Electrical Department Head

**Key location: Billingham**
**Background**

TÜV Rheinland is a leading provider of technical services worldwide. We provide a broad range of testing, inspection and certification services to ensure the safety, reliability and regulatory compliance of engineering assets throughout their lifecycle. If you contribute your experience to us in the future, you will experience a surprisingly broad spectrum of national and international challenges, all of which are associated with safety, efficiency, and sustainability.
As part of the TUV family Risktec Resourcing have been tasked to assist our sister company TUV Rheinland Industrial Services (TRIS) formerly ABB’s UK technical engineering consultancy to source a Piping & Mechanical Department Head on a permanent basis in there Billingham, UK Office.

**Role Description**

The suitable person must be a graduate electrical engineer (prefferably chartered) with a min 10 years experience managing electrical teams.

**Key Responsibilities:
- Manage and advise on technical aspects of the Electrical Engineering project process.
- Create project schedules for assigned projects and actively manage and engage with the engineering team to deliver projects within agreed schedules and budgets.
- Estimate engineering hours for project deliverables and create proposals for new work.
- Support the Project Manager to develop updates for customers.
- Participate and coordinate both internal and external project meetings with the engineering teams, clients and suppliers.
- Take into account the multidiscipline nature of plant design and independently liaise and communicate with the appropriate disciplines and customers as required.
- Disseminate project information, scope, etc. with a multidiscipline team.
- Develop and maintain project budgets and schedules.
- Together with the department heads, monitor and assess design progress and productivity, and take corrective action if necessary.
- Design, develop, review and approve electrical and controls (IEC) engineering drawings, specifications and documents in line with national and international standards.
- Conduct electrical design calculations and approve calculations conducted by others including earthing, cable sizing, Short Circuit Calculation, Cantilever strength calculation, Battery Sizing calculations, voltage drop, lighting levels, cable tray fill and heat tracing etc.
- Prepare and review datasheets and/or procurement packages for electrical equipment.
- Preparation of key engineering design documents including SLD’s, Schematic Diagrams, Cable Schedules and Layout Plans.
- Liaise with vendors, select and oversee purchase of electrical equipment & components.
- Assist in preparing project documents including scopes, schedules and reports. Manage conflicting priorities among simultaneous projects.

**Key skills **required include:

- Minimum of 10 years of electrical engineering experience, preferably in oil & gas, chemicals and/or other high hazard process industries.
- Appropriate Technical Engineering Degree and preferably a Chartered Engineer with an appropriate institution.
- Knowledge of regulations, codes, manufacturing standards, and industry standard practices.
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team environment.
- Ability to allocate work appropriately to design staff and monitor progress to meet project needs.
- Ability to work in both design office and operating plant environments.
- Comfortable dealing directly with both Clients and Vendors at all levels.
- Expertise using MS office suite and knowledge of AutoCAD.
- Experience in the use of AVEVA E3D.
- Experience in the design of HV and LV Power distribution systems, LHV/LV Switchgear Panels and MCC’s.
- Experience in Relay Coordination, Load Flow, Short Circuit and Motor start studies.
- Knowledge of ATEX and equipment for electrically hazardous areas.
- exposure to IEC, IEEE, IS, CBIP & ANSI Standards.
- Proficiency in AUTOCAD, DIALUX, CG LUX Software. Knowledge or experience of Functional Safety, preferably holding a suitable FS qualification.

**Our Offer
- Standard hours Monday to Friday 40 hours per week.
- Excellent Health Insurance.
- Life insurance.
- Group Income Protection.
- 25 days holiday.
- Permanent full-time position, office, client site, and home based - hybrid working.
- Accredited training to internationally recognised engineering appointment.
- Company car or Car allowance.
- Opportunities to work in many sectors of UK industry.