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# Protection Design Engineer

- **Company:** AVD Appoint Ltd
- **Location:** West Sussex, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £50,000.0 - £65,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** AutoCAD, SolidWorks (CAD)
- **Published:** September 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2960346652-2

## About the Role

* At least 5 years' experience as a Protection Design Engineer, Senior Switchgear Design Engineer or similar designing electrical circuits
 * Expereince with the following: Circuit breakers, MCCB, MTAG, and REF
 * Experience with an Electrical Design package (Ideally AutoCAD Electrical)

Desirable Requirements:

 * Experience with Switchgear, Power Systems or Power Distribution
 * Experience with Low Voltage (LV) up to 750 Volts
 * Solidworks

## Description

In this role as a Protection Design Engineer, you will be working in a multi-disciplined team of 9 engineers and you will be responsible for full life cycle design from inception to completion. This may include drawing up concepts to support the sales team with tenders. Once a project is won, you will interpret the customer requirements, then design the electrical circuits that fulfil what they need, create the wiring diagrams for manufacturing, deal with the BOM's (Bill of Materials) and forward across any information to purchasing who will procure the necessary components and equipment based on your designs. There will be an opportunity to get involved in the Mechanical Design of enclosures for the products should this appeal, but if not, you will be liaising with other engineers who can carry out this task for your projects.