Senior Design Engineer (Cable System)
Hybrid
Leeds, United Kingdom
Freelance
23-03-2025
Job Specifications
Stowmarket/ Leeds - (Hybrid, Office, Site)
Permanent - Full Time
Competitive Salary + Car/ Car Allowance + Flexible Benefits
Summary:
Freedom Professional Services is seeking an experienced Senior Design Engineer (Cable System) to join our growing team. This role will involve working on a range of complex and challenging engineering projects that contribute to the UK’s Net Zero targets. Our projects span the complete energy system, including generation, transmission, distribution, and storage, supporting load-end consumers in manufacturing, processing, data, and recycling.
The successful candidate will have a proven track record in teamwork, career achievement, and high-quality project execution. You should be able to leverage professional networks for insights, new opportunities, and third-party collaborations.
Key Deliverables:
Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to integrate cabling designs into broader project frameworks.
Undertake cable system design, studies, and calculations in accordance with BSEN/IEC/National Grid/DNO/ENA C55/5 standards.
Conduct feasibility and detailed design studies for cable routing, considering planning, traffic management, environmental factors, and client requirements.
Lead work in your area, ensuring timely, accurate, and high-quality deliverables aligned with Freedom’s quality standards.
Provide technical support and peer review of colleagues’ work, ensuring design accuracy and compliance.
Support business development activities by generating sales leads, engaging in sales origination, and providing technical insights.
Manage project resources, budgets, and timelines, ensuring efficient delivery and risk mitigation.
Stay updated with industry standards, maintaining a high degree of independence in completing engineering design work.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of company quality systems and best practices.
What We’re Looking For:
We require a highly skilled and motivated senior engineer with strong technical, ethical, social, and management competencies. You should possess excellent budgetary and project management skills, along with commercial awareness of design and construction contract forms such as NEC. Experience working within contract conditions is essential.
The company actively supports chartership in engineering, and senior engineers are expected to be chartered or working towards this accreditation.
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
Degree in Engineering (Electrical preferred).
Chartered Engineer (or actively working towards it).
Strong knowledge of cable system design.
Significant industry experience aligned with the key responsibilities of the role.
In-depth understanding of CDM 2015 Regulations & ESQCR.
Full UK Driving Licence.
Experience in 11kV to 400kV detailed design.
Proficiency in AutoCAD.
Experience using cable system design software such as CRATER & CYMCAP.
Desirable Qualifications & Experience:
Knowledge of AutoCAD Civil 3D.
CSCS (or similar – SHEA Power) Card Holder.
Health & Safety qualification (NEBOSH, IOSH, or similar).
Benefits:
We continually evolve our benefits to attract and retain top talent. Some of what we offer includes:
Competitive salary
Car or Car allowance
25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
Pension with a leading provider and employer contribution
Sick Pay
Personal Wellbeing and Volunteer Days
Private Medical Insurance
Free 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (including counselling and legal advice)
Flexible benefits (e.g., Dental Insurance, Gym Memberships, Give As You Earn, Travel Insurance, Tax-Free Bikes)
Personal development programme
Next Steps
As a business, we’re on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation.
We’ll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.
About Us
Freedom are part of the NG Bailey Group, one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training.
You will be working as part of a team where we are committed to creating a culture where we treat each other fairly and with respect, recognising everyone as an individual.
Progression is something we value and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be.
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About the Company
The Freedom Beginning Founded in 1996 with an entrepreneurial management buyout from Yorkshire Electricity, Freedom has grown significantly with over 600 direct employees and twenty offices in the UK and Western Europe. In April 2018 we were acquired by NG Bailey Group (www.ngbailey.com), one of the UK’s largest independent engineering, IT and facilities services businesses. The knowledge and relationships we have developed over the past 20 years combined with NG Bailey’s innovative approach to large engineering and servic... Know more
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