Work Location
Liverpool (with occasional travel to other offices and customer sites)
Reporting to
Technical Director
Responsibilities
- End to end support from concept to completion of switchgear related projects.
- Providing support for the timely and accurate generation of quotations for switchgear related work.
- Responsible for ensuring technical reviews are undertaken for assigned opportunities.
- Responsible for undertaking detailed electrical and mechanical design for all assigned projects, including schematics, mechanical assembly drawings, bills of materials, design files, test schedules, and associated documentation.
- Customer facing role, acting as the technical contact pre order and during project execution, working closely with the assigned project manager on technical matters.
- Actively participating in promoting a proactive and collaborative approach to Health & Safety at company and customer premises.
- Ensuring projects are executed in accordance with project deliverables, with due regard to cost and schedule control.
- Acting as a point of contact and liaison with third party providers (labour and equipment).
- The organisation reserves the right to add further tasks and duties as required.
Qualifications
- Experienced in Application Engineering. Main tasks will be predominantly related to facilitating the safe and profitable servicing, upgrades, and life extension of switchgear and ancillary equipment.
- Demonstrated high ethical standards, personal accountability, and consistently high performance.
Key Skills
- Experience in the fundamentals of electrical switchgear, its operation, and maintenance.
- Commitment to the provision of outstanding customer service.
- Strong understanding of current and future customer needs.
- Ability to work with other departments to deliver appropriate service levels.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills that promote confidence and provide clear information.
- Systematic approach to managing a complex and changing workload while following prescribed Quality Management System and Document Control protocols.
- Strong results orientation.
- Ability to work well under pressure, maintaining clarity of vision and setting appropriate priorities.
- Ability to apply a systematic approach to problem solving.
- Ideally a time served apprentice in an electrical engineering background.
- Educated to a minimum ONC level in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent).
- IT skills, including familiarity with Microsoft Office programmes.
- CAD experience.
- Experience of offshore and/or marine working.
Benefits
- 28 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays)
- Personal training and development plan
- Pension: 3% employer matched
Employment Type: Full time, Permanent
Working Type: Flexible (combined office attendance and work from home, dependent on circumstances)
Salary: £25,000 - £35,000, dependent on experience