Job Purpose
We are seeking an enthusiastic Contract Design Engineer to join our close-knit Team at LME.
This is a great opportunity for a motivated self-starter to bring their existing skills and develop them further to become a key contributor within the Contract Engineering team whilst focusing on producing engineering solutions to meet our customers exacting technical Specifications.
Job Context
You will work as part of a small Engineering team whilst interacting closely with other pre and post sales departments to develop the design solutions required.
Design tasks will be varied with a strong electro mechanical bias.
Work to tight timescales to produce accurate and complete design packages to enable our manufacturing facility to produce product variance with minimal disruption to its normal production activities.
Job Dimensions
The role will be permanently based in LME facility and reports locally to the Head of Commercial Engineering.
Utilising the Lucy PLM system to generate complete design solutions that meet the customer requirements in accordance with the companies required procedures and policies
Key Accountabilities
- Ability to plan and execute the allocated activities within specified timelines.
- Produce accurate and complete wiring schematics and generate their manufacturing drawings.
- Develop mechanical design solutions to house and enable the functionality required by the customer within the constraints of cost and quality.
- Comply with the defined design processes developed by Lucy Engineering to issue drawings and Bills of Material.
- Generate Customer Approval drawing packages to their predefined requirements
- Actively seek, offer and implement suggestions for improvement.
Qualifications, Experience & Skills
- Degree in Electrical and / or Mechanical Engineering with an MV/LV switchgear background.
- 7 years in switchgear related activity
- Experience in auxiliary electrical, electronic and protection systems for Switchgear applications
- Sheet metal part design experience
- Good communication skills in a one to one or group environment
- PC literate in Microsoft Office
- Excellent attention to detail
- Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines
Behavioural Competencies
- Is a confident self-starter
- Able to work both independently and within a team
- Have a customer centred focus
- Good interpersonal skills with a pleasant and can-do attitude
- Highly organised
- Must have a positive and confident approach to tasks
- An ability to think logically and practically
- Ability to cope with work pressures and go the extra mile
- Proactive approach to plan project activities
Skills Required
- Degree in Electrical Engineering and/or Mechanical Engineering
- Seven years of experience in switchgear-related activity
- Medium- and low-voltage switchgear background
- Experience with auxiliary electrical, electronic, and protection systems for switchgear applications
- Sheet metal part design experience
- Good communication skills in individual and group environments
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office
- Excellent attention to detail
- Ability to prioritize and work to deadlines
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Ability to plan and execute project activities
What We Do
Lucy Electric is an internationally operating UK-based company in the industrial electrical sector. Headquartered in Thame, Oxfordshire, it maintains offices in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Brazil, India, and Malaysia. It forms part of the Lucy Group, whose origins are believed to reach back to 1760 and whose company history dates from William Carter’s 1812 ironmongery shop.
