Electrical Design Engineer

The role

We’re looking for an Electrical Designer to play a key role in a highly skilled, customer‑first team supporting Cellnex delivery teams and customers. Operating in a fast‑moving, time‑constrained environment, you’ll be a trusted subject matter expert, providing clear technical guidance to internal teams and external suppliers alike. You’ll help set the standards that shape how electrical design work is delivered across our infrastructure, ensuring consistency, quality and confidence at every stage.

This is a hybrid position based at our welcoming offices in Leamington Spa, Reading or Manchester, with three days in the office and two days working from home.

We welcome applications from everyone. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know—we’re here to support you.

Key Responsibilities

• Review and validate technical drawings to ensure accuracy, buildability, and compliance with all relevant electrical and safety standards.
• Maintain and update internal technical libraries, including drawings, standards, specifications, and design templates.
• Support and follow Cellnex, Customer, and Site Provider design policies, acting as an advocate for best practice and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Provide expert technical advice on electrical design matters, keeping documentation current and supporting colleagues with ad‑hoc design and RF queries.
• Contribute technical content to bids and proposals, supporting both new and existing customer opportunities.
• Develop assessment methodologies for challenging or non‑standard sites, ensuring consistent design quality.
• Drive standardisation of design practices and workflows to increase efficiency, quality, and repeatability across the engineering function.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring, sharing knowledge and supporting junior team members and engineers as required.
• Support the development of new products, solutions, and service offerings, feeding into innovation and continuous improvement initiatives.

We Offer

• Step into a role that values your expertise and supports your career development.
• Be part of a collegiate team that supports a growth mindset.
• Amongst other benefits -
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• 10% target annual bonus
• Generous pension scheme 2:1 match
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity & Adoption leave offering; 26 weeks full basic pay for Maternity leave, followed by 13 weeks SMP – Enhanced leave is intended for all parents, whatever your family setup may be.
• Income protection & Life assurance
• Hybrid working model (3 days in the office, 2 days remote)
• Apply now and help shape the future of connectivity with Cellnex UK.

Experience

• Demonstrable experience in electrical design within telecoms, utilities, construction, industrial engineering, or similar
• Skilled in electrical design and drawing tools (e.g., AutoCAD, EPlan, or equivalent) with proven experience reviewing and producing technical drawings.
• NICEIC- related training or comparable electrical safety certification.
• Strong understanding of electrical installation standards, safety regulations, and compliance requirements, including relevant UK and industry codes. 18th Edition Wiring Regs.
• Knowledge of G78 and pylon installations (or willingness to grow this knowledge).
• Ability to interpret complex technical drawings and produce accurate, high‑quality design documentation.

Don’t worry if you don’t meet every requirement. We’re building a workplace where everyone can thrive. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn’t tick every box.

You’ll enjoy this role if

• You enjoy setting the standards we will follow in relation to Electrical Design as an organisation
• Working across a varying array of builds/projects with complex Electrical Design.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Cellnex Telecom is a leader in communication, technology and innovation and employs over 2000 people. We want everyone to feel valued by creating a culture of inclusion and belonging. We do this by empowering all our people to be authentic and share their ideas and experiences to ensure we have diversity of perspective. Only by doing this will we be a truly innovative forward-thinking organisation.

Who Are We?

Cellnex is Europe’s and the UK’s largest and fastest-growing independent owner and neutral operator of wireless telecoms infrastructure and is integral to the successful rollout of 5G. With the wireless infrastructure foundation that we deliver across rural and urban areas, Cellnex UK helps to connect everyone, everywhere - reducing digital inequality and supporting socio-economic growth. Our networks and solutions are built to be fit for now and the future so that the UK can prosper. We are a business built on commercial and technical innovation, ambition and sustainable growth.

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Agency Notice

Please note that agency support is not required for this role, and unsolicited candidate submissions will not be considered. All candidate referrals must be submitted through our Applicant Tracking System (ATS).