Overview

Senior Electrical Design Engineer – Project Development at Vital Energi Utilities Limited

Location: Blackburn (head office), Glasgow, or London (flexible on location). Role offers opportunity to run and build your own projects. This is part of Vital Energi’s Strategy of Growth.

About The Role

Reporting to the Principal Engineer, you’ll carry out a wide range of electrical design tasks across industrial, commercial, and public sector projects. This includes concept and detailed design during pre-construction and tender stages, reviewing third-party drawings/specs, and contributing to PCSAs and investment-grade proposals.

You’ll work with vendors, conduct site surveys, attend client meetings, and support tender submissions and presentations. You’ll design electrical plant layouts, switch rooms, substations, cable sizing, equipment sizing, lighting and containment systems, and general building services. HV design experience is a plus.

You’ll manage and support junior engineers, assigning tasks, reviewing work, and ensuring project deliverables are met on time and within programme.

Key Duties

• Electrical design work during pre-construction stages and during project delivery as required by workload.
• Responsible for the timely execution of electrical design deliverables on tender/bid projects.
• Day-to-day decision making on tenders and projects; provide advice to internal stakeholders and clients.
• Take a holistic view in the selection and application of engineering concepts and solutions.
• Represent Vital Energi at technical meetings with customers, professional teams and contractor teams.
• Ensure engineering calculations and drawings meet robust industry and legal standards.
• Survey and report on existing electrical installations.
• Work within multi-disciplinary teams to deliver technically compliant tenders.
• Engage equipment vendor supply chain to ensure valid technical selections, specification compliance, value for money, and programme availability.
• Awareness of cost implications within design; assist with resolving design issues to minimise impact.
• Ability to design systems through calculations, equipment selection, and process operation.
• Liaise with external designers, customers and Vital Energi’s in-house project teams.
• Compliance with CDM requirements and in-house design processes.
• Ability to design systems in the form of schematics, calculations, equipment selection, detailed drawings and inputs for control operating strategies.
• Ensure compliance with legislation and company procedures.

Skills / Experience

The Person: Degree level or similar (HNC/HND) with approximately 3–5 years’ relevant experience in a consultancy or contractor environment. Knowledge of MS Office applications (Word, Excel). Experience with Trimble ProDesign (Amtech). Good understanding of the latest edition of the IET Wiring Regulations. Sound knowledge of electrical building services design. Ability to prioritise own workload and meet deadlines. Strong awareness of health and safety issues and legislation. Meeting facilitation skills.

The Package

• Salary negotiable DOE
• Car Allowance
• Paid professional engineering institutions (IET, CIBSE, etc.)
• Contributory Company Pension Scheme
• Non-contributory death-in-service insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 25 Days Holiday plus 8 bank holidays; additional holidays with service
• Option to purchase/sell additional holidays
• Onsite gym/wellbeing centre at Blackburn Head Office
• Discounted gym membership across the UK
• EV charging points where possible
• Cycle to work scheme

The company is an equal opportunity employer. It is policy to recruit on merit and to provide equal opportunities regardless of sex, race, colour, age, ethnic or national origins, political beliefs, religious beliefs, marital status, or disability. Applicants must be legally entitled to work in the UK.