Senior Electrical Design Engineer

Innovate Glasgow, Scotland 5 days ago

Type Permanent
Pay Not listed
Work Onsite
Level Senior

Senior Electrical Design Engineer focuses on this is an excellent opportunity for an experienced senior electrical project engineer to join a growing team working across both new development and ongoing support activities.

What the role involves

  • This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior Electrical Project Engineer to join a growing team working across both new development and ongoing support activities.
  • Combines design, technical support, and project delivery, with regular collaboration across production, supply chain, project management, and wider engineering teams.
  • Provide hands-on electrical engineering support across a range of projects, including new product development, customer-driven modifications, and the continued improvement of exist.
  • Deliver electrical and electronic design solutions for new and existing systems.
  • Support technical investigations and engineering change activity, and produce calculations, technical documentation, bills of materials, and component specifications.
  • Review test procedures, reports, assembly documentation, and manufacturing drawings, ensuring all designs meet relevant standards, regulations, and internal processes.

Skills and requirements

  • Due to the nature of the work, you must be eligible for UK Security Clearance.
  • You should have proven experience in electrical and electronic system design, with a strong background in electrical engineering calculations and practical project delivery.
  • Experience with PLC programming and IEC (phone number removed) languages would be beneficial, along with competence using engineering design and CAD tools.
  • Experience in regulated environments such as marine, defence, industrial, or similar sectors would be advantageous, as would familiarity with PLM systems.

Candidate fit

  • technical judgement, safe working habits, careful diagnostics, and practical problem-solving

Additional role context

  • We are supporting a specialist engineering business that designs and delivers complex electrical systems for highly regulated industrial environments.
  • Play a key role in delivering electrical and electronic engineering solutions from concept through to commissioning.
  • This position requires a practical engineer who is comfortable balancing technical detail with wider project objectives.
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