Electrical Design Engineer

Electrical Design Engineer – Hybrid Working – Permanent – South Cheshire – £40-45k + overtime

Samuel Frank is recruiting for an experienced Electrical Design Engineer to join a very well established and growing client based in Cheshire on a permanent basis.

The successful Electrical Design Engineer will ideally have AutoCAD Electrical experience and be happy in an office based design capacity as well as site meetings/customer facing scenarios as well as getting involved in panel testing on the shopfloor.

Key aspects of the Electrical Design Engineer role include –

• Control Panel General Arrangements, Cable Block Diagrams, Cable / Termination Schedules, Bill of Materials
• Produce electrical schematic diagrams, using AutoCAD Electrical (other CAD package experience will also be considered)
• The company has a flexible approach with Electrical Design Engineers often working 2-3 days per week at home, sometimes 2-3 weeks at home, if that’s what works best!
• Develop hardware aspects of the control systems, to include connectivity of PLCs, I/O, Drives, HMIs, SCADA and Programmable Safety Systems.
• The company has very little/no staff turnover, they look after their Design Engineers and team members stay for many years
• They work in a variety of industries, so no two projects are the same.
• On site experience – role will be mostly office based but will involve supervising installation and commissioning works on customer sites
• Produce all aspects of design /documentation for electrical assembly and wiring
• Specification of drives and motor sizes
• If you wanted to go down the software route, there could be opportunities to learn and develop PLC software skills in the future whilst adding value as an Electrical Design Engineer.

The client has a full order book and has recently been successful in bidding for further work. The Electrical Design Engineer role includes payable overtime, flexible working hours and 26 days holiday per year + Bank Holidays. The client is very well regarded and can offer the right person a stable working environment, a professional approach and an opportunity for career progression. 

The offices are easily commutable from most of Cheshire and parts of Staffordshire including places such as Crewe, Northwich, Macclesfield, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stoke, Leek and Congleton. 

If you think you’re the Electrical Designer for them, please apply today for an immediate response.