At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead innovative rail projects focusing on low voltage systems and ensure quality designs.
- Company: Join AECOM, a global leader in infrastructure consulting, making a positive impact worldwide.
- Benefits: Enjoy hybrid work options, competitive salary, and diverse benefits tailored for your needs.
- Other info: Diversity is celebrated here; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and abilities.
- Why this job: Be part of a team that delivers sustainable legacies and transforms communities through engineering.
- Qualifications: Degree in Electrical Engineering and experience in railway Electrification & Power design required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.
Our team has an established track record of successfully delivering major multidisciplinary rail projects. We are now looking to enhance and grow this team with a Principal Rail Low Voltage Design Engineer. You will have delivered rail projects to client’s satisfaction at the appropriate standard, ensuring accuracy of drawings and calculations, ensuring designs are economic, constructable and appropriate, and that the relevant codes and standards are complied with.
You will take responsibility for the technical and commercial delivery of key rail projects, with a particular focus on low voltage (LV) systems, including Points Heating, Lighting, and Signalling Power. The team provides design, assessment, inspection, construction support and management services across a wide range of rail infrastructure projects.
Provide Expertise: Be responsible for the technical and commercial delivery of projects, with a specific remit to develop AECOM’s rail LV and substation capabilities within the Electrification and Power (E&P) team.
Collaborate: Receive brief from Project Manager and cascade through team members.
Ensure Quality: Develop concept and detailed designs including calculations reports and specifications. Check CAD drawings and design documentation produced by team members and liaise with designers and CAD Technicians. Prepare and check the technical reports.
Anticipate: Support development of project specifications for construction. Attend site during construction phase if necessary to ensure construction is in accordance with specifications/drawings. You will have a very good understanding of Health and Safety including CDM.
Qualifications:
- BSc, BEng or MEng degree in Electrical Engineering
- Chartered Engineer (or working towards) and member of a professional institution
- Proven track record in railway Electrification & Power design and delivery as a CRE or Lead Design Engineer
- Experience in the use of Network Rail, London Underground, Railway Group Standards as well as the relevant British Standards and Eurocodes.
We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
