We're looking for a Electrical Engineer
to join
our Design
team based in Salford / Birmingham /
Gerrards Cross .
Kier Design are a top-25 engineering consultancy, delivering a wide range of services across all sectors of the built environment, providing construction-focused, innovative and sustainable solutions. We have preferential access to Kier's £11bn+ project pipeline, including mega projects like High Speed 2 and Hinkley Point C, frameworks with national and local government and other public bodies, and a range of other interesting projects in every sector of the built environment.
We believe in building teams around our people, rather than squeezing people into our teams, we want to help you carve out a role in which you'll grow and thrive for many years to come. Offering market-leading development opportunities, supporting our graduates through the early stages of their careers, enabling our people to become professionally qualified, providing management training and qualifications, and supporting ongoing technical development throughout our people's careers. Actively promoting, so you can keep pushing and stretching yourself. Within
this role, you
can
enjoy
competitive
annual holiday
entitlement with opportunities
to buy leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a
share
in the success you help to create by investing in
Kier
through
our
Sharesave and
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Incentive Plans and even more
Location :
Salford / Birmingham / Gerrards Cross
Hours : 40 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us
What will you be responsible for?
As
Electrical Engineer, you'll be working within the Mechanical Electrical and Technology team, providing specialist electrical, instrumentation,
control and automation engineering support across potable water treatment works, wastewater treatment works, pumping stations and network assets. The role involves specifying, designing, reviewing and assuring electrical and ICA installations ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, water industry standards, and company engineering specifications. Coordinating design activities, support project delivery, and ensure safe, reliable, compliant and cost-effective solutions
Your day to day will include:
Agreeing electrical and ICA design requirements from the client remit, ensuring it is fully understood, questioning and challenging where necessary, supporting onelectrical and ICA design including outline design, feasibility studies, production and evaluation of concepts; focussed on buildability, efficiency and innovation; enabling cost estimates to be developed
Delivering innovative alternative solutions and value engineering, enhancing Kier's competitive position, producing and checking technical specifications, functional design specifications (FDS), control philosophies, panel schedules, cable calculations and instrumentation schedules
Specifying LV electrical equipment including MCCs, motor starters, drives (VSDs/soft starts), transformers, standby generation interfaces and power distribution panels, site visits, surveys and inspections, reporting and advising on SHE issues; attending internal and external meetings on Kier's behalf; periodically working as an embedded part of tender and construction teams
Carrying out cable sizing and cable installation design, including current-carrying capacity, volt drop, fault level calculations, earthing and bonding requirements, specifying field instrumentation: flow, pressure, level, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, ammonia, pH, chlorine, temperature, sludge instruments and general process transmitters
Providing 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
What are we looking for?
This role of
Electrical Engineer
is great for you if:
Chartered Engineer; Membership of appropriate Professional Body (IET or IMechE), bring extensive experience within the water, wastewater or process related industries, including hydraulic design and pumping systems
Experience and detailed knowledge of SHE (Safety, Health & Environment) requirements, detailed knowledge of all relevant Engineering Standards
Have the ability to work under pressure, making 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're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.
You can see more information of benefits here
.
Diversity and inclusion Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies.
You can see our D&I action plan here
.
We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier
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