Senior Civil Project Engineer

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For this role, we require successful applicants to be based from one of our Scottish locations and you'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in the office - Perth, Glasgow, Inverness or Aberdeen.

£58,100 - £87,100 + car/allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances, and wellbeing.

Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available.

As part of our Net Zero journey, the Onshore AC Project Engineering team is seeking a Senior Civil Project Engineer to join our new Customer Connections team. You’ll play a key role in delivering a high volume of customer‑driven connection projects at pace, applying your civil engineering expertise to champion standardised designs, modular construction principles and innovative delivery techniques that support fast, efficient rollout across our high‑voltage transmission network.

• Provide expert Civil engineering leadership, enabling the rapid, consistent delivery of multiple Customer Connection projects through standardised and efficient design approaches.
• Support and mentor early‑career engineers, building capability across the discipline and promoting a culture of learning, innovation and continuous improvement.
• Lead the development and assurance of Civil designs, driving modern design and construction techniques, repeatable layouts and streamlined construction methods to deliver quality at pace.
• Contribute to senior technical reviews and approvals, offering clear, pragmatic input to Project Engineers and external designers to maintain quality, safety and programme certainty.
• Build strong relationships with supply chain partners and delivery teams, ensuring Civil designs are practical, compliant, and aligned to accelerated construction and a smooth, standardised handover process.

• Demonstrable experience in transmission development/design/specification and be comfortable to technically assess issues and/or problems and critically assess a range of technical solutions.
• A keen focus on design standardisation and driving continuous improvements in business processes, procedures and systems and a passion for developing Pipelines Engineers.
• Understanding the technical requirements for design, planning, operation and development of the transmission network and aspects requiring coordination with other project disciplines.
• Effective communication skills, and you must be able to communicate often complex technical issues clearly and concisely to facilitate decision making by senior management.
• Achieved, or actively working towards, Chartered Engineering Status.

SSE’s purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plan sees us investing £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030.

SSEN Transmission owns and operates the electricity transmission network across the north of Scotland. We transport energy from where it is generated to where it is needed, ensuring a safe and reliable electricity supply for the communities we serve. But that's not all – we're upgrading the grid to deliver cleaner, homegrown energy for the future and building a network for net zero to create secure power for generations to come.

Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest‑free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. We are dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.