About us
Ormazabal is the leading provider of personalized solutions to electrical utilities, emphasizing electrical engineering and renewable energy systems applications based on its technology. We encourage the development of the electrical sector towards the challenges of future energy needs. In cooperation with the world’s leading local, regional, and global companies in the electrical sector, we are committed to providing personal safety, network reliability, energy efficiency, and sustainability by designing and manufacturing solutions to digitise the electrical grid. Our highly qualified and focused team of innovation-motivated professionals have developed our products and solutions for over a century-long consolidated history by establishing close relationships with our customers to achieve mutual long‑term benefits.
Job Title: Test and Commissioning Engineer
Salary: £45,000-65,000 plus monthly bonus and other benefits
Role Type: Full time.
Key Responsibilities
- To complete in‑house testing as scheduled.
- Develop in‑house testing standards, procedure and test documentation.
- Produce and deliver in‑house training material with regards to testing of HV switchgear and protection and control schemes.
- Provide on‑the‑job training and guidance to junior engineers and trainees.
- Provide support to other departments such as engineering, production and service when required (technical expertise in commissioning P&C schemes).
- Lead and organise customer acceptance tests, in conjunction with the projects lead engineer.
- Be responsible for ensuring high‑quality products are vigorously tested.
- Work alongside the engineering department to develop project specific requirements and test schedules.
- Work with our key customers and DNO frameworks to ensure all testing requirements are met.
- Checking of test documentations and final approval of the quality documentation prior to issue to the customer.
Required Skills
- Background in electrical switchgear (essential)
- Experience in the fundamentals of electrical switchgear, its operation, maintenance and fault finding (33KV MV Switchgear) (essential)
- Understanding and interpretation of protection and control schematics for HV equipment (essential)
- Demonstrable experience in commissioning HV switchgear, protection and control schemes (essential)
- Knowledge of modern standards such as IEC 61850 and be up‑to‑date on technical advances such as centralized protection and control (essential)
- 10+ years of experience within the electrical industry ideally focusing on commissioning of HV Switchgear, Protection and Control Schemes (desirable)
- Formal engineering qualification BEng within electrical engineering discipline. NVQ level 3 or above considered depending on experience.
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work effectively on your own or as part of a team
- Proactive and ability to make decisions quickly
- Results‑oriented and ability to work at pace.
- Ability to meet deadlines and work well under pressure
- IT skills including familiarity with Microsoft suite programs
- Management experience with demonstrable skills of leading and building a team.
- Have knowledge of industry best practices and be able to develop processes and procedures to ensure testing is undertaken correctly and safely.
Benefits
- Early finishes on Fridays
- 24 days holiday plus 8 standard UK bank holidays
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Wellbeing committee and wellbeing initiatives
- Subsidised team activities
- Enhanced paternity/maternity pay
- Bereavement leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Sick pay
Inclusion, equity, and non‑discrimination are fundamental pillars of our culture. Our selection processes are conducted following transparency criteria, irrespective of gender, racial origin, religion, political ideology, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability. We embrace and acknowledge the uniqueness of each of our future collaborators and value diversity in all its expressions.
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