Chief Electrical Design Engineer - London, United Kingdom - Expleo Engineering UK Limited

Description

A key member of the Hardware Engineering team, this role will work to provide electrical design engineering expertise for maritime control and instrumentation systems throughout the full project lifecycle, from requirements and concept design through to validation and qualification.

This will involve the selection, design, development and analysis of electrical systems and components to deliver a Platform Management System (PMS) on a variety of Defence programmes.

Key Responsibilities

Electrical design engineering Subject Matter Expert (SME) or technical lead for Platform Management Systems (PMS)
Design and develop electrical panel/enclosure/cabinet design in accordance with customer requirements and first principles where required.
Create, modify, maintain and manage electrical designs for power and control systems
Analyse and justify electrical based designs and component selection
Review electrical schematics in accordance with relevant standards and internal Computer Aided Design (CAD) processes.
Produce, modify, maintain and manage technical documents to support contractual deliverables (e.g. specifications, design documents, Bill of Materials (BOMs) etc.)
Resolve electrical issues during hardware design, development, manufacture, integration and qualification
Drive and oversee the electrical safety testing of designed and manufactured equipment
Support test equipment design, where required
Support the running of functional and test equipment during testing phases
Manage and adhere to configuration management processes for baseline control throughout the full project lifecycle
Manage and adhere to change control processes, providing input to impact assessments
Collaboratively support other engineering and supporting functions from an electrical engineering perspective
Provide electrical engineering expertise to derive, define, decompose and manage requirements
Produce, maintain and manage calculations to support electrical design engineering tasks (e.g. wild heat, cooling, power, battery charge/discharge etc.)
Raising Technical Queries (TQ) for ratification and managing electrical design engineering risks
Act as a customer and supplier facing electrical design engineering SME
Apply working knowledge of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) from an electrical design engineering perspective
Verify and validate customer electrical requirements through the production/modification of electrical test documents
To be aware of and comply with company standards of conduct and all relevant statutory requirements

General Operational duties

Attend department meetings as required
Remain compliant with all applicable processes and procedures
Support the Electrical Line Manager in developing and growing a professional and engaged team