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Job Description

Job Title: Secondary CDAE Engineer

Location: Birmingham/Glasgow, United Kingdom

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The Secondary CDAE Engineer will lead and work in a skilled team on a wide range of National Grid, SSEN & SPEN substation projects. The position will focus on the project and tender engineering and its interfaces and scope of work involved in HV – substation design and construction projects, within the Linxon EPC to meet customer needs, legislative demands and standards.

What will you do?

Key Areas Of Responsibility (KARs)

• Overall responsible for managing & leading all secondary engineering activities from project start till the As-Built stage with strict adherence to Project Specifications & Linxon standards including QA/QC, HSSE & Integrity.
• Instruct, supervise & coordinate with other engineering team within Linxon (local & remote), internal & external partners, sub-suppliers, secondary engineers & civil engineers.
• Review of P&C design packages as per NG/ET/SR188
• Completion of the relevant section of the DID
• Submitting completed Design Packages for Design Compliance Audit
• Ensuring all design changes are managed in accordance with the design change management process defined as per NG
• Attending Design Review meetings (DRMs) and Hazard review meetings (HRMs) as required
• Review and certify the design packages and issue the DCAAR
• Secondary design but not limited to SLD, AC & DC distribution systems, battery and battery chargers sizing, voltage drop, cable sizing, signal lists, setting calculation, interface lists, cable block diagrams, multicore & fiber optic cable schedules, and cables core sheets, etc.
• Coordinate with suppliers and reviewing their deliverables. Check remote end requirements and provide input to supplier.
• Be familiar with Substation control system and its architecture
• Participate in technical discussions with customers and suppliers, handle site queries and take necessary actions up to as-built documentation
• Secondary engineering budget, schedule, forecast, risk & change management activities.
• Secondary engineer of large and complex EHV/HV Air & Gas Insulated Substation (AIS & GIS) projects in UK.

Technical solutions

• Provide technical solution for substations comprising SLD, KLD, technical information, and associated detail drawings and documents by established applicable standards, processes and customer specifications through allocated resources remotely.
• Prepare Design Intent Document (DID) / Functional Design Specification (FDS) based on supplier inputs
• RFQs but not limited to P&C, metering and AC/DC systems
• Reviewing supplier deliverables based on project specifications and standards.
• Support site team during execution stage.
• Provide technical calculations and schedules for all equipment for projects or tenders.
• Prepare bill of quantities (PEMS), deviations & clarifications for technical solutions.
• Review of Suppliers design and Factory acceptance test plans.
• Provide technical support and to develop tender scheme options and related project scope documents.
• Availability to travel 25 % of the time (domestic/international travel) working in an office and on a construction site

Experience Required

• Bachelor or Master’s in electrical engineering or equivalent
• Extensive years of substation engineering experience in utilities. Knowledge of required NG, SSEN & SPEN requirements and standards.

Competencies/ Skills Required

• Contractor Design approval engineer (CDAE) P&C certification from National Grid.
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or working towards it
• Result orientated team player with a proactive approach.
• Excellent in communication, to interact with external and internal parties at all levels in a multi-cultural environment.
• Expert knowledge in Substation secondary design engineering, AC & DC system calculation, compilation of signal list, setting calculation, interface engineering and preparing cable schedules
• Strong in MS Office, knowledge in MicroStation and AutoCAD is required.
• Fluency in English – both written and spoken

About Linxon

Shaping energy solutions to empower sustainable connectivity.

We combine Hitachi Energy’s deep technological knowledge and Atkins Realis’s project management expertise to create a company dedicated to substations – we are Linxon.

Linxon’s vision is to deliver the best market offering for turnkey substation projects through world-class power technologies and delivering the highest level of competence in managing infrastructure projects.

As a leading engineering company, we help our customers with turnkey substation solutions in the field of power transmission, renewable energy and transportation.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to be part of a new company as it evolves and help shape it for the future. If you like new challenges, have an entrepreneurial spirit and are interested in working with other motivated professionals with expertise in the Substations EPC business, then this is the new opportunity for you.

To know more about the Linxon please click on the link below.

Building the infrastructure to power the world – we are Linxon! – YouTube

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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