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Job Overview
- As a Design Engineer, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality electrical and solar PV system designs, supporting senior engineers, and ensuring compliance with statutory, client, and manufacturer requirements. This position provides a clear pathway for professional growth and progression within the design team.
Main Duties
- Design Delivery & Compliance
- Complete design tasks as instructed by senior engineers within required business timeframes.
- Ensure all designs meet statutory, non-statutory, client, and manufacturer documentation requirements.
- Identify non-compliance and safety issues, proposing solutions as needed.
- Maintain due diligence and exercise sound engineering judgment in all tasks.
- Technical Skills & Tools
- Proficiently use design tools and software such as AutoCAD, PVSol, SolarEdge, and EOM.
- Support calculations for AC/DC loads, earthing, batteries, cable weights, and specifications.
- Add supporting evidence and documentation to design reports for review.
- Project & Data Management
- Complete daily work schedules and maintain accurate data within company management tools.
- Follow company processes and documentation standards.
- Support and instruct on-site surveys, ensuring accurate information is captured for first-time-right designs.
- Client & Stakeholder Engagement
- Liaise with clients to ensure designs meet their requirements and incorporate feedback.
- Attend stakeholder calls, design forums, and workshops as required.
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Continuous Improvement & Learning
- Participate in training programs and continuous learning to enhance skills.
- Assist in preparing technical documentation and cost estimates for tender responses.
- Address and overcome design issues with efficient solutions.
Development Path
- Phase 1:
- Gain a strong understanding of solar PV design principles, site assessments, and system design.
- Participate in technical training and support tender documentation.
- Phase 2:
- Ensure compliance with G99 regulations for UK power systems.
- Develop expertise in electrical system design, cable/protection calculations, and advanced CAD/PV software.
- Take a lead role in technical documentation and client liaison.
- Support team meetings and instructions from business development managers (BDMs).
- Ensure all company data and tools are kept up to date and clear.
- Attend and contribute to meetings and workshops as required
What we are looking for
Minimum Qualifications
- 18th Edition Wiring Regulations (2382-22)
- Electrical HNC, HND, Degree or similar
Preferred Qualifications
- Solar PV training or CPD certifications
- Electrical Installations (QCF Level 3 – 2357/2365)
- Electrical Testing & Inspection (QCF Level 3 – 2391)
- Experience in commercial-scale design projects
- Electrical Design & Verification of Installations (QCF Level 4 / 2396)
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Cory Ambler at cory.ambler@mitie.com.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 76,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
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