OHL Design Engineers

Overview

Why join us? We’re all about providing fantastic opportunities to continue your engineering career in an industry which provides opportunity for growth and development as we work towards our Net-Zero targets and develop our electricity networks to meet our current and future requirements.

We invest in all our employees, giving our newer Engineers time to develop skills and support those with experience to achieve professional accreditation to incorporated engineer or chartered engineer.

Our offices are global. We have opportunities to work in the UK from the North East, Midlands and London, plus we have offices in Australia and New Zealand. Our working spaces are ones you’ll love. Bright, vibrant, modern and a little quirky too…there’s not many places you get to collaborate with colleagues over a quick game of darts whilst the coffee is brewing.

Our salaries are competitive and as you progress, so do they. Plus, we offer so many other perks and benefits from paid for day trips and work nights out, paid time off for your well-being, paid volunteer time to help spread the word on engineering to the next generation, flexible working hours, private healthcare …oh and the day off for your birthday….there’s

so much more we want to tell you about, we just can’t fit it all in.

We understand the value of a diverse workforce too. It’s the wide range of employee backgrounds and personalities that make us such an innovative team. We all have different experiences to draw upon and bring ideas to the table, that’s one of the many things that makes us special.

Whilst duties vary dependent upon your level of experience, the below gives an indication of what you can expect to be involved in working within the OHL team at Groundline.

Purpose:

To create and check overhead line designs, focusing on delivery, quality and problem solving in order for Groundline to deliver. To monitor hours spent, and ensure deliverables and completed in budget and within the require timeframe.

Role Delivery

• Use industry standard software to produce, and check overhead line designs, based upon the output required.
• Utilise the company’s software resources to deliver detailed and accurate technical documentation with consideration of areas such as electrical clearances, geology, structural modifications and upgrades, maintenance, construction and temporary works.
• Produce and check design inputs and outputs in line with statutory, CDM and industry specific standards while identifying and implementing current best practice.
• Work with the Project Manager to facilitate the delivery of a project.
• Understand and utilise, technical notes and original drawings considering CDM and the customers technical knowledge
• Identify and review amendments to technical drawings and documentation and also ensuring lessons learnt from previous projects and tasks are implemented.
• Technically consider risks and constraints in project handovers by asking for and imparting key data, for example technical constraints, budgets, timescales, risks (internal and external), including the companies reputation

• Production of industry specific construction material (Essential)
• Use of Power Line Systems software (Essential)
• Project team member experience of delivering successfully to intricate time bound, budgetary parameters (Essential)
• Autonomous working to deadlines, raising concerns and challenges in a timely and appropriate manner (Essential)
• Experience of working within power line/telecoms/utilities sectors (Essential)

• Engineering Degree (Civil/Mechanical) (Essential)
• Working towards chartership (Desired)

If you feel you could be the next valuable addition to our team, then please do submit your CV now. Go on, we’re waiting to hear from you!

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