Job summary

We have 6 EC&I Design opportunities to work on the most advanced submarines ever operated by the Royal Navy. Apply or contact me directly.

Key skills required for this role

EC&I, Electrical, Control and Instrumentation, PID control, Electrical circuits design, EMC, Power Supply, Safety Integrity Levels

Important

You must be based in the UK and have a British Passport

Job description

Working arrangements

Hybrid - expected onsite 2 days per fortnight.

Location flexible - Barrow, Filton, Frimley or Brough.

The Principal Engineer (C) - Electrical Engineering (C&I) shall provide support to the Engineering Manager and/or external specialists during development, analysis, integration and verification of platform control and instrumentation systems.

JOB FUNCTION

In accordance with the level of supervision/responsibility assigned by role/grade:

• Develop design solutions to agreed time, cost and quality in accordance with project or business milestones.
• Develop and manage requirements and acceptance criteria specific to a system or product and/or across a system of systems, platform or programme
• Understand the contractual and performance requirements for various systems, and support the definition and associated acceptance criteria and events through design, build, integration, installation and commissioning activities.
• Produce documentation required to support the design review process, including: diagrams; technical specifications; supporting calculations; design evidence and justifications
• Ensure design proving evidence is comprehensive, captured within the requirements management tools and has been endorsed by the appropriate level of authority
• Ensure compliance against contractual requirements and that work is undertaken in accordance with company, safety, environmental, contractual and local business processes, standards, procedures and documentation.
• Undertake design reviews and presentations to customers.

Essential

• Develop a functional design for C&I solution for complex propulsion, mechanical and electrical systems, including deriving the functional design from Piping & Instrumentation diagrams
• Producing Bill of Materials for C&I equipment
• Specifying instrumentation measuring pressure/temperature/flow/level/analysis that is fit for purpose for specific process conditions
• Producing a C&I design that satisfies a wide range of requirements such as; functional; safety; defence standards, British standards, naval standards, nuclear standards
• Judging and measuring compliance against non-functional stakeholders (EMC, Shock, Metallics etc.)
• Produce verification evidence to demonstrate design compliance with requirements
• Production of various design documents such as; I/O schedules, instrument schedules, cable schedules, functional design specification, instrument specification
• Implementation of physical system-to-system interface design
• Undertaking/leading technical design reviews for C&I

SUBJECT KNOWLEDGE and QUALIFICATIONS

• BEng (Hons) / MEng or equivalent.
• CEng (or be able to satisfy requirements for CEng)
• Technical report writing skills.
• Demonstrable experience of engineering lifecycle.
• Knowledge and experience in defence standards whilst not essential would be an advantage.

In depth understanding of at least one of the following areas:

• Instrumentation and control system theory including PID control,
• Electrical circuits design, EMC precautions and power supply characteristics
• Safety Integrity Levels and BS EN 61508 or 61511
• PLC programming to IEC 61131-3 standard - fieldbus technology (Profibus/Profinet)