Aberdeen, Glasgow, Hybrid Working

PD&MS Group

Employee - Full time

Electrical

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Lead Electrical Designer

About The Role

Do you enjoy a challenge? Do you want to make a difference? Are you ready to engineer change within the industry and wider community? 

At PD&MS, we’re determined to help drive the change that our world needs to see. To support current and new customers to be part of the energy transition, through future-friendly solutions.  

You can be part of our vision! 

Working Pattern: Permanent / Full Time 

As the Lead Electrical Designer, you will:  

Aids the project in creating schedules, time assignment and resource allocation
Responsible for ensuring designs meet project requirements
Input to project plans
Identify areas of concern during any project or study
Produce cost- effective engineering solutions that are fit for purpose, safe and add value
Ability to address operational and maintenance issues in the design and liaise with colleagues for the best solution
Undertake surveys, both onshore and offshore (not essential)

The role offers

Development opportunities: the opportunity to develop within your technical department, to be appreciated, to work with people who have the same goals and are driven to succeed.
Varied workload: you’ll have the chance to transfer your skills and develop in our industry and deliver on projects across the fully energy sector, from conventional to renewable energies.
Opportunities for transferable skills: if you’re experience isn’t traditional oil & gas, we still want to hear from you! If you’ve EPC experience in nuclear, rail, utilities, petro-chemical, renewables, marine and pharmaceuticals then please apply.
Salary: Competitive Salary depending on knowledge and experience plus a range of benefits that support your finances, wellbeing, and family.
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, Income Protection, Private Medical Cover, Private Dental Cover, 33 days holiday, Holiday Buy, Flexible Working and Employee Assist Programme and CrashPlan.
Location: Glasgow or Aberdeen – hybrid working 3 days in the office with flexibility to work from home for 2 days.

About You

You’ll have experience of: 

Producing, checking and approving deliverables that conform to all applicable industry engineering codes and standards as well as the client’s policies and procedures relative to the equipment being specified. Sound knowledge of relevant commonly used codes therefore required.
Leading a team of designers and coordinating work tasks to achieve required plan dates or be a senior / principal engineer looking for a step up in their career.
Managing design team budgets, produce scope estimates and recognising and controlling scope change.
Demonstrable Experience and Knowledge in Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality systems.
Electrical design experience (Oil & Gas preferred but not essential) in delivery of Electrical projects

Typical software packages used for Electrical engineering design;

- AUTOCAD (and RastorCAD)

- Microstation
- Bluebeam

Technical experience required

Experience producing, checking and approving the below design deliverables;
- Block Diagrams
- Single Line Diagrams
- Termination Diagrams
- Interconnection Diagrams
- Electrical Equipment Layout Diagrams
- Cable Schedules
- Cable Routing Drawings
- Bill of Materials
- Material Requisitions

Demonstrable Experience and Knowledge in Electrical equipment cabling particularly;
- Switchgear (HV, MV and LV)
- Power Transformers
- Motors (all types)
- Generators (all types)
- Variable Speed/Frequency Drives (VSD or VFD)
- Uninterruptable Power Supplies (UPS)
- Low Voltage Distribution Boards
- Lighting and Small Power Equipment (e.g. Lighting, Sockets, Trace
Heating)

Demonstrable Experience and Knowledge in Electrical systems modifications below;
- Main and Emergency Generation
- Electrical Distribution Network
- Lighting and Small Power Circuits
- Trace Heating Circuits
- UPS (Systems and Circuits)
- UCPs

Personal attributes

Our GENES, our core values, define who we are, what we stand for and how we deliver.

Go the extra mile
Empower our people
Never get complacent
Engage our partners
Step up and deliver

If this sounds like you, then you could be a perfect fit.

Qualifications

HNC in relevant engineering discipline

About Us

PD&MS has been engineering solutions in the energy industry and beyond since 2002, our ability to combine innovative ideas with technical expertise sets us apart. A flexible, full-service provider committed to supporting the energy transition, we deliver high-quality project work across the entire lifecycle of assets within the oil and gas, renewables and nuclear sectors. But whoever we work with, it’s the energy, professionalism and purpose of our people that really makes the difference.

Be who you’re meant to be, with PD&MS

We firmly believe in a work culture in which: individual differences are a source of collective strength and pride; everybody can perform to the best of their abilities and on a level playing field; and all colleagues feel they’re part of our team and their voices will be heard. We’re already heartened by the diversity within our organisation, but we recognise that there’s always more we can do to improve further. We welcome applications from all persons regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status.

We’re energised by the prospect of operating successfully today, tomorrow and far into the future. But we’re also driven to ensure that our business activities are conducted in socially responsible, morally acceptable and sustainable ways.

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