most (but not necessarily all) of the following competencies:

  • Lead teams including a range of experience levels and communicate with both technical and non-technical disciplines.
  • Estimate, organise and report to schedule.
  • Define requirements at concept level, flowing down to detailed design.
  • Produce and maintain key deliverable documents/reports, risk assessments, method statements, calculations, schedules, etc. to programme and of appropriate quality.
  • Design fit for purpose cable route infrastructure/plant layouts that can be safely installed and populated
  • Produce a range of electrical deliverables such as single line diagrams, cable block diagrams, cable schedules, lighting, and small power circuits, earthing schemes etc.
  • Ensuring all relevant standards, instructions and specifications are applied.
  • Checking of other designers’ deliverables & support the CE&I design team in meetings and reviews
  • Can liaise and coordinate with other design disciplines and plant engineering as necessary in the production of preliminary and detail design deliverables.


Here's What You'll Need:

  • Experience in a similar role and should ideally be an Incorporated/Chartered Engineer or be working towards gaining professional status (Experience will be considered).
  • Design Experience in accordance with the IET 18th edition (BS7671) or lower.
  • Conversant with existing CAE tools (e.g. Auto CAD, Navisworks, AVEVA E3D, Trimble, Dialux etc).
  • Highly motivated & self driven
  • Able to influence and develop design strategies.
  • Collaborative Leader.
  • Advocate of safety and security practices/ processes


Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business, and we genuinely believe that we all succeed by supporting one another through our culture of caring. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centered on inclusion and diversity.

We partner with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility, please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.

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