Overview

Join to apply for the Senior Primary Design Engineer role at NG Bailey.

This is a permanent role. Competitive salary plus car/car allowance and flexible benefits. The role involves working on complex engineering projects to help deliver the UK’s Net Zero targets across the energy system, from generation, transmission, distribution, and storage to load-end consumers in manufacturing, processing, data, and recycling. This is a home-based role in Scotland with hybrid working and travel to Freedom/NG Bailey offices and client sites across the UK as required.

Responsibilities

• Promote safety through design and actively participate in hazard review meetings.
• Perform site surveys and collaborate with site teams as required.
• Develop concept and preliminary designs based on tender information.
• Generate and review general arrangement drawings, substation layouts, single-line diagrams, and related documentation.
• Prepare and refine technical specifications for designs and equipment.
• Carry out design calculations to support plant design, including:
  • Switchroom blast pressure calculations
  • Busbar sizing and short-circuit calculations
  • Cable thermal and mechanical force calculations
  • Cable sizing
  • Switchroom heating and ventilation calculations
  • Small power and lighting calculations
  • CT/VT sizing
  • Compound lightning protection calculations
  • Switchroom lighting calculations
  • Lightning protection design calculations
• Ensure timely delivery, effective requirements management, and a “right-first-time” approach.
• Achieve key performance indicators for design quality and on-time delivery.
• Comply with project documentation, employer requirements, and industry standards.

What We’re Looking For

Senior engineers are expected to bring technical, ethical, social, and management competence to every job. Essential skills include:

• Strong budgetary and project management capabilities.
• Good commercial understanding of design and construction contract forms such as NEC.
• Experience of working within contract conditions.

We actively encourage professional registration and chartership. Senior engineers are expected to be chartered or close to achieving chartership.

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree in Engineering (Electrical preferred).
• Chartered Status (preferred): Chartered Engineer (CEng) with a professional body such as IET or IEE.
• Strong experience in EHV/HV substation plant design, with a proven track record of delivering complex projects within the power sector.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Health & Safety qualification (e.g., NEBOSH, IOSH) desirable but not essential.

Benefits

• 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 24/7/365 Employee Assistance Programme (including counselling sessions and legal advice).
• Flexible benefits including dental insurance, gym memberships, Give As You Earn, travel insurance, and tax-free bikes.
• Personal development programme.

Next Steps

As a business, we’re committed to an inclusive culture. We’ll outline the recruitment process with plenty of notice. If you require 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, a leading independent engineering and services business in the UK. We operate across sectors in the building and infrastructure industry and value progression with a defined development path and regular reviews, training, and ongoing support.