At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead innovative substation design projects and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking energy consultancy focused on high voltage infrastructure.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible hybrid working, career growth, and well-being programmes.
- Other info: Mentorship opportunities available to help you grow your career.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the energy sector while developing your skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in HV design and client engagement within the energy sector.
The predicted salary is between 55000 - 70000 £ per year.
Are you ready to join a team of talented and innovative engineers within our UK Transmission & Distribution business and grow your career?
Our Transmission & Distribution team delivers HV design for electrical power projects at transmission and distribution voltage levels.
The focus of this role is primary plant design for large-scale infrastructure, grid connections, and private networks at voltage levels normally between 132 k V to 400 k V.
Typical projects include feasibility, optioneering, FEED, detailed design, and design assurance on existing or new substations and other infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Lead substation technical discussions with the client and internal multi‑disciplinary teams to establish scopes, define interfacing and ensure delivery.
- Lead the technical delivery with engineering teams by agreeing approach, supporting scope understanding, monitoring progress and quality checking of deliverables prior to issuing to the client.
- Utilise knowledge of substation project/asset life‑cycle from a design perspective to successfully deliver client projects.
- Liaise with the project management team to produce resourcing forecasts and programmes.
- Demonstrate commercial awareness to carry out proposal development, monitor/manage project costs and enable opportunity identification.
- Build client relationships, understanding client requirements and perspectives, building trust and adopting a client‑orientated project delivery mindset.
- Drive the safety in design ethos within projects.
- Mentor and develop more junior staff to build team capability and capacity over the medium and long term.
Qualifications
- Previous experience with consultancy, contractor, or utility in the energy sector.
- Client experience with National Grid, SHET, SSE, SPT or any other transmission utility or developer in UK or Ireland.
- Experience designing HV infrastructure at concept and FEED and detailed design stages.
- Understanding of electrical AC HV plant infrastructure and equipment both AIS and GIS.
- Working knowledge of National Grid standards and specifications.
- Proposal/Bid development experience, including leading multi‑discipline proposals to completion.
- Experience of design & site construction review; the role is primary plant focused, but knowledge and understanding of secondary system design will be advantageous.
- Experience with control systems, transformers, HVDC systems, interconnectors, HV protection & control knowledge and experience would be advantageous.
- Ideally CDAE / LCDAE approval.
Benefits
Flexible hybrid working model, career development opportunities and our well‑being programs.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously.
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