Senior Engineer HV West Midlands
Job description
About the Role
Baker Hicks have grown rapidly in the Transmission & Distribution sector over the last five years and have been successful in winning a number of major projects within the UK. As the demand to deliver exceptional engineering design from our clients continues to grow, an opportunity has arisen for a HV Cable Design Engineer. The Electrical Engineer – HV Cables role will be reporting to the Principal Engineer – Power and will be responsible ensuring the quality and consistency of the team’s output in the production and control of drawings and technical documents. You will also work with the Sector Director - Power to assist during the bid process in order to secure further work.
Responsibilities & Accountabilities
- Preparation and checking of feasibility studies, outline and detailed design technical reports and other written documents.
- Design and checking of detail construction design drawings.
- Production of design concepts, drawings, specifications and other technical documents.
- The adherence to and control of documents and drawings in accordance with Baker Hicks management procedures.
- Design input/output within the designated risk management process.
- Development of team specific standards to ensure the consistency of the output.
- Development of the team CAD technicians.
- Accept ownership of work to be done (i.e. being required to undertake specific actions within an agreed job boundary, the execution of a delegated task, activity or process).
- Experience in software packages such as MathCAD, CYMCAP, COMSOL, ETAP, DigSilent, ERACS, etc
- Must be competent at creating and laying out quality drawings that contractors, suppliers and fabricators can understand.
Delivery of work to programme, budget and specification.
Skills & Experience
Essential
- Proficient with associated technical specifications from clients such as National Grid, SSE, Scottish Power, UKPN, WPD, ENWL, etc
- Good computer and report writing skills
- Experience managing the production of project deliverables through a robust checking process
- Must develop drawing office standards
- Support the actual delivery of the outputs
Desirable
- Experience in managing quality and consistency elements of projects.
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work well within a team
- Good attitude to obtaining new skills and capable at transferring existing skills to overcome new challenges.
- Experience as a mentor and training CAD technicians
About BakerHicks
Ireland’s largest hospital. Europe’s most complex station development. World-class biomedical research laboratories. At BakerHicks, we provide an incredible range of design and engineering consultancy services to clients who demand exceptional results.
Specialising in complex infrastructure, process and built environments across the full project life cycle, our disciplines range from initial architecture to civil and structural, building services, specialist high voltage and process engineering services, programme management and CDM consultancy, using the latest innovations in Building Information Modelling (BIM) for the most efficient and cost-effective design.
Benefits
Working at BakerHicks means a chance to make your mark on some of the most exciting design and engineering projects in their sectors. Whatever your discipline, you’ll be alongside some of the most talented people in the industry.
Our network of offices are appealing, friendly and comfortable spaces, easily accessible by car or public transport. And our salary and benefits packages are some of the best in the industry. What you get will depend on what you do, with individual performance-related rewards also on offer in addition to:
- Company car or cash allowance
- Up to 6% matched contributory pension plan
- Life assurance scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus ability to buy additional leave
- Discount scheme (including gym membership, mobile phones etc)
- Family friendly policies
- Employee assistance
- Professional development
