53 Electrical Design Engineer jobs in Staffordshire

Electrical Design Engineer
Burton-on-Trent
Up to 65k

Responsibilities:

• Create detailed electrical schematics, layouts, and wiring diagrams for control panels, ensuring compliance with customer specifications and industry standards.
• Specify and source components such as PLCs, relays, HMIs, and sensors to optimize system performance and cost-effectiveness.
• Develop and integrate control systems with broader industrial processes, ensuring seamless functionality.
• Produce high-quality design documentation, including BOMs (Bills of Materials), test procedures, and user manuals.
• Work closely with clients to interpret requirements, present design concepts, and incorporate feedback.
• Ensure designs meet relevant regulatory and safety standards; support testing and commissioning of systems when required.
• Identify opportunities to enhance design processes, reduce costs, and improve product reliability.
• Collaborate with production, proposals, and procurement teams to ensure smooth project delivery.

Essential experience:

• Proven experience in electrical design, control systems, or a similar engineering role within manufacturing or industrial automation.
• Proficient in electrical CAD software (e.g., AutoCAD Electrical (Preferred), EPLAN, or similar).
• Familiarity with PLC programming, SCADA systems, and industrial communication protocols is advantageous.
• Understanding of industry standards such as IEC, UL, or BS EN for electrical control panel design.
• Competency in Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel; experience with ERP systems is a plus.

Our client, a well-established engineering firm with a global footprint, is seeking an experienced Electrical Design Engineer to join their expanding R&D and production team. Specialising in bespoke, high-performance systems used in critical power testing environments, the company is known for its robust, technically advanced product range and engineering excellence.

Electrical Design Engineer

£40,000 - £50,000 + Pension + Benefits  

North Staffordshire

Ref: 24663

This is a hands-on design role working as part of a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team. You’ll lead the electrical specification and integration of complex control systems, working from customer requirements through to full production handover.

Electrical Design Engineer - The Role:

• Design detailed electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, and layout drawings
• Translate client requirements into compliant and cost-effective designs
• Select and specify components for performance, availability, and regulation
• Collaborate with mechanical, software, and systems teams to ensure full integration
• Support prototype development and supplier communication
• Produce documentation including BOMs, calculations, and compliance packs
• Support multiple projects in a fast-paced, engineering-led environment

Electrical Design Engineer - The Person:

• Solid background in electrical/control panel design
• Strong experience with AutoCAD and/or SolidWorks Electrical
• Skilled in electrical schematics, BOM structures, and component selection
• Familiarity with mechanical design and ability to read 3D models (preferred)
• Relevant engineering qualification (Degree or HND/HNC preferred but not essential)
• Comfortable working across several active projects with tight deadlines
• Clear communicator and team player with a proactive mindset

Located in Staffordshire, this role would be commutable from; Derby, Burton-upon-Trent, Lichfield, Swadlincote and Ashby-de-la-Zouch

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Electrical Design Engineer
Burton-on-Trent
Up to 65k

Responsibilities:

• Create detailed electrical schematics, layouts, and wiring diagrams for control panels, ensuring compliance with customer specifications and industry standards.
• Specify and source components such as PLCs, relays, HMIs, and sensors to optimize system performance and cost-effectiveness.
• Develop and integrate control systems with broader industrial processes, ensuring seamless functionality.
• Produce high-quality design documentation, including BOMs (Bills of Materials), test procedures, and user manuals.
• Work closely with clients to interpret requirements, present design concepts, and incorporate feedback.
• Ensure designs meet relevant regulatory and safety standards; support testing and commissioning of systems when required.
• Identify opportunities to enhance design processes, reduce costs, and improve product reliability.
• Collaborate with production, proposals, and procurement teams to ensure smooth project delivery.

Essential experience:

• Proven experience in electrical design, control systems, or a similar engineering role within manufacturing or industrial automation.
• Proficient in electrical CAD software (e.g., AutoCAD Electrical (Preferred), EPLAN, or similar).
• Familiarity with PLC programming, SCADA systems, and industrial communication protocols is advantageous.
• Understanding of industry standards such as IEC, UL, or BS EN for electrical control panel design.
• Competency in Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel; experience with ERP systems is a plus.

Are you ready to take your career to the next level with a role that combines innovation, technical expertise, and a chance to make a real impact? This is your opportunity to join a forward-thinking company as an Electrical Design Engineer. You’ll be part of a team that designs cutting-edge inspection and testing solutions for industries like food and beverage packaging, aerospace, and automotive. If you’re looking to work in a challenging yet rewarding environment where your skills will be valued and developed, this is the role for you.

What You Will Do:  

• Design complex electrical control systems for automation and measurement applications.
• Create and update detailed electrical and schematic drawings using AutoCAD LT, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
• Develop 3D layouts of electrical panels, allowing for accurate placement of components and adherence to current electrical regulations.
• Select appropriate components to meet electrical specifications, including current and voltage requirements.
• Collaborate with mechanical, software, and integration teams to deliver efficient and reliable solutions.
• Support service engineers in resolving on-site electrical issues and ensure compliance with safety regulations, including Safety PLC programming 

 What You Will Bring:  

• A relevant engineering qualification, such as an HNC or equivalent, ideally with an electrical bias.
• Proficiency in using AutoCAD LT or similar software to produce detailed electrical drawings.
• Experience in electrical design, system assembly, testing, and fault-finding, with at least two years in an engineering environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently or as part of a team.
  Knowledge of dimensional measurement principles, metrology systems, or stepper/servo control systems would be an advantage.

