Combined Heat and Power and Generator Electrical Design Engineer
**Design of CHP and power generation systems
- Location: Wirral, Liverpool
- Salary: £50,000 GROSS PA -£60,000 GROSS PA (depending on experience)
- Cash or Car allowance £7,000
Benefits
- 33 days holiday including Bank Holidays.
- Company Pension Sacrifice Nest, Life assurance.
- Income protection, Cashplan UK Healthcare
- Full training program and commitment to CPD
- Career progression opportunities
- Access to Perkbox & Salary Sacrifice Schemes
- Employee Assistance Programme.
Overview
Wirral-headquartered renewable Combined Heat and Power (CHP) and generator specialists, operating on liquid biofuels, diesel, natural gas, biogas and syngas, the company are expanding its workforce to meet the growing demand for its OEM products and services.
The company is an award-winning business specialising in the design, manufacture and operation of a range of CHP units and power generation systems. Our range of applications begin at 5kWe through to 2.5mWe and everything in between and multiples thereof. Our renewable power systems are utilised by a wide range of commercial application throughout the UK where a zero-carbon energy solution, reliability, and grid resilience are critical.
The Role
- Take lead of electrical design matters within the projects department whilst supporting both sales, and service functions of the business.
- Evaluate, interpret and develop concepts into deliverable designs, using all technical data to ensure the safe and functional as well as contractual specifications are met in accordance with the development of a range of liquid and gas-powered combined heat and power, and power generation systems. Applying electrical and electromechanical principles to develop efficient and reliable installations.
- Work closely with mechanical engineering to identify project deliverables and coordinate M&E designs.
- Participate, and where necessary lead, internal and customer facing design review meetings.
- Design of electrical layouts and infrastructure, control panels, PLC interface, distribution, protection and control strategies to UK electrical regulations for a range of CHP and power generation systems operating at 415 to 11kV to meet requirements of assigned projects, including functionally, breaker and contactor interface and cable sizing and calculation.
- Using CAD packages including AutoCAD, Eplan Amtech and BIM software to ensure the correct evaluation interpretation, safety and compliance of a customer's requirements, whilst understanding the commercial aspects of containerised power generation and CHP equipment. Liaise with the Draughtsman to ensure that any design packages produced are on time and of the required quality.
- Electrical design and control of complex fuel storage and transfer control systems for oil and liquid fuel systems including trace heating, UPS battery support and fire system interface.
- Design of package plantroom, cable containment, power, control, lighting, motor starting systems, actuating valves, and power distribution boards associated with the design, which meets and exceeds current legislative requirements.
- Work closely with the project delivery team and specialist subcontractors, attending site to monitor correct installation processes and continuous improvement practices are being maintained, whilst ensuring as-built detail is complaint and recorded.
- Attend site installations that have not been designed or installed and be the competent person interrogating the application and proposing system design improvements.
- Develop, write, and review commissioning processes and ongoing maintenance schemes.
Skills and qualifications
- Ability to communicate at all levels with non-technical and technical colleagues, customers, and suppliers.
- A BEng in an electrical or electromechanical design discipline is desirable but not essential if you have a technical certificate and/or proven experience and competence in the design of CHP and power generation systems.
- Experience of designing building infrastructure systems including power distribution, earthing integration, BMS & BEMS control systems, cable containment, fire & security systems, cable sizing and control interfaces with other 3rd party systems.
- Knowledge of ComAP control systems, and other relating third party hardware to implement full scale plant Balance of Plant control systems.
- Knowledge of Modbus TCP/IP, Profibus, CANbus and other industrial communication protocols to facilitate commissioning on site.
- Experience of designing containerised or packaged solutions. Outlining full technical details by way of drawings, fully detailed calculations and written schemes of work to uphold the responsible qualified person status within the company for the compliance and accurate electrical design.
- Experience of hazardous zoning standards and ATEX risk assessment process that impact on designs.
- Experience of designing synchronous generation systems that run both as island mode power plants and grid parallel systems at both LV and HV.
- DNO protection requirements of embedded power generation systems such as G99 & G100 including application process would be beneficial.
- A wide understanding of CDM regulations & other relating HSE requirements, and the impact of your design against current legislation.
- Understanding of project budgeting and value engineering process benefits.
- Have a full understanding of the 18th edition wiring regulations (BS 7671).
Attributes
- Ability and experience of working on multiple projects at any one-time, prioritising workload to support business demands.
- Ability to work as part of a wider team of engineers and project delivery personnel, as well as on your own, to manage workload demands and outcomes.
- Prepared to work with other departments as and when the business requires, including in house knowledge development of trainees or junior engineers.
- Proactive approach to finding the most efficient technical solutions within a range of applications and complexities.
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