Senior Overhead Line Design Engineer - Grid Upgrade

OHL design activities including routing, profiling, and design calculations

Producing and reviewing drawings, models, and digital design outputs using relevant CAD and specialist tools

Coordinating with multidisciplinary teams and external stakeholders to deliver integrated design solutions

Supporting the management of project deliverables to programme, budget, and quality requirements

Providing technical guidance and mentoring to junior engineers

Contributing to continuous improvement, innovation, and digital design approaches within the team

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective - in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas. You will have the opportunity to do socially useful work that has meaning - to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

Is this role right for you?

We are interested in candidates with demonstrated experience future.

Roles are available across multiple UK office locations.

Watch this short clip to discover how Arup are shaping a better world and how you could be a part of it! The Opportunity We are seeking a Senior Overhead Line (OHL) Design Engineer to join our growing transmission and distribution team. This role is suited to engineers with proven experience in overhead line design who are ready to take on increased responsibility in project delivery and technical leadership.

You will lead and deliver OHL design packages across a range of voltage levels (typically 33kV-400kV+), working within multidisciplinary teams on major infrastructure projects including the Great Grid Partnership. You will play a key role in shaping technical solutions, supporting junior engineers, and ensuring high-quality, compliant design outputs.

• Leading the preparation and checking of feasibility studies, design reports, and technical documentation
• Delivering and overseeing detailed, in overhead line design and a strong understanding of transmission and distribution projects

• OHL design principles across EHV systems (33kV-400kV+)
• Tools such as PLS-CADD and other industry-standard design software
• Sag & tension calculations, line profiling, and routing optimisation
• Structural concepts relating to towers, foundations, and line components
• Engineering design delivery within consultancy or contractor environments
• Technical checking and assurance of design outputs

• The ability to take ownership of technical deliverables and contribute to project leadership
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage clients and stakeholders
• A collaborative approach and willingness to support team development

• A degree (or equivalent) in a relevant engineering discipline
• Chartered or working towards within 12 months
• Experience in overhead line design within transmission and distribution
• Progression towards professional qualification (e.g. working towards or recently achieved chartership)
• Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• The ability to work independently while contributing to a wider team
• Experience in consultancy or major infrastructure projects is highly desirable

At Arup, we care about each member's success, so we can grow together. Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive - through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup's legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

We also provide Private Medical Insurance, Life Assurance, Accident Insurance and Income Protection cover. In addition, you'll have access to flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and individual needs.

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.…