Electrical Design Engineer- Senior/ Principal in York

Would you like to be part of Vital Energi’s Strategy of Growth? If so, we are looking for a Senior and Principal Electrical Design Engineers to join our growing Project Development team. This role could be based at our head office in Blackburn, our Glasgow office or London office; we are flexible on location. This is an excellent opportunity to run and build your own projects.

About the Role

Step into a role where your electrical engineering expertise genuinely shapes the built environment. Reporting to a Principal Engineer or Design Manager, you’ll take the lead on a diverse mix of industrial, commercial, and public‑sector projects, from early concept development right through to detailed design. You’ll influence pre‑construction strategies, review third‑party designs, and play a key part in producing PCSAs and investment‑grade proposals that drive major decisions.

You’ll join a collaborative team of electrical engineers, designing everything from electrical plant layouts and switch rooms to substations, cable sizing, lighting systems, containment, and wider building services. If you bring HV design experience, even better; it’s a strong advantage.

Key Duties:

• Electrical design work during pre-construction stages and during project delivery as required by the department’s workload.
• Responsible for the timely execution of electrical design deliverables on tender/bid projects.
• Day to day decision making on tenders and projects. Provides advice to internal stakeholders and clients.
• Takes a holistic view in the selection and application of engineering concepts and solutions.
• Represent Vital Energi at technical meetings with customers, professional teams and contractor teams.
• Ensure engineering calculations and drawings meet required robust industry and legal standards.
• Survey and report on existing electrical installations.
• Work within multi-disciplinary work winning teams to deliver technically compliant tenders.
• Lead on the coordination of engineering services.
• Engage equipment vendor supply chain to ensure electrical equipment selections are valid technically, specification compliant, value for money and available within programme.
• Have an awareness of cost implications within design.
• Assist with effectively dealing with design issues and minimising their impact.
• Ability to design systems in the form of calculations, equipment selection and process operation.
• Liaising with external designers, customers and Vital Energi’s in-house project teams.
• Compliance with CDM requirements and our in-house design processes.
• Ability to design systems in the form of schematics, calculations, equipment selection, detailed drawings and provide inputs for control operating strategies.
• Ensuring compliance with legislation and best practice with company procedures.

Skills/Experience

The successful candidates will ideally be qualified at degree level or similar (HNC/ HND), with a minimum of circa 3 to 5 years’ relevant experience working for a consultancy or a contractor. The individuals will have:

• Knowledge of MS office applications word, excel.
• Experience using Trimble ProDesign (Amtech).
• Good understanding of the latest edition of the IET Wiring Regulation.
• Sound knowledge of electrical building services design.
• Ability to prioritise own workload and work to deadlines.
• Sound knowledge & working application of key health and safety issues and legislation.
• Chairing/facilitation of meeting skills.

The Company

Vital Energi is a leading provider of renewable energy infrastructure and systems to the public and private sectors. We are supporting Hospitals, Universities, New Build developments, Towns and Cities as well as Industrial and Commercial clients to decarbonise their buildings. We have and continue to work on ground-breaking projects throughout the UK which are supporting the UK’s Net Zero targets, such as the recently announced £1 billion low-carbon infrastructure project for Westminster.

With plans to double our headcount over the coming years, supported by offices opening in new locations across the country and our strong investment pipeline, coupled with our expansion into new markets such as industrial power generation with our very own Energy-from-Waste facility, there is no better time to join the family here at Vital Energi.

The Package:

• Salary negotiable DOE.
• Car Allowance/ Company Car.
• Paid Professional engineering institutions (IET,CIBSE Etc..).
• Contributory Company Pension Scheme.
• Non-contributory death-in-service insurance.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• 25 Days Holiday plus 8 days bank holidays.
• Additional holidays awarded in line with length of service.
• Option to purchase/sell additional holidays.
• Onsite gym/wellbeing centre at our Blackburn Head Office.
• Discounted gym membership across the UK.
• Flexible working.

The company is opposed to all forms of discrimination and will select for employment, training and promotion on the basis of suitability for the job and/or merit. It is company policy that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of sex, race, colour, age, ethnic or national origins, political affiliations, religious beliefs, marital status, physical disability or is disadvantaged by unjustifiable conditions or requirements.

Applicants must have the unrestricted and ongoing right to work in the UK for the duration of employment, without the need for sponsorship. Due to the nature of this role, we are unable to support visa sponsorship or employ individuals with time‑limited permission or conditions attached to their right to work in the UK.

Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives: Vital Energi Utilities Ltd is not accepting unsolicited CVs from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. CVs submitted to any Vital Energi Utilities Ltd employee by a third party agency and/or search firm without a valid written & signed search agreement, will become the sole property of Vital Energi Utilities Ltd. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.