Job title:                    Design Engineer

Based from:             Gloucester/Home with travel

Region covered:      UK & Europe

Reports to:               Design Manager

Salary:                       £40,000 per annum DOE + Company Car

The Role

As a Design Engineer you will be responsible for designing and costing complex life safety and electronic security systems including, but not limited to, fire detection, voice alarm, disabled refuge, CCTV, access control, intercom, PA, structured cabling and intruder systems. You will also be responsible for reviewing client/tender specification documents and drawings, liaising with suppliers, using CAD software for the detailed design, costing the projects, and drafting proposal documents. You will be working collaboratively with the wider Sales Team, clients, consultants, suppliers and contractors, in order to ensure internal & external deadlines are met and that projects are accurately designed & costed. 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assisting the Design Management with sales enquiries and tenders
• Designing any number of life safety and security systems plus any other integrated building systems as specified within the Company's scope of work based upon customer requirements, specifications, drawings and current standards
• Preparing proposals, quotations and tender documents for designed systems and ensuring that assigned tenders are prepared on time and in line with company standards
• Assessing the security and fire risk factors influencing the design, to either enhance the design accordingly or to communicate back to the client
• Ensuring that the content of all quotations and system design specifications are compatible with the requirements of all applicable technical and regulatory standards (i.e., EN, BS, HTM) and BAFE/NSI Codes of Practice
• Ensuring adherence to all Company policies – including those for quality, health & safety, and the management of false alarms
• Producing CAD design and construction drawings in line with company policies and procedures and ensuring handovers and deadlines are achieved
• Traveling to client or supplier sites within the UK and Europe

No job description can be entirely comprehensive, and the jobholder will be expected to adapt and carry out such other duties as may be required from time to time, on the understanding that they will be within the individual's remit and capability, and consistent with the status and responsibilities of the role within the business.

Person Specification

Essential

• Fire & security systems engineering and/or design experience
• Good verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to design relevant systems, prepare cost sheets and proposal documents
• Able to form good working relationships with colleagues, customers, and outside bodies
• Able to understand and disseminate specifications and technical drawings
• Excellent organisational, interpersonal, problem solving and time management skills

Desirable

• Proficient in using AutoCAD packages
• Conversant with and up to date in respect of new technologies, technical standards, regulatory standards, that are relevant to the design process
• Knowledge of applicable quality systems (ISO9001, SSQS101, FSQS121 etc.)
• Clear understanding of construction industry and tender related works
• Previous experience within a goal-driven/result-oriented environment

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

Working Conditions

This role is a hybrid role, based from home and from our Gloucester office. When in the office, you will be working in an open-plan environment with multi-screen computer use. Due to the nature of this position, you will be required to travel to various client and supplier sites across the UK and Europe. This could result in time spent staying away if required to meet the business' needs.

Group Compliance

As part of the companies compliance to The Health & Safety at Work Etc Act 1974, ISO9001 for Quality, ISO14001 for Environmental and ISO27001 for Information Technology, there are several key objectives that are issued each year upon management review that we expect all staff to work towards in order for the company to meet these objectives and include but are not limited to:

• Compliance to all legislative and British Standard requirements
• Compliance to associated accreditation bodies schemes from NSI, BAFE, LPCB, FIA and others as required
• Maximise customer satisfaction with the services provided by GBE Converge
• Working to reduce, renew and recycle any wate on and off our sites including our offices
• Protect the environment and ensure use of toxic materials is avoided where possible
• Work to best safe practice and ensure actions do not cause harm unto themselves or others
• Employees will not tamper with any issued PPE or plant machinery that it may cause harm unto themselves or others
• Ensure all minimum training requirement are met in compliance with the relevant ISO standards
• Ensure that any Information Technology ‘incidents' are effectively reported and resolved in a timely fashion (internally or externally)
• Maintain clear desk and screen at all times.
• Compliance to ensure no deliberate breaches in security information and/ or systems