Electrical Engineer

4 months ago


Ilminster, United Kingdom Knight Electrical Switchgear Full time

We are recruiting for an Electrical Engineer to join our team

Hours of work - 39 hours per week, worked as 8.5 hours Monday to Thursday and 5 hours Friday.
Additional hours may be required to meet specific customer requirements.

Job purpose - Designing low voltage switchboards and similar products to customer specifications.

Main Duties - Making use of estimates (prepared by others), and customer specifications to design low voltage electrical switchgear and similar products.

Compiling parts lists from the company s parts database and arranging with the purchasing team for materials to be procured in advance of production start.

Communicating requirements to CAD staff who will prepare detailed drawings for you.

Provision of handover packs to supervisory production staff and progressing queries during the build process.
Agreeing and proactively managing timelines.

Skills / attributes

Experience of working with or designing LV switchgear
Ability to understand electrical schematics and bills of materials
Ability to negotiate with internal and external customers and suppliers
Ability to handle a varied number of projects at the same time
Problem solving and working to deadlines
Commercial awareness
Basic / intermediate use of Microsoft Office and similar software
CAD (basic level only as the company has a CAD department)

Background Knight Electrical Switchgear is a specialist provider of electrical switchgear, control panels and related products. The company s products are built in a dedicated factory in Donyatt and installed in hospitals, schools, prisons, naval bases, museums, shops, solar farms etc throughout the UK. The company is successful, innovative and widely recognised as one of the foremost suppliers of its type in the UK.


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