Senior Electrical Designer

About The Role

Do you enjoy a challenge? Do you want to make a difference? Are you ready to engineer change within the industry and wider community?  

At PD&MS, we’re determined to help drive the change that our world needs to see. To support current and new customers to be part of the energy transition, through future-friendly solutions.   

You can be part of our vision!  

Working Pattern: Permanent / Full Time 

As the Senior Electrical Designer, you will: 

• Work as part of a design team and produces engineering design deliverables. The Designer is responsible for ensuring that designs meet project requirements. This role is required to execute Electrical discipline design activities within budget and schedule.
• Carry out work in accordance with PD&MS and project Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality systems.
• Maintain the required technical quality of work.
• Identify scope and schedule changes in accordance with the MoC Process.
• Ensure that designs comply with the relevant procedures and regulations.
• Ensure, as far as practically possible, that all assigned work is carried out in compliance with agreed budget and schedule.
• Keep up to date with technical developments, National and International standards and legislative requirements related to discipline workscope.
• Encourage and provide lateral learning within the discipline.
• Provide technical assistance to staff as required.
• Assist the Lead Designer and others when requested in the execution of their responsibilities and duties.
• Have a flexible working attitude to deal with an environment that operates 24hrs/day 365 days/year is essential.
• Be technically competent in own discipline and actively maintains own competence according to standards and pursues continuous professional development.

The role offers  

• Development opportunities: the opportunity to develop within your technical department, to be appreciated, to work with people who have the same goals and are driven to succeed.
• Varied workload: you’ll have the chance to transfer your skills and develop in our industry and deliver on projects across the fully energy sector, from conventional to renewable energies.
• Opportunities for transferable skills: if you’re experience isn’t traditional oil & gas, we still want to hear from you!  If you’ve EPC experience in nuclear, rail, utilities, petro-chemical, renewables, marine and pharmaceuticals then please apply.
• Salary: Competitive Salary depending on knowledge and experience plus a range of benefits that support your finances, wellbeing, and family.
• Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, Income Protection, Private Medical Cover, Private Dental Cover, 33 days holiday, Holiday Buy, Flexible Working and Employee Assist Programme and CrashPlan.
• Location: Glasgow or Aberdeen – hybrid working 3 days in the office with flexibility to work from home for 2 days.

About You

You’ll have experience of: 

• Electrical design experience (Oil & Gas preferred but not essential) in delivery of Electrical projects
• Safety awareness and culture in all modifications involved in.
• Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality systems.
• Working with other designers and coordinating work tasks to achieve required plan dates
• Managing own scope budgets, produce scope estimates and recognising and controlling scope change.
• Software packages used for Electrical engineering design;

- AUTOCAD (and RastorCAD)

- Microstation

- Bluebeam

• Producing the below design deliverables;

- Block Diagrams

- Single Line Diagrams

- Termination Diagrams

- Interconnection Diagrams

- Electrical Equipment Layout Diagrams

- Cable Schedules

- Cable Routing Drawings

- Bill of Materials

- Material Requisitions

Personal attributes

Our GENES, our core values, define who we are, what we stand for and how we deliver.  

• Go the extra mile
• Empower our people
• Never get complacent
• Engage our partners
• Step up and deliver

If this sounds like you, then you could be a perfect fit. 

Qualifications

• HNC in relevant engineering discipline 

About Us

PD&MS has been engineering solutions in the energy industry and beyond since 2002, our ability to combine innovative ideas with technical expertise sets us apart. A flexible, full-service provider committed to supporting the energy transition, we deliver high-quality project work across the entire lifecycle of assets within the oil and gas, renewables and nuclear sectors. But whoever we work with, it’s the energy, professionalism and purpose of our people that really makes the difference. 

Be who you’re meant to be, with PD&MS 

We firmly believe in a work culture in which: individual differences are a source of collective strength and pride; everybody can perform to the best of their abilities and on a level playing field; and all colleagues feel they’re part of our team and their voices will be heard.  We’re already heartened by the diversity within our organisation, but we recognise that there’s always more we can do to improve further.  We welcome applications from all persons regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status. 

We’re energised by the prospect of operating successfully today, tomorrow and far into the future. But we’re also driven to ensure that our business activities are conducted in socially responsible, morally acceptable and sustainable ways.