Junior Project Designer

Junior Project Designer

Reporting to: Lead Design Engineer

Location: Potters Bar / St Neots

Salary Range: £31,337 – £44,892 (Depending on Experience)

Job Purpose:

• The post holder is part of Design team producing designs, quotations and work packs
• The Junior Project Designer will produce simple quotations and work packs
• The Junior Project Designer is required to apply the design policy, and meet all Electricity Guaranteed Standards and safety standards
• The post holder has the following Financial Authorisation Limit (FAL)

– Approval of quotations up to the value of £24k

Principal Accountabilities:

• Applies the design and pricing policies in the preparation of designs, quotations and work packs
• Gains information from customers and their agents, including on-site meetings, to support the design process
• Passes information to customers, including on-site meetings, when requested to do so
• Manages work load effectively and under own initiative but with guidance from senior team members
• Produces work packs satisfying all safety requirements for approval and issue
• Assists Trainee Project Designers during their training and development
• Produces designs, quotations and work packs to agreed timescales
• The person carrying out this role must have excellent communications skills, be able to prioritise workload and be able to work to tight deadlines with minimum supervision

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

• Qualified to City & Guilds 232 in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• Demonstrable experience and application of technical skills
• Knowledge of the operation of the electricity distribution network
• Working knowledge of design tools and systems
• Good understanding of the UK Power Networks electrical network and how design affects its operation
• Knowledge of the design and quotation tools and systems used in Connections
• A belief in providing good customer service by accepting accountability for understanding and meeting the customer’s needs
• Full UK driving licence required

Nature and Scope:

The Connections directorate designs and undertakes new and altered electricity connections within the UK Power Networks licence area. The Connections design team is responsible for producing designs and quotations to meet customer enquiries. All works are customer driven and the design team have to manage their time to meet customer expectations but also comply with Licence Conditions, Guaranteed Standards and Safety Standards.

The Junior Project Designer manages a portfolio of simple designs, typically LV extensions and LV and service diversions, providing quotations for customers and producing work packs for delivery teams.

The role requires access to secondary substations to carry out surveys and installation of monitoring equipment.

Although in a planning environment close liaison with delivery teams is required to ensure safe and effective schemes are produced. The Junior Project Designer also liaises with customers to ensure a high standard of customer service is delivered.

Key Competencies:

• It will be important to work under own initiative, as well as be a good team player with the ability to contribute to targets and support team success
• Management of priorities, risk mitigation and strong negotiation skills to be deployed both within UK Power Networks and external with major, blue chip clients
• Written communication, influencing and inter personal skills in order to effectively communicate and report at all levels
• Ability to establish strong formal and informal relationships with colleagues across UK Power Networks
• Co-operative and team based approach so as to achieve overall business objectives
• Practical and results-orientated approach demonstrated by virtue of actions undertaken, by means of moving others to action by planning, motivating, organising and controlling tasks and deliverables in a complex fast-moving environment of regulatory change
• Able to work on own initiative and able to demonstrate intelligent balanced judgements in all matters
• Excellent organisation skills including the ability to plan, manage time and other resources efficiently
• Ability to work with stakeholders to resolve problems, as well as ensuring that unresolved problems are brought to the attention of managers
• Able to provide excellent service to customers to anticipate and meet their needs and to see things from their point of view
• Able to work co-operatively with others to achieve shared goals and optimise the contribution of all members of a team. The team can be the work unit, the wider senior management team, a project team or teams with partners outside the organisation
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to analyse data and situations, to see cause and effect, to make objective judgements and understand commercial implications
• Ability to make links and comparisons between situations that are not obviously related and to identify key issues in complex data, using creative and lateral thinking to come up with new ideas or ways of doing things
• Able to think and act ahead of time to take advantage of opportunities for innovation and improvement and to address problems
• Able to work in a pressured environment as part of a highly focused team
• Pragmatic approach to problem solving and a flexible and adaptable approach to work
• Enthusiastic and strong customer focus, without losing sight of safety and security of supply