Senior Electrical Engineer – Substation Design Wide

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Are you ready to join a team of talented and innovative engineers within our UK Transmission & Distribution business and grow your career?

AECOM is experiencing a period of major growth within traditional and non-traditional end-markets including the connection of renewable generation to the transmission system to meet the government's 2030 targets and the connection of hyperscale data centres to the transmission system.

As such, we are recruiting for a Senior Engineer with experience in HV projects to join our T&D team. The T&D department delivers project management, design and owners engineer role for electrical power projects at transmission and distribution voltages across the UK and across the world. The focus of the team is large-scale grid infrastructure, grid connections, and private networks. The work can be varied and there will be a lot of opportunity to learn in the role.

A key project you will be working on is the UK National Grid's Great Grid Partnership; being part of a £9bn Enterprise partnership that will connect clean energy to homes and businesses across England and Wales. This is a great time to join us!

Here's what you'll do:

• Primary plant layouts for HV substations
• Equipment specifications for HV Plant and associated equipment
• Providing engineering design input to major infrastructure projects
• Owners' Engineer role on HV substation/Cable and OHL projects
• Providing HV design input to renewable energy projects e.g., Battery storage, Solar, Hydro and Wind generation
• Provide professional services to clients in UK/Ireland and overseas

At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Ready to push the limits of what's possible?

Here's what we're looking for:

• A Degree in Electrical Engineering
• Experience of working on High Voltage design projects
• Experience of working with major utilities or developers
• Experience as a designer or as project engineer
• Experience of developing specifications or detailed designs for substation control systems, transformers, GIS, and AIS switch gear.
• The ability to work flexibly across multiple projects
• Experience in Technical report writing
• Fluency in English
• Full driving license and access to a personal vehicle as site visits may be required as part of this role

• Experience of working on multi-discipline engineering projects
• Chartered accreditation or working toward status
• Consultancy experience
• Experience in reviewing review detailed designs & witnessing construction site activities.

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