# Electrical Design Engineer résumé example

Seven years of building-services electrical design, including a career break and the contract role that followed it.

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- Field: Engineering
- Career stage: Mid level
- Written for: United Kingdom
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## Sian Merriweather — Electrical Design Engineer

Electrical design engineer with seven years on LV distribution, lighting and fire-alarm design for healthcare and education buildings. Designed the electrical services for a £24m community diagnostic centre that energised on programme with no post-handover remedials. Registered IEng with the IET and working towards CEng.

### Experience

**Electrical Design Engineer**, Marbeck Building Services · March 2023 – present

Electrical lead on healthcare and education projects between £3m and £24m.

- Designed the LV distribution, lighting and fire-alarm systems for a £24m community diagnostic centre, energised on programme with no post-handover remedials.
- Took 190 kVA off the connected load of a secondary-school scheme through daylight-linked lighting and revised diversity, avoiding a DNO supply upgrade quoted at £310,000.
- Standardised the Dialux calculation templates used across the practice, taking a typical lighting scheme from three days to one.
- Mentors two graduates through the IET Monitored Professional Development Scheme; both passed their first-year review.

**Electrical Design Engineer (contract)**, Penhale Design Partnership · June 2022 – February 2023

Nine-month contract covering a maternity leave on the residential team.

- Delivered RIBA Stage 4 electrical design for three retirement-living blocks totalling 214 dwellings inside the contract term.
- Resolved 62 clashes between containment and structural steel in Revit before the first site release, avoiding an estimated four weeks of rework.

**Full-time family carer**, Career break · April 2021 – May 2022

Fourteen months of full-time care for a family member. IET membership and CPD record kept current, including the BS 7671 Amendment 2 update course.


**Electrical Engineer**, Calderstone M&E · September 2017 – March 2021

- Produced electrical designs for 40 primary-care refurbishments, each delivered inside a six-week survey-to-issue window.
- Rewrote the office cable-sizing spreadsheet to BS 7671 Amendment 1, correcting a volt-drop error that had undersized 11 circuits.
- Witnessed commissioning and testing on 18 distribution boards, clearing all certification for handover without a retest.

### Education

- BEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering · University of Bath · September 2013 – June 2017

### Skills

- **Design**: LV distribution, Lighting design, Fire alarm (BS 5839), Small power & containment, Load and diversity calculations, Earthing and bonding
- **Standards**: BS 7671, CIBSE Guides, HTM 06-01, BS 5266 emergency lighting, Part L compliance
- **Software**: Amtech ProDesign, Dialux evo, Revit MEP, AutoCAD, Trimble Nova