This role is essential to the company’s mission of delivering innovative and high-quality solutions to its clients across the globe. By joining this team, you’ll contribute to the design and development of systems that help industries maintain quality, reduce costs, and optimise processes.

In return you can expect:

• Competitive salary and overall benefits package.
• Good working hours
• Great team environment with a growing well supported SME

Location:

This role is based in Telford, a location that combines a thriving industrial base with a welcoming community atmosphere.

Interested?:

Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to advance your career as an Electrical Design Engineer. Apply now to take the first step towards joining a company that values your expertise and offers an exciting future!

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.
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We are currently looking for an Electrical Design Engineer to work for one of our clients in Burton on Trent

The client is a market-leading manufacturer of specialist equipment to a range of industry sectors including heavy engineering and aerospace.

The role will involve the design and engineering of control and safety management systems required as part of the client’s products

The main responsibilities will include the following:-

• Electrical design and development of a range of projects, starting from the initial design, working to customer specifications', preparing designs for manufacture and seeing the product through to completion.
li>Design and develop new products as required to meet customers specification and to see them through to completion
• Specification, component selection, design calculations as appropriate to requirements
• Design and develop enhancements to the existing product range.
• Support technical sales and manufacturing and test departments where required
• The production of technical documentation as required, including drawings and bills of materials etc
• Ensure products meet mandatory legislation and customer specific legislation.

Applicants must be experienced Electrical Design Engineers with a proven track record in any if not all of the following: -

• Electrical design
• Production of electric schematic diagrams
• Electrical control design
• Design experience of electrical control systems / control panels and wiring schematics
• Knowledge of electrical design

Applications will be considered from a range of experience, from newly qualified to more experienced senior level although all candidates must be qualified to a minimum of HNC level although a degree qualification is preferred.  

It is essential that applicants have experience of EPlan design software or similar.

Global Recruitment Services Ltd are a Recruitment Business based in the Midlands

For more information and to apply please email your CV to us.  

• Lead the creation and upkeep of detailed electrical schematics, wiring diagrams and 3D panel layouts in AutoCAD LT
• Specify and validate components (PLCs, safety relays, drives, motors, power supplies) to meet current‑ and voltage‑load demands, driving cost, quality and standardisation
• Own BOM accuracy: enter and maintain parts and assemblies in Sage MRP, supporting on‑time purchasing and build
• Provide support to production and field‑service teams—diagnosing build or on‑site faults, implementing fixes and offering design based changes to mitigate issues
• Champion design governance: manage documentation, drive continuous‑improvement projects and mentor junior engineers in best practice

• Previous experience working within electrical design as part of an engineering team ideally from a manufacturing/machinery environment
• Experience of using AutoCAD LT (or similar design engineering CAD packages)
• Must have strong communication skills with the ability to work directly with clients to take a design brief through to final assembly
• Driving License (ideally) or local to the area

We are currently recruiting for a Mechanical Design Engineer in the Severn Trent region.

You will report directly to the Principal Engineer and your role will be to provide superior quality Engineering Design services to allow the company to minimise risks and maximise profits on turnkey and engineering services contracts. You will co-ordinate the design and produce design documents and drawings taking due account of health and safety requirements, specifications and standards pertaining to the contract.

Key responsibilities will include:
Produce design layouts which are cost effective, meet the requirements of the specification and which can be constructed and commissioned effectively.
Ensure that standard practices are utilised wherever possible.
Provide estimates and feedback for proposals department.
Work to procedures and processes to ensure the continuing development of the department.
Monitor and review the procedures and processes.
Write, update and monitor efficient procedures to aid the smooth running of the department.
Ensure co-ordination of designs with all other disciplines internal and external in order to ensure that the design processes carried out on the contract are co-ordinated for the benefit of the contract as a whole.
To work within a culture where satisfying the customer is recognised as the key to achieving other objectives, and that customers include everyone receiving benefit from our processes, whether end users or other departments within the company.
Ensure designs take account of environmental issues.
Ensure that design takes full regard of all health and safety requirements.

About The Candidate
Essential:
Degree in Mechanical Engineering and have extensive practical mechanical design experience (ideally 8 - 10 years if Senior level) in a similar environment
Understand the principles of water and sewage treatment.
Ability to rationalise designs and produce economic plant layouts.
A flexible mind, with the ability to assimilate large amounts of different data at one time.
Ability to present technical proposals clearly, confidently and convincingly.
Computer literacy.

What we offer
Packages include -
A competitive salary
Hybrid Working (Jobs needs dependent)
Car/car allowance (Jobs needs dependent)
25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)
Contribution Pension scheme
Life Assurance
Health Insurance
Private Medical Insurance
And many more benefits including - cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, Kids Pass etc