Join us a Principal Electrical Design Engineer
📍 Location: Glasgow
📝 Contract/Staff Position

Your Future Team:

The Electrical Design Engineer will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary engineering team within the Approving Authority, the primary purpose of the role is to directly support current operations and future programmes. Supporting nuclear facilities & the delivery of services across both Client Sites near Helensburgh.

Your Missions

• 📄 Manage Infrastructure Design Substantiation documents.
• 🔄 Handle design changes/concessions.
• 📊 Present Design substantiations to safety committees.
• 📅 Develop EIMT Schedule, procedures, and results.
• 📝 Produce Periodic Review of Safety reports.
• 🗣️ Advise internal and external stakeholders.
• 🕵️‍♂️ Conduct Independent Technical Review.
• 🛠️ Apply engineering knowledge to nuclear/high-risk environments.
• 🏗️ Justify civil/structural design modifications.
• 🔍 Review reports and safety submissions.
• 📝 Check and review calculations and technical documents.

Why join the community of Switchers?:

🔹 The Group is currently ranked Third in the world for nuclear engineering.

🔹A dynamic career management policy to enable our employees to progress through our five business lines: operations, project, technical, sales and support functions

🔹Provide opportunities to work on exciting, global projects

🔹Access to an employee assistance programme with free mindfulness, health, wellbeing resources and a confidential support line available 24/7 via phone or text

🔹Discount vouchers for days out and restaurants, eye test and glasses vouchers, cycle to work scheme, free flu jabs

At Assystem, we celebrate diversity and creativity. We believe in harnessing unique perspectives to shape innovative solutions. Your skills and daring spirit are what truly matter. Join us and help shape the future! 🌟

• 📐 Knowledge of current design standards and practices, including British & European Standards.
• ⚡ Theoretical and practical skills across concept, detailed design, and construction stages for electrical engineering projects.
• 🏗️ Experience in assessing electrical plant and equipment for hazards.
• 💡 Specifying electrical systems/components for HV & LV networks at 50Hz & 60Hz.
• 📝 Authoring technical justifications for electrical design modifications in high hazard industries.
• 🏭 Familiarity with industrial machinery like pumps, generators, HVAC, SCADA, PAVA Systems, etc.
• 🤝 Experience in multi-discipline projects providing electrical engineering input, especially in industrial/maritime sectors.
• 🌡️ Experienced in high-risk environments.
• 🛠️ Familiarity with safety case development techniques like HAZID/HAZOP studies.
• 💼 Worked in the UK nuclear industry (energy or defense), especially in safety-related structures, systems, and components.
• 📜 Knowledge of UK and US nuclear industry regulations, and application of nuclear-specific codes and standards.

• 🏢 Hybrid role with visits to client site near Helensburgh & Glasgow offices.
• 🔒 Security Clearance: SC, UK National.
• 🎓 BEng in electrical engineering or equivalent experience.
• 👷 Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or equivalent experience.
• ⚠️ Safety case related training.

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.