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Hardware Design Engineer

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10 months ago
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We’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for us. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the opportunity:

Everything we do - whether Aerospace, Defence, Intelligence, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Nuclear, Automotive, or Telecommunications - is more than just a project. It is our challenge as human beings, too. That is why we bring a thoughtful and collaborative approach to every one of our partnerships.
It is our promise to challenge the status quo as we redefine how to solve the world's greatest challenges and transform big ideas into intelligent solutions for a more connected, sustainable world.

We are looking for a Hardware Design Engineer, to work out of one of our offices in Warrington or Westlakes Industrial Estate.

Key responsibilities:

  • To produce with input and guidance from the engineering design team, engineering design work packages (specifications, drawings, analysis, verification or assessment of engineering) that satisfy the legal and functional requirements along with the associated performance conditions to the agreed time, cost and quality.

  • The technical generation and review of engineering design drawings, mainly in relation to control system cubicles, enclosures, and interface panels.

  • Ascertaining constraints and design impacts from site visits, collaboration with the engineering teams and stakeholders, and the oversight of manufacturing and assembly of such designs to a high-quality level.

  • Provision of associated information such as Power Load and Heat Calculations, electrical instrumentation/interface drawings, I/O Schedules, Hardware Test Specifications, Inspection & Defect Reports, Purchase Order & Material Traceability, Lifetime Quality Records.

    Requirements

  • Significant Experience in the use of AutoCAD.

  • Experience of the design & delivery of Electrical Enclosures, Control System Panels, Motor Control Centres, etc.

  • Competent in the application of CDM Regulations and IET Wiring Regulations.

  • Experience of space management, panel layouts, cable routing, cable management & cable calculations, and load & heat calculations.

  • HNC or evidence of substantial experience with a high emphasis on EC&I engineering.

    Our Culture:

    Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business, and we genuinely believe that we all succeed by supporting one another through our culture of caring. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees

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