Senior Electrical Design Engineer

Job Title: Senior Electrical Design Engineer

Location: Birmingham

Salary:       £50-60k pa

What’s in it for you?

Competitive Salary 37 Hours per week
Fixed Days
Monday – Thursday 07:30-16:00
Friday – 07:30 -12:30
25 Days holiday per year plus all Bank Holidays.

Our Client has an exciting opportunity for a Team Lead / Senior Electrical Design Engineer to join their Birmingham based Engineering team. Reporting to the Technical Manager, this role involves the management of a team of electrical design engineers and to help drive change to make the
department more efficient and subsequently profitable.
The focus will be in identifying & implementing areas of improvement while ensuring the team are efficient in achieving deadlines. This will mean championing the development and implementation of standards and processes to help standardise the design process, whilst monitoring performance and striving for improvement in all areas. This role will also involve the hands-on’ design aspects a Senior Electrical design engineer, both overlooking the electrical design of products whilst implementing de-risking and design proving techniques to ensure the design is fit for purpose and compliant with all technical and legislative requirements.

KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY / EXPERIENCE
– Internal Engineering Management of Project Teams: Overlooking the everyday planning and
micro-managing of engineering team members on a day-by-day basis, ensuring the correct
quality of work is being produced and, in the timescales, agreed.
– External Engineer Management: Overlooking the planning and remote management of
Contractors (Sub-contractors /Design Houses), ensuring the correct quality of work is being
produced and, in the timescales agreed.
– Customer Interface: Priority Management of the customers’ requirements: Regular
communication (project calls, feedback on issues / progress), Hosting meetings – formal &
informal reviews (Design Reviews).
– Liaising with other Internal Departments: Priority Management, Problem solving / resolution
provision (i.e., manufacturing issues, etc.), Business goals (Milestone activities for
payments), Close working with Projects Team.
– Standards: Help in the definition and production of defined engineering standards, Active
implementation of these standards to all projects.
– The role also includes Design Engineering activities to support the various projects as and
when required, including advising on the technical compliance of the electrical design to the
customer’s specifications.
– Safety and Legislative compliance, production of Electrical schematic / circuit diagrams to
support the conceptual design and conversion to manufacture, production of the necessary
design documentation to substantiate the design and application to a project (performance
calculations, test plans, material, and component selection justifications).
This is an excellent opportunity to develop a career with Our Client

Important: Due to the security requirements of the business you must be a British Citizen and not hold
a dual nationality. This means that you cannot be a Citizen or hold a passport to another country. If you
have previously held or were entitled to hold a passport from another country, you would be required
to relinquish that Citizenship and provide evidence of this.

Workforce Manufacturing are responsible for thousands of temporary, temp-to-perm and permanent vacancies across the Midlands. We operate from several prime locations in the area and are likely to have an office right near you. Our team offer a unique service tailored to match your precise needs, and can assist you with the following job categories, Quality Engineers, Design Engineers, Project Managers and Production Mangers . We are always on the lookout for the best talent, so if you know anyone please do get in touch

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