EC&I Design Engineer
Location: Bridgwater, Somerset (Hybrid / Remote options available)
Job Type: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Working Pattern: Flexible (Optional 4-day or 5-day working week)
Salary/Package: Competitive Salary + 8% Pension + Health Cash Plan + Profit-Sharing Scheme
Security Clearance: Must be able to obtain UK Security Clearance
About the Client:
Our client is a highly respected engineering specialist delivering top-tier electrical and control design solutions across a range of strictly regulated sectors. They are known for providing an exceptional, flexible working environment that includes optional compressed hours (a 4-day working week), a substantial 8% company pension contribution, and an innovative profit-sharing scheme that feeds directly into a staff-managed wellbeing fund.
About the Opportunity:
This is a core, design-centric role within an expanding engineering team. While our client operates extensively across the nuclear sector (including new build, generation, decommissioning, and defence), previous nuclear experience is not required.
If you have a strong background in alternative regulated or industrial environments - such as Oil & Gas, energy, water, or heavy manufacturing - you will be fully supported with the training needed to adapt your skills to nuclear-specific standards. This position is perfect for a technically competent, inquisitive engineer who enjoys detailed design work and wants to develop true depth of expertise.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
Design Delivery
Output Production: Develop high-quality electrical and control designs, including schematics, layout drawings, schedules, and associated design documentation under the guidance of senior team members.
Engineering Judgement: Apply sound technical knowledge to equipment selection and design decisions, ensuring all outputs are practical, compliant, and buildable.
Technical Contribution
Requirement Interpretation: Analyse project specifications, identifying any gaps, assumptions, or technical inconsistencies, and raise them appropriately.
Problem Solving: Resolve routine technical design challenges within your area of competence, incorporating review comments accurately.
Collaboration & Communication
Cross-Functional Teamwork: Work closely with Project Managers, fellow engineers, and production/commissioning teams to ensure designs support programme, cost, and build objectives.
Stakeholder Engagement: Contribute constructively to technical discussions, design reviews, and occasional client or supplier site visits.
Quality & Compliance
Standards Adherence: Ensure all design work complies with internal company procedures, ISO standards, and relevant health and safety requirements.
Record Keeping: Maintain clear, accurate, and well-structured engineering records suitable for formal checking and handover.
Candidate Profile:
Qualifications & Experience
Education: HNC/HND or equivalent qualification in Electrical, Control, or a related engineering discipline (a degree is advantageous but not essential).
Experience Track Record: Typically 3+ years of experience working in an EC&I design role within an engineering, industrial, or regulated environment.
Sector Background: Experience in regulated industries (e.g., Oil & Gas, energy, utilities, or manufacturing).
Vetting: Able to successfully undergo UK security vetting.
Technical Capabilities
Design Tools: Solid understanding of electrical and control design fundamentals, with experience using CAD platforms such as AutoCAD, EPLAN, or equivalent tools.
Equipment Specification: Competent in specifying EC&I equipment for control panels and associated systems, with particular exposure to relay-based control applications.
Systems Awareness: A good working awareness of related EC&I topics-such as functional safety, PLC-based systems, BS7671, instrumentation, and MCC/switchgear-sufficient to collaborate effectively with Senior and Lead Engineers.
Key Behaviours
Ownership: A professional approach with a commitment to taking ownership of assigned tasks and raising potential issues early.
Mindset: A practical, positive, and solution-focused approach to engineering challenges.
Growth: Curious, improvement-minded, and eager to learn better ways of working within a structured engineering hierarchy.
