Electrical Design Engineer

Job Description

We are Centrica! We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Working here is #MoreThanACareer - we’re powered by purpose. Together we can make an impact that will truly change tomorrow. Whether you’re developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.

Your work here isn’t job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future.

We’ve been keeping Britain warm for over 200 years. Today we power 1 in 3 homes in the UK – but supplying energy is just part of what we do.

That’s why we need a brilliant Electrical Design Engineer to help us get to where we’re going. You’ll bring bags of energy, know-how and passion to our family of door-opening brands, including British Gas and Hive. And you’ll join a team who are just as focused delivering on fantastic results as you are.

In this role, you will undertake detailed network design, planning and quotations of LV/HV networks associated with the construction and installation of new electricity contestable infrastructure, connections, and diversions. You will liaise with the siteworks design and planning team, service providers, DNO, IDNOs and housing developers to ascertain the most optimum economical and engineering infrastructure solution for our customers.

Key Accountabilities:

• Prepare design proposals and quotations.
• Planning, design and co-ordination of projects for the company’s electric distribution networks and metering installations, in compliance with all company, financial, statutory, legal, engineering and HS&E requirements.
• Assess design variations.
• Liaise with Developers, clients and contractors; determine client requirements.
• Effectively use management information and readily make value and cost driven decisions which improve customer, employee and commercial performance
• Responsibility for the technical compliance of electrical network design to meet the client’s requirements, ensuring they satisfy company quality requirements, they are compliant with current DNO/IDNO policy, ENA Documentation, CDM Regulation, Codes of Practice, National/International Standards and legislation, company policy/procedures and contract specification, including safety compliance, as appropriate.
• Supporting the Quotation Team and where required provide outline designs.

Who are we looking for?

• Experience with an IDNO or DNO in designing individually tailored HV/LV electrical network design solutions and earthing assessments for LV and HV distribution networks for domestic, commercial, and industrial developments.
• Knowledge of obtaining approval for individually tailored network design solutions including power distribution earthing.
• Suitable engineering qualification (BEng Degree/HND or equivalent) with electrical engineering modules.
• Professional Membership of a recognised engineering institution such as the IET, preferably at Incorporated Engineer [IEng] level would be desirable.
• Good understanding of the UK power industry including technical standards DNO/IDNO network construction requirements, including a knowledge of G81 documents.

British Gas Siteworks [Siteworks] is a subsidiary of Centrica plc and is a leading Utility Infrastructure Provider (UIP), established to build new pipeline networks for the conveyance of gas networks to new build domestic and commercial consumers throughout the UK. We are fully accredited under the Gas Industry Registration Scheme (GIRS) and ISO 9001 2015 Quality Management which demonstrates our commitment to providing a high-quality professional service to our customers.

Siteworks has recently extended its gas only provision to offer a multi utility service via its accredited service providers, allowing siteworks for the very first time to offer its prospective customers gas, electric and water infrastructure.

We are proud to be recognised as a disability-confident employer. Our customers come from a variety of different backgrounds, and so do we. We hire great people from all walks of life, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. We will continue championing inclusivity while investing in our local communities to create a better, more sustainable world for everyone. We are incredibly proud to have been recognised by The Times for being one of the Top 50 Employers for Women.

Our people are the beating heart of our business. We are incredibly proud of our commitment to being FlexFirst. From childcare to furry friends, we listened to our people and understood that they work best when they are comfortable and have a flexible working model that suits their individual needs. We embrace the opportunity to give our colleagues a choice to work from anywhere whilst still ensuring they can connect and engage with their teams through office days, employee networks and virtual events.

We have tailored our well-being & benefits package around our employees as follows;

• Competitive salary and bonus potential
• Employee Energy Allowance at 15% of the government price cap
• Pension scheme
• Company Funded Healthcare Plan
• 25 days holiday allowance, plus public holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 additional days
• Excellent range of flexible benefits, including technology vouchers, electric car lease scheme & travel insurance

We are committed to creating a cleaner and greener future. And we’re making big changes to help us get there. That means cutting customers' emissions and our own to reach net zero. And because our people are the beating heart of our business, we will continue to champion inclusivity, develop future skills and invest in our local communities to create a better world for everyone. As part of our reforestation project with WeForest, for every new employee that joins our family, we plant trees in underprivileged areas in Tanzania to offer farming and wildlife economy opportunities for locals.

#LI-BGAS

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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