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Jobs for Humanity is collaborating with Kier to build an inclusive and just employment ecosystem. We support individuals coming from all walks of life. Company Name: Kier.
Role Overview
We're looking for an Electrical Engineer to join our MEICA Design team based in Salford, Birmingham, and Gerrards Cross. Kier Design is a top-25 engineering consultancy delivering a wide range of services across all sectors of the built environment.
Location & Working Hours
Locations: Salford, Birmingham, Gerrards Cross. Hours: 40 hours per week with some flexibility.
Responsibilities
* Provide specialist electrical, instrumentation, control and automation engineering support across potable water treatment works, wastewater treatment works, pumping stations and network assets.
* Specify, design, review, and assure electrical and ICA installations ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, water industry standards, and company engineering specifications.
* Coordinate design activities, support project delivery, and ensure safe, reliable, compliant and cost-effective solutions.
* Agree electrical and ICA design requirements from the client remit, ensuring full understanding and challenging where necessary.
* Support electrical and ICA design including outline design, feasibility studies, production, and evaluation of concepts focused on buildability, efficiency, and innovation.
* Deliver innovative alternative solutions and value engineering, enhancing Kier's competitive position.
* Produce and check technical specifications, functional design specifications (FDS), control philosophies, panel schedules, cable calculations and instrumentation schedules.
* Specify LV electrical equipment including MCCs, motor starters, drives (VSDs/soft starts), transformers, standby generation interfaces and power distribution panels.
* Conduct site visits, surveys and inspections, report and advise on SHE issues, and attend internal and external meetings on Kier's behalf.
* Work as an embedded part of tender and construction teams.
* Carry out cable sizing and cable installation design, including current-carriage capacity, voltage drop, fault level calculations, earthing and bonding requirements.
* Specify field instrumentation: flow, pressure, level, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, ammonia, pH, chlorine, temperature, sludge instruments and general process transmitters.
* Provide ICA input for telemetry, SCADA, PLC, RTU and network communication architectures, developing control system logic, setpoints, alarms and interlocks in collaboration with process engineers and operational teams.
Qualifications & Experience
* Chartered Engineer.
* Membership of an appropriate professional body (IET or IMechE).
* Extensive experience within the water, wastewater or process related industries, including hydraulic design and pumping systems.
* Detailed knowledge of SHE (Safety, Health & Environment) requirements and all relevant engineering standards.
* Ability to work under pressure and make critical decisions.
* Competent with cable design software (Amtech) and interpretation of P&IDs, SLDs and loop diagrams.
* Ability to pass the BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standard) requirements.
Rewards and Benefits
We offer a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.
Diversity and Inclusion
We are a Disability Confident employer and strive to create a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our Diversity and Inclusion action plan is available to all employees.
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