Intermediate Electrical Design Engineer

INTERMEDIATE ELECTRICAL DESIGN ENGINEER

Would you like to be part of Vital Energi’s Strategy of Growth?

If so, due to our ongoing growth, we are looking for an Intermediate Electrical Design Engineers to join our growing teams based in Blackburn.

The Company

Vital Energi is a leading provider of renewable energy infrastructure and systems to the public and private sectors. We are supporting Hospitals, Universities, New Build developments, Towns and Cities as well as Industrial and Commercial clients to decarbonise their buildings.

We have and continue to work on ground-breaking projects throughout the UK which are supporting the UK’s Net Zero targets, such as the recently announced £1 billion low-carbon infrastructure project for Westminster.

With plans to double our headcount over the coming years, supported by offices opening in new locations across the country and our strong investment pipeline, coupled with our expansion into new markets such as industrial power generation with our very own Energy-from-Waste facility, there is no better time to join the family here at Vital Energi.

The Role:

Reporting to the Senior Design Engineer, this role covers a wide range of electrical design work across industrial, commercial, and public sector projects. Responsibilities include concept and tender-stage design, reviewing third-party specs and drawings, and producing detailed designs for PCSAs and IGPs. The role also involves liaising with suppliers, conducting site surveys, attending client meetings, and contributing to tender documents and presentations.

Working as part of a multi-level engineering team, you'll support the senior engineer with tasks such as plant layouts, switch room/substation design, equipment and cable sizing, lighting, containment, and general building services design.

You'll also oversee junior engineers, assigning tasks, reviewing work, and ensuring project deliverables are met on time and to standard.

Key Duties:

• Electrical design work during pre-construction stages and during project delivery as required by the department’s workload
• Work within multi-disciplinary work winning teams to deliver technically compliant tenders
• Survey and report on existing electrical installations
• Engage equipment vendor supply chain to ensure electrical equipment selections are valid technically, specification compliant, value for money and available within programme constraints
• Have an awareness of cost implications within design.
• Assist with effectively dealing with design issues and minimising their impact.
• Ability to design systems in the form of calculations, equipment selection and process operation.
• Liaising with external designers, customers and Vital Energi’s in-house project teams.
• Compliance with CDM requirements and our in in-house design processes.
• Ability to design systems in the form of schematics, calculations, equipment selection, detailed drawings and provide inputs for control operating strategies.
• Ensuring compliance with legislation and best practice with company procedures.

The Person:

The successful candidates will ideally be qualified at degree level or similar (HNC/ HND), with a minimum of 2 to 4 years’ relevant experience working for a consultancy or a contractor. The individuals will have:

• Knowledge of MS office applications word, excel
• Experience using Trimble ProDesign (Amtech)
• Good understanding of the latest edition of the IET wiring regulation
• Sound knowledge of electrical building services design
• Ability to prioritize own workload and work to deadlines.

The Package:

The Package:

• Salary negotiable DOE
• Contributory Company Pension Scheme
• Non-contributory death-in-service insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 25 Days Holiday plus 8 days bank holidays.
• Additional holidays awarded in line with length of service
• Option to purchase/sell additional holidays
• Onsite gym/wellbeing centre at our Blackburn Head Office
• Discounted gym membership across the UK
• EV charging points where possible

Applications will be processed within 28 days of receipt. If you have not heard from us within this time period it will mean that your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful. Thanks you for your interest in Vital Energi.

The company is opposed to all forms of discrimination and will select for employment, training and promotion on the basis of suitability for the job and/ or merit. It is company policy that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of sex, race, colour, ethnic or national origins, political affiliations, religious beliefs, marital status, physical disability or is disadvantaged by unjustifiable conditions or requirements.

Only applicants who are legally entitled to work in the UK and are currently resident in the UK are invited to apply.

Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives:

Vital Energi Utilities Ltd is not accepting unsolicited CVs from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. CVs submitted to any Vital Energi Utilities Ltd employee by a third party agency and/or search firm without a valid written & signed search agreement, will become the sole property of Vital Energi Utilities Ltd. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.