Lead Electrical Engineer Earthing

Lead Electrical Engineer - Earthing

Hybrid working with one of the following as your primary site:
Derby, Manchester or Warrington

We are recruiting a Lead Electrical Engineer - Earthing

The Electrical Systems team is responsible for delivering safe, resilient and technically robust electrical infrastructure across the power station. Earthing and lightning protection systems are fundamental to ensuring plant safety, regulatory compliance and system integrity. This includes the design, verification and substantiation of systems that protect both people and equipment, ensuring a consistent and compliant approach across the station.

About the Role:

As a Lead Electrical Engineer - Earthing, you will provide technical expertise across the design and development lifecycle of earthing and lightning protection systems. You will lead system architecture, sub system design, equipment specification and the selection of components necessary to realise the final verified design of the SMR power station.

You will work across engineering teams electrical, civil, systems, safety and project functions to ensure earthing systems are integrated effectively, compliant with UK and international standards and aligned with overall plant architecture.

You will act as a responsible designer and intelligent customer, ensuring quality, consistency and technical rigour throughout the project lifecycle.

You will support design reviews, risk assessments, strategic planning, and technical governance activities. You may also mentor less experienced engineers and support engagement with suppliers, customers, regulators and external stakeholders.

We’ll Need You To:

Provide technical leadership for earthing and lightning protection systems

Assess and substantiate designs to ensure compliance with UK and international standards

Develop system architecture, specifications, design documentation and component selections

Support designers by offering technical guidance and design review input

Lead or contribute to technical reviews, ensuring quality is maintained through project gates

Identify risks and develop mitigations during system design and integration

Support capacity planning, long term strategy and team development

Work across power station engineering teams to deliver standardised, commoditised approaches to system design

Represent electrical engineering in working groups, supplier engagements, customer discussions and regulatory dialogue

Manage or oversee supply chain partners delivering work packages

Coach and mentor less experienced engineers across the electrical discipline

Key Skills Required:

We know there’s no such thing as the ‘perfect’ candidate. If you meet around 75% of the criteria below, we’d love to hear from you:

Experience across the electrical system lifecycle in a regulated industry (nuclear preferred but not essential)

Strong knowledge and experience in earthing and lightning protection system design, assessment, verification, installation, commissioning and maintenance

Knowledge of relevant earthing and lightning protection codes and standards for the UK and Europe

Experience developing earthing and lightning protection systems in nuclear or high integrity environments

Knowledge of systems engineering methodologies, including MBSE tools such as Capella, DOORS or Polarion

Proven ability to manage contract partners delivering technical work packages

Understanding of commercial availability and cost considerations for materials

Practical field experience in earthing or lightning protection design or installation

Strong communication and presentation skills, including the ability to present complex
information to technical and non technical audiences

Degree in electrical engineering or related discipline (or equivalent relevant experience)

We welcome applicants from a wide range of regulated sectors including nuclear, defence, aerospace, rail and energy.

Salary and Package:

The salary band for this will be between £60,000-£78,750 dependent on the skills, values and knowledge you bring. There may be some flexibility with the starting salary in exceptional cases, and, in due course, the role may be developed further.

Benefits include:

Bonus - Performance related target opportunity 12.5%
Benefits Cash Allowance £2,200 per annum for a bespoke package
Pension - 12% employer and 6% employee contributions
Holidays - 28 days (+ public holidays) with the ability to buy or sell up to 4 days
Private Medical Insurance - BUPA single cover
Life Assurance - 6x pensionable pay
Home Office Support - £250 one off payment for new starters

Due to the safety regulations within the nuclear industry, applicants will be required to participate in additional screening. These are:

Obtaining Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance
Satisfactory completion of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
Satisfactory completion of a basic financial probity check