Designs and delivers electrical engineering projects of moderate complexity, including specifications, drawings, site investigations, technical analyses, and project documentation. Manages scopes, schedules, budgets, and coordination with multidisciplinary teams. Oversees project elements, mentors junior staff, reviews work, supports stakeholders, and applies sustainability and professional standards across process, water treatment, energy, and infrastructure projects.
Join Te-Tech Process Solutions and help shape the delivery of complex, high-impact projects.
The Role
The Role
As an Electrical Design Engineer you'll be applying advanced engineering principles and practices to design, manage, and deliver projects of moderate complexity. This position requires independent judgment, technical expertise, and leadership skills to oversee scopes, schedules, and budgets while ensuring compliance with professional standards and sustainability principles. The role includes mentoring junior staff, coordinating multidisciplinary teams, and maintaining effective communication with stakeholders.
What You’ll Be Doing
1) GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
- Applies broad knowledge of engineering principles and practices within a specific discipline.
- Independently evaluates, selects, and adapts standard techniques, procedures, and criteria for conventional projects with few complex features.
- Contributes to multidisciplinary teams and acquires general knowledge of related fields.
- Demonstrates sound judgment in adapting methods for non-routine aspects of assignments.
- Acknowledges and applies concepts of sustainability to engineering projects.
2) TECHNICAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Designs complete projects, systems, components, or processes.
- Prepares comprehensive specifications, drawings, and project documentation.
- Designs and conducts site investigations; analyzes and interprets survey data.
- Formulates and solves engineering problems using standard and adapted methods.
- Oversees moderate projects or contributes to specific parts of large-scale projects.
3) SCHEDULE, PROJECT & TASK MANAGEMENT
- Applies leadership and teamwork skills to plan, execute, and manage scopes, schedules, and budgets.
- Contributes to project meetings and presents specific aspects of engineering assignments.
- Develops an awareness of change management practices and commercial impact of decisions, incorporating this into design activities.
4) MANAGEMENT, SUPERVISION & GUIDANCE
- Assigns tasks to and directs junior members of project team (technical and non-technical staff).
- Interprets, organizes, executes, and coordinates detailed aspects of engineering work.
- Mentors direct reports and less experienced staff by providing guidance, explaining professional responsibilities, and reviewing work outputs.
- Receives general direction on key objectives and guidance on unconventional or complex problems when necessary.
5) CORE VALUES
- Upholds and promotes the Company’s Core Values – Care, Trust, Respect and Sustainability.
What We’re Looking For
Essential
- Higher Education (NVQ+)
Desirable
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related discipline (Master’s preferred).
- Membership of a Professional Engineering Institution.
- CSCS Card or SHEA Water Qualification.
- EUSR Water Hygiene Qualification.
Experience
- Typically 3–5 years of relevant engineering experience, including project design and coordination.
Why Join Trant?
At Trant Engineering and Te-Tech Process Solutions, we deliver complex, high-value engineering and construction projects across the UK. From process and water treatment to energy infrastructure upgrades, we play a key role in delivering and protecting critical national infrastructure – shaping the systems that communities and industries rely on every day.
Our teams design and deliver full EPC solutions, combining technical excellence with practical, hands-on delivery. We offer end-to-end capabilities – from concept and design through to manufacturing, construction and commissioning utilising a continually evolving in-house expertise. This means you’ll work on projects that are varied, challenging and genuinely impactful.
Our multi-disciplinary teams bring together specialists in civil, mechanical, electrical, process, instrumentation, and control & automation engineering, alongside our in-house manufacturing of control panels, MCCs, PLCs and SCADA systems. With over 1,000 people and a strong, growing pipeline of work, it’s an exciting time to join Trant. We are committed to helping our people succeed through our Career Development Association, providing structured support, mentoring and clear pathways to help you reach your full potential.
Whether you’re starting out or looking to take your next career step, Trant offers the chance to develop, progress and make a real difference.
Our teams design and deliver full EPC solutions, combining technical excellence with practical, hands-on delivery. We offer end-to-end capabilities – from concept and design through to manufacturing, construction and commissioning utilising a continually evolving in-house expertise. This means you’ll work on projects that are varied, challenging and genuinely impactful.
Our multi-disciplinary teams bring together specialists in civil, mechanical, electrical, process, instrumentation, and control & automation engineering, alongside our in-house manufacturing of control panels, MCCs, PLCs and SCADA systems. With over 1,000 people and a strong, growing pipeline of work, it’s an exciting time to join Trant. We are committed to helping our people succeed through our Career Development Association, providing structured support, mentoring and clear pathways to help you reach your full potential.
Whether you’re starting out or looking to take your next career step, Trant offers the chance to develop, progress and make a real difference.
Our company benefits package includes.
- Competitive salary.
- Company car or car allowance (some levels).
- Mentored support within our ‘Career Development Association’, to work towards chartership.
- 24 days holiday (increasing with service) + 8 bank holidays.
- Options to buy additional holiday via salary sacrifice.
- Company Pension Scheme.
- Flexible working based on a ‘core hours’ system.
- 1 x Professional Membership paid annually.
- Hybrid working.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Free onsite parking.
- Bike to Work Scheme.
- Discretionary annual bonus.
Ready to take the next step in your career? Apply now and be part of something bigger.
About
Trant Engineering has a long history of engineering and construction excellence, delivering high quality EPC engineering and construction services throughout the UK and overseas. We successfully design & deliver complex engineering projects in sectors such as Process & Water, Energy, Defence, Oil & Gas and Nuclear. We offer clients a range of services including design, manufacturing, installation, construction and commissioning. Through collaboration with our strategic technology partners and enhancing our in-house design and manufacturing capability, we have aligned the company to be at the forefront of engineering excellence.Our in-house multi-disciplinary services include civil, process, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control and automation, supplemented by the design and manufacture of Control Panels, MCC’s, PLC’s, SCADA and automation systems. We have over 1000 employees and with a healthy forward order book with a targeted turnover of £150m this year, it is an exciting time to join a business where you can reach your full potential and develop your career.
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