Associate Director/Principal Engineer - Overhead Lines (OHL)

AECOM; Leeds; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global infrastructure consulting firm is seeking an experienced engineer to join its Transmission & Distribution team in Leeds. The role involves providing technical expertise, delivering overhead line design for transmission projects, and ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards. Candidates should hold a bachelor's degree in engineering and have experience in the energy sector. AECOM offers a flexible hybrid working model and various career development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working model

Career development opportunities

Volunteering days

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent technical discipline.
• Experience delivering projects for transmission system operators.
• Project experience in overhead line engineering up to 400kV.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise in bids and proposals.
• Deliver overhead line design on multi-discipline projects.
• Ensure work meets safety and quality standards.

Skills

Technical expertise in bids and proposals

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

CEng Chartered Engineer qualification

Tools

PLS-CADD

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Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

Are you ready to join a team of talented engineers and shape the future of energy infrastructure?

The Transmission & Distribution (T&D) Engineering team provides a range of services from the initial concept through Power Systems Analysis, Cabling, Substations, Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure, System Balancing and Compensation, Protection Systems, SCADA, Communications, Converter Station Design, HVDC Systems and Interconnectors including overseas links.

AECOM and its joint venture partner have been appointed as design and consenting service partners for the UK National Grid's Great Grid Partnership. Part of a £9bn Enterprise partnership that will connect clean energy to homes and businesses across England and Wales by 2030. The joint venture's scope of work will include delivering the consents for individual schemes within the program. These consents will be through Development Consent Orders (DCOs), which entail technical and environmental design and preparation, as well as stakeholder engagement on the plans. This is one of the key projects you will have the opportunity to work on as part of this role!

Here's what you'll do:

You will join us as a key member of our Transmission & Distribution team dedicated to engaging with our clients and directly contributing to the successful delivery of ground breaking and technically challenging OHL design projects encompassing overhead transmission lines up to 400KV.

• You'll provide technical expertise in bids and proposals and represent the Company in client meetings as an senior member of the OHL team, applying your experience and expertise to a range of exciting and interesting projects.
• You will provide technical engineering expertise in delivering overhead line design on complex multi-discipline projects. This encompasses PLS-CADD modelling, meticulous line routing, comprehensive structural analysis and loading trees, formulation of design criteria, precise sag-tension calculations, insulator/conductor blowout, swing angle, damper system recommendations, strategic structural spotting, thorough clearance reports, and judicious conductor and insulator selection.
• Take responsibility for assigned project scope, technical delivery, and client engagement for overhead line works within projects.
• Provide expert technical evaluations and offer problem-solving solutions to different team members. Contribute to written proposals outlining all project details, including the timeline, resources, budget, objectives, and goals.
• Undertake feasibility studies, performing conductor thermal ratings, and ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. Conduct studies to identify a technically preferred solution/layout to present to the client.
• Ensure your work meets safety, health, environmental, sustainability, and quality standards.
• Ensure adherence to AECOM and client design management processes while leading project and client meetings as needed.
• Represent AECOM with professionalism and integrity, adhering to ethical standards and the Code of Conduct.
• Checking and review engineering deliverables such as complex designs, reports, proposals, presentations, and drawing packages.
• Perform internal reviews and quality checks of engineering drawings and calculations that fall within your scope of work.

Enjoy the Perks.

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.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what's possible?

Here's what we're looking for:

• A bachelor's degree in engineering or an equivalent technical discipline
• Ideally be professionally qualified CEng Chartered Engineer with a recognised electrical engineering institution (e.g. the IET).
• Experience delivering projects for transmission system operators
• Project experience in overhead line engineering up to 400kV.
• LCDAE & CDAE certifications are advantageous.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

AECOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes applications from all backgrounds and abilities. We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role.