Electrical Engineer in UK

Electrical Design Engineer

Due to continued growth, an opportunity for an additional Electrical Engineer/Design Engineer is now available.

The organisation offers explosion protection solutions for the materials handling and oil & gas industries, providing fully engineered conversions, EX-proof products and EX components.

This respected brand has been providing over 40 years of industry solutions, to help achieve keeping people safe in hazardous areas.

Working as an Electrical Design Engineer, using your experience within you will be part of a highly skilled engineering team involved in the conversion of industrial materials handling equipment, for safe operation in hazardous areas, ensuring compliance to ATEX, Ex and IEC Ex.

You will be hands on, designing solutions for alternative components such as Ex certified primary traction batteries, to be integrated into vehicles, taking into account extreme space constraint limitations, ensuring integration into original machine electrical systems, specifying fuses, selecting cables, understanding signal and power cables and their applications.

You will also be responsible for project specification documents, drawings in AutoCAD, defining electrical enclosure layouts and population, specifying product test requirements and producing product risk assessments and paperwork to support certification.

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of electrical cabling for automotive, industrial or marine
• Hands on experience of electrical wiring
• Design of electrical systems using AutoCAD, defining enclosure layouts
• Specify test requirements
• Able to select components for integration
• Understanding of electrical/mechanical system integration
• Creation of project documents
• BOM generation
• Project management skills
• Customer support

Ideally, you’ll have a broad knowledge of predominantly electrical and some electronic control systems, e.g., AC inverters, industrial controllers, PLC’s, experience of working in a highly regulated environment and a background in fault finding complex electrical systems.

Education to HND or Degree level in a relevant subject is required.

Interested - Please apply immediately - Contact Graeme @ Vibe Recruit on 07971 309403