Principle Electrical Designer

Rubicon Consulting is currently recruiting Principle Electrical Designer on a 6-month ongoing contract based in Renfrew.

This position falls INSIDE IR35

We are looking for an experienced Principal Electrical Designer to join our client who is a Market Leader in Hydrogen & Renewables Solutions.

The successful candidate will undertake a defined range of detail design activities in line with all relevant projects covering a variety of sectors. They will be responsible for processes and quality requirements, supplying advice and support to operations and other functions and ensuring defined objectives are achieved whilst continually maintaining quality and service requirements.

Responsibilities of the Principle Electrical Designer:

Main Duties:

• Operate within the functionality of the appropriate tools and techniques.
• Produce and develop designs in line with specifications and all quality and technical standards, and carry out detail design appraisals in assigned areas to ensure all standards are maintained.
• Carry out investigations into operational problems or developments and develop and prepare solutions, individually or as a member of a team.
• Support the development of best practice to increase the capability, performance of tools and processes
• To identify personal training requirements, skills gaps and development requirements in own discipline.
• Keep up to date in relevant technical areas, develop skills and capabilities to be able to provide more effective services (seeking and sharing good practice and knowledge to continuously improve practices), and supply technical support and expertise to others as required.
• Provide help and direction to less experienced team members to support both their effective working and their development.
• Perform self-verification of own tasks and undertake cross checking of other draughtspersons work as requested to ensure completeness and quality of information.
• Answer Technical queries about his/her own work and that of subordinates within their level of knowledge and competency.
• Act as a member of a technical team created to accomplish tasks of a specialist nature (e.g. Liaison Draughting team, best practice team).
• Appreciates and can articulate the value of the engineering lifecycle and the relationship to the Lifecycle Management Process. Appreciates that there are technical reviews to ensure product viability.
• Appreciates and can articulate the need to ensure that products are acceptably safe and that product and system safety assessments form part of the design process.
• Has had some exposure to regulatory and statutory requirements of the product and understands potential liabilities.
• Has an appreciation of the requirement that the environmental impact of our activities is sustainable in the long term.
• Appreciates the need for a supportability engineering process to sustain the long term viability of the business. Understands that supportability goes
  beyond basic design, maintenance and operability requirements.

Knowledge:

• Able to perform analysis using recognised draughting and analytical tools
  and to make sound judgements.
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting responses in assigned areas to operational units or other activities.
• Appreciates and can articulate the value of the engineering lifecycle and the relationship to the Lifecycle Management Process. Appreciates that there are technical reviews to ensure product viability.
• Appreciates and can articulate the need to ensure that products are acceptably safe and that product and system safety assessments form part of the design process.
• Has had some exposure to regulatory and statutory requirements of the product and understands potential liabilities.
• Has an appreciation of the requirement that the environmental impact of our activities is sustainable in the long term.
• Appreciates the need for a supportability engineering process to sustain the long term viability of the business. Understands that supportability goes beyond basic design, maintenance and operability requirements.

Areas of Responsibility:

• CAD Models delivering design intent
• Data, diagrams and drawings supporting Design and assessment tasks,
  specific to own discipline.
• Design and Change Studies
• Technical Reports and Specifications