Electrical Design Team Lead

Position: Electrical Design Team Lead

Location: Birmingham, West Midlands (hybrid working available)

Salary: Not to be advertised (open for discussion)

Industry: Automation & Special Purpose Machines

PRS Engineering has engaged with a new client and a global manufacturer of Special Purpose Machines & specialist equipment. We are seeking a Team Leader/Manager to lead the technical Electrical division, so ideally you would have progressed your career from an electrical design or control panel design engineering nature. You may currently be a Senior or Lead Electrical Design Engineer looking to progress your career to the next stage?

About The Role

As Electrical Team Lead you will be responsible for providing leadership to the Electrical Engineering team, while ensuring optimum levels of service and satisfaction to customers through their innovative approach in developing packaging and processing machinery systems, utilising electrical engineering principles.

Key responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate work schedules for the team including resource planning and delegating tasks.
• Liaise with and establish excellent relationships with customers, colleagues, suppliers etc
• Manage design projects ensuring all milestones are met
• Develop electrical designs for primary products and new projects in collaboration with other departments
• Work closely with the Software Engineers to collaborate with the development of PLC and PC programs for systems or machines that require them
• Liaise with customers and Technical Support to find solutions to electrical problems of machines and/or systems and report finding to the team.
• Document to the required level for UKCA and CE compliance, the electrics of a machine developed.
• Travel to both customer and our sites to support and develop equipment and solutions when required.

Qualification and Experience:

• Minimum 8 to 10 years electrical engineering experience – special purpose machine design or manufacturing related field is desirable
• Knowledge of the Machinery directive 2006/42/EC
• Knowledge of the machinery safety regulations BS EN ISO 13849 & BS EN 60204-1:2018
• Experience of working with Allen Bradley and Siemens equipment
• Experience of UL requirements and certifying control panels to UL standards
• Experience of designing safety circuits to the required PL/SIL ratings
• Experience of using safety system verification tools and data (Sistema)
• Tertiary Qualifications in Electrical Engineering
• Previous experience of managing and building a team
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to problem solve and work autonomously

Why work with us?

• Egalitarian company structure which e.g. (empowers employees and nurtures leaders)
• International mobility opportunity - Opportunity to travel in your job and see the world.
• Professional and career development benefits and education investment
• Birthday leave.
• Volunteering opportunities
• Recognition program linked to health and lifestyle benefits.
• A company that truly values diversity