Design Engineer

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career; with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

At M Group Telecom, we’re enabling and enhancing telecom networks, playing a lead role in the delivery of our tech enabled future.

We deliver full network cycle services for fixed, private and mobile operators.

This role will be within our Private networks where we find the best technology, manage assets and refresh systems. With 24/7 network operations, we keep things running smoothly, while operating comprehensive network repair and maintenance to keep everything in top shape.

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

In this role, you’ll work with SME and larger customers to design and deliver technical solutions, drawing on your experience in consultancy or solution design environments. You’ll engage with both customers and internal stakeholders, using your strong presentation and interpersonal skills to influence decisions and communicate effectively. Operating as a self-starter, you’ll manage competing pressures while producing solution designs that are both commercially viable and deliverable. You’ll apply best practice design methodologies and leverage your understanding of Telco business processes and frameworks such as eTOM or ITIL to support the delivery of complex solutions.

You’ll maintain a strong working knowledge of technologies across customer estates and telecommunications environments, ensuring you can clearly articulate the business benefits of the solution portfolio. Your responsibilities will also include developing High Level Designs (HLD), Low Level Designs (LLD), and Bills of Materials (BoM), as well as contributing to accurate project costing. Additionally, you’ll use tools such as the Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, and AutoCAD to support design and documentation activities.

This role can be based anywhere in the UK, you'll be assigned a contractual location, but you'll be working from home most of the time, with ad hoc team meetings in one of our locations across the UK.

What you’ll bring

• You’ll have mission-critical, Black-Start compliant, low latency network and services using SDH / PDH and MPLS / IP technology over a mix of fibre, microwave radio and 3rd party “leased line” products including Openreach EAD and OSA & latency sub-rate services including V & X data, Voice Frequency and Optical Teleprotection (IEEE C37.94)
• You’ll have IP Network including good understanding of components of a Layer 2 & Layer 3 network, design of WAN, LAN and services
• You’ll know Fibre systems including fibre characteristics, electrical utility fibre deployment, ground deploy and 3rd party fibre along with Telecoms installation in electrical substation environment
• You’ll have experience of designing DC power supply and battery systems
• You’ll know Copper xDSL products including services via BT WBMC and SHDSL over copper “pilot” cables
• Synchronisation networks (PRC, SSU, SEC, frequency, NTP and PTP)
• Satellite services – E.g. BGAN and T-SAT services

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include.

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers;

• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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