Senior Design Engineer - Cabling

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Freedom's Professional Services are looking for a Senior Design Engineer with a cabling system and or cable routing specialism to join our team based out of our offices in either London or Stowmarket. This role will work on the design, drawing and calculations of our projects, working with the wider Design team, with site visits to carry out surveys and data collection, as required. Hybrid working arrangement between office(s), home and site.

Some of the key deliverables in this role will include:

• Manage and lead with delivering technically demanding projects.
• Lead all types of cabling projects (including undertaking calculations and producing drawings) from concept design to detailed design unaided, ensuring that the project is cost effective and delivered on time with the deadlines in the proposal.
• Have good commercial awareness with the ability to work closely with our clients to build a strong relationship.
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of cable system design including very good knowledge of software packages including CYMCAP.
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of cable routing design including very good knowledge of software packages including AutoCAD.
• Understand and mitigate complex engineering problems such as SEDs.
• Mentor and provide help/guidance to Design, Assistant and Graduate Engineers.
• Attend and chair design team meetings with the team/client via teams or in person.
• Provide engineering solutions to site-based problems through TQ/RFI process.
• Have the ability to review/authorise cable design reports and drawings to a high standard, providing constructive technical feedback to all engineering levels.
• Ability to confidently conduct, supervise and demonstrate site visits to carry out cable route assessments, design commissioning, and investigations after failures.

What we’re looking for:

• Degree qualified is desirable, but fundamentals from HNC/HNC is essential.
• Someone who is autonomous and needs little direction to get the job done.

Benefits:

We're always evolving our benefits to ensure we're attracting and retaining great people. Some of what you can expect includes:

• Pension with a leading provider and up to 8% employer contribution
• 25 days holiday
• Company vehicle (or car allowance)
• Personal Wellbeing and Volunteer Days
• Private Medical Insurance
• Sick Pay
• Free 24/7 365 Employee Assistance Program to support mental health and well-being (including counselling sessions and legal advice)
• Flexible benefits to suit from Dental Insurance, Gym Memberships, Give As You Earn, Travel Insurance, Tax Free Bikes.
• Personal development programme
• Hybrid working arrangement between office(s), home and site.

Next Steps:

As a business, we’re on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation. We’ll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice.

If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.

About Us:

Freedom are part of the NG Bailey Group, one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training. Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground-breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies. Progression is something we value and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be.