Senior EC&I Design Engineer

Bilfinger
St Helens
1 month ago
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Senior EC&I Design Engineer

Location: St Helens

Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & beverage markets. We enhance the efficiency of assets, ensuring a high level of availability and reducing maintenance costs.

We have extensive experience in offshore and onshore facilities; specialising in asset management services throughout all life cycle phases from consulting, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning.

This commitment is delivered by an experienced and highly competent workforce of over 4,500 employees operating from 14 offices in strategic industrial hubs, upholding the highest standards of safety, compliance and quality.

As a Senior EC&I Engineer, you will have a role where you will be key in providing professional technical assistance and advice to support the Bilfinger UK Manufacturing Engineering Team working on some of the most stimulating and ground breaking EPC projects in the UK.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week based at our control panel manufacturing facility in Haydock with the option for hybrid working.

Main Responsibilities:

  • As a senior member of the in house team of design and project engineers, you will be responsible for the Electrical Control and Instrumentation (EC&I) designs of electrical control panels and their related systems.
  • You will be capable of acting as a technical authority for the EC&I discipline in Bilfinger, supporting the Engineering Manager in achieving business targets.
  • Understanding customer requirements and being able to translate these into engineering solutions
  • You will be responsible to manage and complete the EC&I engineering and design of projects as well as support construction throughout the manufacturing stage, including change control.
  • Contribute to the planning and execution of tasks in order to deliver specific agreed objectives on time, demonstrating control of cost and quality
  • You shall be client facing and manage the expectations of the client in relation to the project scope.
  • You shall be able to effectively carry out, check and approve Engineering and Design estimates, control and report all costs on allocated projects in terms of progress, scope change and man hours.


Ideal Candidate:

  • Experience in highly regulated environments, such as the nuclear, defence, oil & gas or power generation is highly desirable.
  • Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent qualifications/experience.
  • Minimum of 10 years professional engineering design/ technical specialist experience.
  • A high level of theoretical and practical Electrical Engineering knowledge with experience in the developing, testing and evaluating of engineering designs.


Advantageous Experience/Knowledge:

  • Low Voltage switchgear Design
  • Control/automation System Design
  • Motor Control Centre Design
  • Variable Drive System Design
  • Experience with AutoCad packages including , Eplan , Auto CAD Electrical
  • Familiarity with AMTECH.



Security Clearance:

  • Possession of security clearance is ideal.
  • Due to the nature of the work, applicants must be able to meet UK security clearance criteria.



If you wish to speak to a member of the recruitment team, please contact .

Engineering & Consultancy | Bilfinger UK Limited | Permanent | White-collar workers | Skilled | Engineering

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