Electrical Design Engineer

The Rewards and the benefits:

• Competitive salary.
• Career progression opportunities.
• Stable growing organisation.
• Generous benefits package.
• Permanent employment.
• Immediate start available

MTrec's new career opportunity:

MTrec Technical are proudly representing our prestigious Engineering client, based in Tyne and Wear, with their plans for growth and expansion, by recruiting a permanent Electrical Design Engineer to join their team. You will be joining a fast-paced, dynamic company, with an excellent team-based culture and huge opportunities to progress your career. Our client is a major international player in their specialist industry sector and supplies its quality products globally. You will be joining a very secure and expanding business, where you will enjoy a varied working environment, a great team culture and a promising new career move.

The Job you'll do:

• Lead electrical aspects of design collaborating with mechanical engineers and shopfloor technicians to ensure project milestones are delivered on time
• Understanding and capturing customer requirements, relevant industry regulations and standards ensuring design compliance with safety and quality standards
• Oversee / lead project delivery from initial concept to detail stage technical design reports, including calculations, schematics, functional design specifications (FDS), and schedules
• Participate in and lead, when required, design team meetings, technical workshops and contribute to the preparation of key project documentation
• Provide input during estimating, tendering and value engineer as and when required
• Provide technical support internally and externally when required (e.g. FAT / SAT/ In service)
• Analysing existing processes and schedule meetings to discuss improvement initiatives
• Provide technical leadership and supervision to less experienced engineers

About You:

• Minimum BEng in electrical engineering or relevant experience in this field
• Experience in leading engineering teams with relevant experience in a similar role.
• Strong understanding of Electrical control systems Engineering & Standards is essential
• Must have a strong understanding of the electrical software engineering principles
• Effective communication and leadership abilities
• Good interpersonal skills as the role will involve interaction with multidiscipline teams.
• Have good foresight and strong analytical thinking skills that allows you to troubleshoot and avoid problems.
• Meticulous and logical thinker who enjoys working with different systems in combination with computers.
• Ability to draw and interpret Flow diagrams (Visio etc)
• Be computer literate and able to use a wide range of software packages