Lead Electrical Engineer

Populus Select is supporting a long‑established organisation in Teesside with the appointment of a

Lead Electrical Engineer .

This senior position plays a key role in delivering robust electrical design, ensuring compliance within a high‑hazard environment, and providing technical leadership across engineering activities.

Role Summary

• Lead the electrical engineering design function across product development and project delivery.
• Provide technical oversight, mentor engineers, and drive continuous improvement across the electrical discipline.
• Ensure safe, compliant, and efficient engineering practices within a COMAH‑regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee and produce high‑quality electrical engineering designs using best‑practice methods, engineering first principles, and relevant standards.

Ensure all outputs are clearly presented, accurately documented, peer‑reviewed, and approved.

• Provide technical leadership, reviewing work from engineers, ensuring consistency of design approach, and maintaining engineering governance.
• Identify gaps in technical knowledge and lead initiatives to close them, updating internal standards, templates, and documentation.
• Build and maintain strong familiarity with existing products, systems, and electrical infrastructure across the site.
• Deliver engineering outputs to agreed quality standards and timelines in line with contractual and regulatory expectations.
• Identify, propose, and escalation technical or project‑related risks, ensuring proactive mitigation.
• Lead the preparation, review, and maintenance of product documentation including manuals, bills of materials, and technical specifications.
• Drive the conception, development, and refinement of new designs, ensuring technical robustness and compliance with hazardous‑area requirements.
• Specify equipment suitable for installation in hazardous areas, ensuring alignment with relevant standards and certification requirements.
• Oversee product testing, troubleshooting, commissioning, and validation activities.

Take ownership of the on‑time delivery of assigned designs, engineering outputs, and team deliverables.

• Monitor and assess the performance of existing electrical systems, supporting ageing‑asset management strategies.
• Support research and development activities, including exploration of new materials, technologies, and engineering approaches.
• Mentor and support site electricians, contributing to competency development and safe working practices.
• Responsibilities may evolve over time in line with business needs.

Qualifications & Experience

• Chartered Engineer status or actively working towards Chartership.
• Experience managing design, installation, commissioning, and maintenance of electrical systems on a

COMAH site .

• Significant electrical system design experience including load lists, SLDs, cable sizing, fault level studies, protection grading, motor‑starting calculations, and lightning protection calculations.
• Strong experience specifying equipment for hazardous areas .
• Site commissioning and troubleshooting experience.
• Experience acting as a designated competent person under the

Electricity at Work Regulations , in roles such as Authorised Person, Senior Authorised Person, Control Engineer, or Authorising Engineer.

• Experience managing ageing electrical assets and implementing improvement strategies.
• Experience training, mentoring, and developing site electricians.
• Comp Ex Ex01–04 and

Comp Ex Design (Ex12) Parts A & B .

• Working knowledge of relevant codes and standards including
• BS 7671 and
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