Principal Electrical Engineer in Dumbarton

Our client Aggreko are looking for an Electrical Engineer at a Senior / Principal level for an initial 12 month contract opportunity. This is based in Dumbarton but offering hybrid working (flexible around this).

Primary Purpose

Responsible for electrical design engineering aspects of the continuing development and technical support of the Aggreko range of products as subject matter expert.

Key Responsibilities

• Represents the electrical engineering subject matter expert for Aggreko Central Engineering and together with counterparts in the operating regions and central functions forms the group authority in this area.
• Ensures that all electrical design and development work is in keeping with sound engineering practice and compliant with relevant national and international standards and legislation.
• Develops and owns processes to maintain the standardisation of electrical engineering design throughout the range of products.
• Engages in providing electrical engineering support to both manufacturing and the operating companies.
• Provide SME support to major technical quality investigations, source and manage 3rd party specialist resource as required.
• Ensures that the Electrical aspects of the products are selected, engineered and packaged to meet a variety of applications and environments, taking into account efficiency of operation, reliability, maintainability, flexibility and lifetime costs of ownership.
• Develops the Electrical engineering aspects of the existing product range to achieve operating and manufacturing improvements and to meet new needs in the market place. This includes adapting the products to meet entirely different applications and the needs of new business sectors.
• Component and system cost reduction and the support of low cost economy sourcing are key aspects of this role.
• Works closely with internal and external customers, Product Managers, Product Engineering Managers, the Head of Engineering to arrive at engineering specifications that optimise the commercial potential of new and existing products.
• Ensures that the available technologies and components are appropriately exploited in product design.
• Supports the manufacturing facility by anticipating engineering issues that are likely to arise and by quickly resolving these issues when they appear.
• Designs test procedures, in conjunction with the Development Test Manager, to check that the product fully meets specification. Identifies the important operating parameters and the engineering factors that are likely to limit the performance of the product. Analyses and interprets the test results.
• Carries out technical liaison with key suppliers regarding the selection of components, their support in production and subsequently throughout the lifetime of the product.
• Develops and maintains an appropriate level of documentation of the electrical aspects of all products to ensure that they can be supported throughout their lifetime.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• A good Degree in Electrical Engineering with relevant experience and training in product development and design, or equivalent.
• Chartered Engineer preferred.

Professional skills/experience

• Fully qualified, seasoned professional engineer who has sufficient understanding of engineering fundamentals to be able to resolve a variety of issues/problems and to ensure that the electrical aspects make the best commercial use of available technologies and components.
• Experience of a design/development role in a commercially demanding environment with a good grasp of design processes.
• Ability to work to tight timescales, under pressure, whilst maintaining the correct level of quality. Ability to balance the needs of reliability, maintainability, and efficient performance within the commercial and packaging constraints.
• Ability to quickly recognise critical issues, whether technical or in terms of workload, at an early stage.

Personal skills/experience

• Ability to work effectively within a team. Teams may be within Technical Department, Aggreko Manufacturing or Aggreko worldwide.
• Flexibility to meet a fluctuating workload and a wide variety of, often unpredictable, problems. Ability to motivate the mechanical engineering team to respond to new challenges and continual change.
• Ability to quickly build up an understanding of the commercial realities of Aggreko's business.
• Ability to respond constructively to pressure and continual change.
• Highly committed and goal driven.
• Ambitious and with the potential to move to a more senior level within the Aggreko organisation.
• Excellent communications and good organisational skills.