Electrical Project Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom

10/1/2024

Job Title

Electrical Project Engineer

Job Description

Reports to Project Manager (Engineering)

Location London – Heathrow

Introduction to role

The UK engineering team works as an integrated part of the Worldwide Vanderlande Engineering team consisting of over 1000 engineers from all automated handling disciplines. An Engineer joining the UK team has the opportunities and potential to join a wide and diverse range of projects, we are looking for an Engineer with the passion and willingness to engineer and develop designs for projects, the ability to follow challenging standards and overall to add value to our customers at home and abroad.

Role Responsibilities

As an Electrical Project Engineer you will support our automation projects by creating the electrical circuits and layouts for our intralogistics equipment and systems.

The area of work is of a specialist/technical nature and the person fulfilling the role should be friendly and have the ability to communicate facts within the required area of knowledge and expertise. Standard operating procedures are important aspects of this role and as such, it will require an individual who is persistent, organised, structured, self-controlled and kind. The person fulfilling this role should be consistent in approach, analytical, sensitive, precise, logical, and systematic

Your responsibilities and activities will be

• Read the user requirements, analyse the feasibility, and considers technical standards
• Agrees in consultation with the Project Leader the necessary engineering activities for the deliverables and planning details
• Reports progress and deviations of worked hours to the Project Leader
• Participates in decision making with all the relevant disciplines regarding the electrical components and interfaces to be used
• Designs, specifies and calculates the complete electrical controls installation (including the supply and power distribution) consisting of cabinets, field wiring, cable trunking and mechanical supports for the electrical components
• Creates power calculations (required max. power), cable calculations for the cable layout drawings and selectivity determination
• Designs controls drawings, layouts and produces all information necessary for manufacturers, installation managers, special design engineers, wiring contractors and purchasing department
• Designs according to known procedures, rules, and follows UK legislation like the supply of machinery regulations where applicable
• Produces engineering instructions
• Instructs subcontractors on the working principles of the hardware (drawings and documentation)
• Supports subcontractors with problem analyses and engineering changes/reviews
  
  

Role Qualification And Skills

• Exposure in developing electrical design for industrial installations and low voltage installations
• Ideally, previous experience in working with engineering tools like Autocad and Eplan.
• Electro-technology/ Energy technology qualification preferable.
• Knowledge of industrial networks like ProfiNet, ASi bus and Profibus
• Preferable experience in used technologies and equipment for Material Handling Systems.
  
  

What We Offer

• 28 days of annual leave (excluding public holidays)
• Bupa Medical Cover
• YuLife – Wellbeing membership with fast access to GP appointments, promotion of health and wellbeing along with daily quests to gain Yucoins that can be swapped for shopping vouchers
• A challenging work environment with lots of opportunities of career progression.
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension with Aviva
• Access to Achievers an award-winning recognition platform that inspires to recognise your coworkers Where points are awarded that can be exchanged for a range of goods and discounts.
  
  

Diversity & Inclusion

Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age marital status or disability status. If you feel there is a barrier that potentially prevents you from applying, we are always happy to discuss or explore, any reasonable adjustments can be made to support your application.