Electrical Designer - Rail

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

12/20/2024

About the role

Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. They are an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. Join our Balfour Beatty Rail Traction team as an Electrical Design Engineer in Glasgow and you’ll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you.

This is an excellent opportunity for you to join our talented team and work on the recently awarded Piccadilly Line HV Power Framework.

What you'll be doing

• Create and implement design solutions for the Traction Business.
• Ensure integration, technical assurance, compliance, health, safety, and sustainability of design and engineering to enable a compliant, defect-free handover for operational service, delivered on time and within budget.
• Coordinate with the Principal Designer and Principal Contractor, ensuring regular information flow to meet CDM requirements.
• Develop specifications, datasheets, calculations, schedules, and drawings.
• Review and check vendor documents and information for electrical compliance with project specifications.
• Support the Design Manager and contribute to design and construction reviews and sign-offs.
• Ensure design risks are considered and prepare design risk assessments, communicating residual design risks to relevant parties.
• Develop and implement Power Systems Traction design proposals, ensuring they meet client requirements, including budget constraints, and present proposals for client approval.
• Oversee the design and delivery of design and assurance on one or more projects, ensuring compliance with the latest standards, project technical work scope, and relevant company processes.
• Develop the design deliverables program.
• Ensure program commitments are met, and take action to establish priorities and address problems regarding timescales when required.
• Provide effective reporting on design status and key design issues.

Who we're looking for

• A degree (or equivalent) in an Electrical discipline is required and professional membership of IET is desirable.
• Detailed knowledge of codes of practice, in particular designer duties and responsibilities under CDM and other regulatory requirements.
• Understanding of electrical engineering principles.
• Valid Driving Licence 
• Previous experience in AC and DC power design on mainline and third rail systems.
• Understanding of customer design management processes.
• Ability to clearly and concisely communicate both verbally and in writing.

Why work for us

Our people are our biggest asset and we focus on recruiting, training and developing the people who can apply innovation to deliver the infrastructure of the future. We nurture these talents, offer a great benefits package in addition to a competitive base salary and continually invest in developing the skills of our people at every level. Some of our key benefits are:

• An attractive / negotiated salary
• Medical health cover
• 37.5 core base hours per week
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Pension savings schemes
• A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, exclusive offers etc)
• Refer a friend bonus scheme
• Discretionary annual salary reviews.

About us

Balfour Beatty Rail Traction is an electrical systems business with over 100 years of engineering expertise.

We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Rail, Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/