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Electrical Design Engineer

Posted 29 October 2025
Salary Dependent on experience
LocationSunderland
Job type Permanent
Industry Sector TechnicalEngineering
ReferenceJ139946
Job FunctionElectrical Design

Job description

The Rewards and the benefits:

  • Competitive salary.

  • Career progression opportunities.

  • Stable growing organisation.

  • Generous benefits package.

  • Permanent employment.

  • Immediate start available

MTrec’s new career opportunity:

MTrec Technical are proudly representing our prestigious Engineering client, based in Tyne and Wear, with their plans for growth and expansion, by recruiting a permanent Electrical Design Engineer to join their team. You will be joining a fast-paced, dynamic company, with an excellent team-based culture and huge opportunities to progress your career. Our client is a major international player in their specialist industry sector and supplies its quality products globally. You will be joining a very secure and expanding business, where you will enjoy a varied working environment, a great team culture and a promising new career move.

The Job you’ll do:

  • Lead electrical aspects of design collaborating with mechanical engineers and shop floor technicians to ensure project milestones are delivered on time

  • Understanding and capturing customer requirements, relevant industry regulations and standards ensuring design compliance with safety and quality standards

  • Oversee / lead project delivery from initial concept to detail stage technical design reports, including calculations, schematics, functional design specifications (FDS), and schedules

  • Participate in and lead, when required, design team meetings, technical workshops and contribute to the preparation of key project documentation

  • Provide input during estimating, tendering and value engineer as and when required

  • Provide technical support internally and externally when required (e.g. FAT / SAT/ In service)

  • Analysing existing processes and schedule meetings to discuss improvement initiatives

  • Provide technical leadership and supervision to less experienced engineers

About You:

  • Minimum BEng in electrical engineering or relevant experience in this field

  • Experience in leading engineering teams with relevant experience in a similar role.

  • Strong understanding of Electrical control systems Engineering & Standards is essential

  • Must have a strong understanding of the electrical software engineering principles

  • Effective communication and leadership abilities

  • Good interpersonal skills as the role will involve interaction with multidiscipline teams.

  • Have good foresight and strong analytical thinking skills that allows you to troubleshoot and avoid problems.

  • Meticulous and logical thinker who enjoys working with different systems in combination with computers.

  • Ability to draw and interpret Flow diagrams (Visio etc)

  • Be computer literate and able to use a wide range of software packages