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Design Delivery Manager (HV Substations)

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Major Recruitment are currently recruiting for a Design Manager in Carlisle to work on a High Voltage / Substations project

Location: Carlisle (Minimum 3 days/week on-site)

Rate: ~£400/day (Inside IR35)

Contract Duration: 3-6 Months
Location : Rockcliffe, Carlisle Cumbria CA6 4EZ

About the Role

Looking for an experienced Design Manager to take ownership of end-to-end design activities for a major High Voltage substation project (Project Harker) in Carlisle. Joining a leading transmission & distribution business, you will act as the key technical link between engineering teams, project managers, commercial leads, and client representatives.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design Delivery: Lead and monitor the design schedule to ensure all deliverables hit key milestone dates.
  • Quality & Technical Assurance: Ensure all engineering outputs align strictly with National Grid (NG), SSE, and CDM safety standards.
  • Commercial Control (NEC): Manage design variations, Early Warnings (EWNs), and Compensation Events (CEs) to control cost impacts.
  • Stakeholder Coordination: Lead design review meetings and resolve Requests for Information (RFIs) and Technical Queries (TQs) between site teams and external designers.
  • Design Safety: Enforce safety-by-design principles across both temporary and permanent works.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of Design Management or Senior Engineering experience in the energy sector.
  • HV Substation experience (UK electricity transmission sector) is essential.
  • Strong working knowledge of National Grid processes, standards, and assurance gateways.
  • Proven experience managing NEC contract change control processes.
  • Must be willing to commit to at least 3 days per week on-site in Carlisle.

Major Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies and as an Employment Business in relation to temporary or contract vacancies, as defined under the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.

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Working closely with the design and production teams you will check that products are correctly built and conform to test procedures. This will include programming a range of processors. You will perform tests based on set procedures and recommendation for improvements in the efficiency of testing, fault find down to component level aided with circuit diagrams and maintain test equipment used to interface product under test.

You will also design and build test equipment required to improve testing efficiency of the Companies products, assist team members with fault finding and the development of new products and adhere to all quality & health and safety standards e.g. Failure reporting systems

YOUR SKILLS

The successful candidate will have a HNC or Degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering or equivalent and some experience of electrical & electronics testing within a manufacturing environment. You will also have experience of using general test equipment (multimeters, oscilloscopes, function generators and current meters). You will need to be able to fault find down to component level and be able to communicate with staff at all levels.

This is an exciting role with a growing technology company. If you are interested in joining a forward thinking team please call Adam Jones at Major Recruitment or click Apply Now to send your CV

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An Electronics Test Technician is needed by a busy engineering company to join their team

Working closely with the design and production teams you will check that products are correctly built and conform to test procedures. This will include programming a range of processors. You will perform tests based on set procedures and recommendation for improvements in the efficiency of testing, fault find down to component level aided with circuit diagrams and maintain test equipment used to interface product under test.

You will also design and build test equipment required to improve testing efficiency of the Companies products, assist team members with fault finding and the development of new products and adhere to all quality & health and safety standards e.g. Failure reporting systems

YOUR SKILLS

The successful candidate will have a HNC or Degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering or equivalent and some experience of electrical & electronics testing within a manufacturing environment. You will also have experience of using general test equipment (multimeters, oscilloscopes, function generators and current meters). You will need to be able to fault find down to component level and be able to communicate with staff at all levels.

This is an exciting role with a growing technology company. If you are interested in joining a forward thinking team please call Adam Jones at Major Recruitment or click Apply Now to send your CV

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An Electronics Test Technician is needed by a busy engineering company to join their team

Working closely with the design and production teams you will check that products are correctly built and conform to test procedures. This will include programming a range of processors. You will perform tests based on set procedures and recommendation for improvements in the efficiency of testing, fault find down to component level aided with circuit diagrams and maintain test equipment used to interface product under test.

You will also design and build test equipment required to improve testing efficiency of the Companies products, assist team members with fault finding and the development of new products and adhere to all quality & health and safety standards e.g. Failure reporting systems

YOUR SKILLS

The successful candidate will have a HNC or Degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering or equivalent and some experience of electrical & electronics testing within a manufacturing environment. You will also have experience of using general test equipment (multimeters, oscilloscopes, function generators and current meters). You will need to be able to fault find down to component level and be able to communicate with staff at all levels.

This is an exciting role with a growing technology company. If you are interested in joining a forward thinking team please call Adam Jones at Major Recruitment or click Apply Now to send your CV

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Other duties will include

  • Calibrate a wide range of multi-parameter test equipment from a range of industry sectors
  • Provide certificate details when calibration complete
  • Identify and share ways of improving test techniques and increasing parameters.
  • Maintain high quality levels throughout testing
  • Obtain product specifications and maintaining a suitable library facility
  • Maintain, and safeguard the integrity of test equipment and company standards
  • Enter data correctly and update the job progression system
  • Maintain turn round times to a minimum level

You will ideally have a HNC in electrical/electronics minimum or a similar discipline, experience within the instrumentation industry or previous calibration experience in an electrical/electronic role, good mathematical skills and be meticulous & quality driven with good interpersonal skills and the ability to meet client deadlines

If you would like more information on this exciting opportunity please call Adam Jones at Major Recruitment or click Apply Now to send your CV

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