Role: Design Support Engineer

Location: Leatherhead 

Basic Salary: £32 000 - £40 000/annum based on experience 

Timely Recruit is recruiting Design Support Engineer. This is an exciting opportunity for a Design Support Engineer to join a small, focused team that are committed to the design, construction and operation of quality Gas and Electricity Distribution Networks.

Why join this business: 

• Part of a team committed to the efficient design, construction, operation and maintenance of compliant and safe gas and electricity distribution networks.
• An opportunity for continuous learning and self development.
• Opportunity to work with well established experts and a lot to be learnt from their expertise.
• It will equip you to be strongly analytical and enhance problem solving skills.
• An exciting opportunity to join a small, focused, committed team.
• Development of relationship skills.
• Modern Offices and great people to work with.

Please APPLY NOW 

Job Purpose: Electricity/Gas Design Support Engineer

The Design Support Engineer has to ensure the safe adoption of distribution networks operating up to 7barg/11kV, ensuring that company's specifications are met. Reviewing expanding network demand and maintaining a high standard of the asset register is vital to organisation's continued growth.

Summary of main duties and responsibilities:

• Ensuring compliance with design, construction and safety standards as appropriate.
• Liaison with customers over network design issues to ensure compliance with company's design and construction policies and standards.
• Management of applications for connections on to the upstream operator's network associated with organisation's managed networks.
• Verification of applications for Electricity and Gas connections on to the upstream operator's network made by customers associated with asset adoption works.
• Manage applications made by other network operator's or customers for connections on to networks including evaluation of any network reinforcement requirements.
• Manage the relationship between the company and all upstream parties for capacity and demand negotiations.
• Delivery of CAD designs and drawings where required.
• Development of safety and risk assessment requirements required at the design and adoption stages of a project.
• Ensuring that the requirements of the company's Health and Safety Policy are met.
• Ensuring that the requirements of the organization's Asset Management System are met. 
• Participation in reviews and updates of the current operational procedures and technical standards.

Attributes and Experience

• Gas or electricity network design experience with the ability to use IT based design software.
• A good understanding of 2D CAD drawing. 
• An ability to adopt a wider perspective than the immediate bounds of the role description.
• A team player
• Transferable experience in ensuring Compliance and safe adoption of Electricity and Gas Distribution Networks
• Design knowledge and experience of 11KV networks or 7 barg networks
• Working experience in the Electricity or Gas distribution sector. 
• Designing networks and analytically minded

• If you meet these requirements and are interested to discuss the role, Please APPLY NOW