Role
LV Switchgear Specialist/Commissioning Engineer – Contract Rate: Circa £850–£950 per day, dependent on experience and location
Contract: Project-based, initially October–November 2026
Location: UK-wide – multiple engineers required across England, Scotland & Wales
Hours: Out-of-hours/night works, typically circa 8/9pm–1/2am
Description
MDE are supporting a nationwide programme of planned electrical works and are looking to speak with experienced LV Switchgear Specialists/Commissioning Engineers who can provide specialist technical support during critical outage works.
The requirement is for experienced commissioning/service engineers capable of independently diagnosing and rectifying LV switchgear faults in a live project environment where restoration of supply is time-critical.
Key responsibilities include:
- Attending planned out-of-hours LV works as the specialist commissioning/fault-finding engineer
- Fault-finding on LV switchgear, ACBs and MCCBs
- Diagnosing breakers that fail to close, reset or re-energise
- Intrusive investigation of breaker mechanisms where required
- Checking spring-charging mechanisms, trip coils, closing coils, interlocks and control supplies
- Investigating protection trips and associated control/protection circuits
- Undertaking appropriate repairs or remedial works where safe and within competency
- Testing and proving equipment prior to restoration of supply
- Supporting the site team with the safe restoration of mains power
- Identifying where further upstream isolation or DNO intervention is required
- Troubleshooting temporary generation and associated controls/protection where experienced
- Potentially assisting with temporary generator connections to LV switchboards
We're particularly interested in engineers from backgrounds including:
- LV Switchgear Commissioning
- Switchgear Service Engineering
- Electrical Commissioning
- LV Commissioning
- Critical Power
- Power Generation
- DNO/IDNO/ICP
- Industrial Power Systems
Experience with ACBs/MCCBs, protection relays, trip/closing circuits, spring-charging mechanisms, LV switchboards and reactive fault-finding will be particularly relevant.
Generator experience would be a significant advantage, particularly engineers comfortable with temporary generation, ATS/control systems, protection trips and generator fault-finding.
The programme includes sites throughout the UK.
We're therefore looking to build a geographically distributed team and are particularly interested in engineers based across the Northwest, Northeast, Midlands, Southeast/South, Southwest and Scotland.
Accommodation can be provided where required for appropriate site allocations.