Senior Electrical Design Engineer
Coffey is a family-owned water infrastructure and civil engineering specialist established in 1974. We are passionate about safety and have been delivering critical infrastructure projects on time and within budget for nearly 50 years. The hallmarks of our contracts are innovative solutions, engineering ingenuity, professional construction management and adherence to the highest safety and quality standards.
We are hiring a Senior Electrical Design Engineer.
Working closely with closely with other Design Engineers, the Electrical Design Engineer will assist the preparation of preliminary designs, detailed designs, and the ongoing support of live contracts.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Supporting the Engineering Director and Design Manager to deliver Coffey design works across Ireland and the UK for public and private sector clients.
- Perform preliminary and detailed EICA design of water / wastewater treatment plants.
- Application of appropriate software to provide advice, solutions and successful outcomes to achieve contract objectives.
- Developing and adopting standards in design to streamline engineering tasks.
- Liaise with external consultants, supply chain partners, contractors and other stakeholders.
- Determine the applicable design and installation standards, and ensuring they are applied on projects.
- Actively mentoring, training and providing guidance to staff within the engineering process and wider Coffey project.
- Developing cable schedules, block diagrams, and single line diagrams.
- Ability to plan and develop electrical layout drawings, including cable runs and ducts, using CAD packages.
- Developing motor and instrumentation schedules.
- Developing of drive and load schedules.
- Developing of hardwired interlock schedules.
- Experience of developing I/O, FDS and control philosophies for water and wastewater infrastructure.
- Contribute to functional design specifications.
- Testing (FAT and SAT) of MCC and control panels.
- Inspection and assessment of electrical installations.
- Assist the Commissioning Manager in the development of site commissioning procedures and project specific plans.
- Assisting the commercial/estimating team members in developing CAPEX and OPEX models for electrical, instrumentation, control and automation equipment and systems.
- Assisting the Tendering Department in preparing tender submissions.
- Technical specification and report writing.
- Occasional travel required to project sites will be required
- Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering or Automation.
- +10 years of experience in EICA Design in water / wastewater sector.
- Chartered status is an advantage.
- Professional Membership of a relevant institution (i.e. Engineers Ireland, IET)
- Proven experience in delivery of technical designs
- Excellent technical and commercial knowledge of electrical infrastructure design, construction, and commissioning.
- Experience of electrical installations, MCC, SCADA and PLCs in the water / wastewater industry.
- Familiarity in design of site power distribution, cabling, pumps, DOL and start-delta drives, variable speed drives and the various types of motorized plant common within the water / wastewater industry.
- Strong organisational skills and report writing experience with experience of relevant electrical standards.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite and a knowledge 2D/3D CAD software.
- Fluent Engineer excellent written & spoken English
- Must have a Full Clean Irish/UK/European Driver's License
- No Sponsorship Available
- Ability to work efficiently, whether on their own or in a team environment.
- Diligent with an attention to detail.
In order to work in Ireland a non-EEA National, unless they are exempted, must hold a valid employment permit. Please review the eligibility and requirements for an employment permit if you are unsure of your eligibility to apply for this vacancy.
