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