Lead Civil Substation Designer (CDAE)

Seeka; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Seeka as a Lead Civil Substation Designer, playing a vital role in designing civil solutions for substation projects. You'll collaborate with diverse teams to ensure safe and efficient project execution while mentoring junior engineers. Seeka offers a supportive environment, competitive salary, and a range of benefits that enhance work-life balance.

Benefits

Matched or contributory pension scheme

Online GP service

Employee assistance programme

My Rewards portal with retail discounts

Life assurance

Cycle to work scheme

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave

Company car and fuel card

Private health care

Discretionary bonus scheme

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Experience as Contractor Design Approval Engineer (CDAE) or equivalent role.
• Professional experience using design and analysis software.
• Relevant Electricity Transmission & Distribution industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Shape civil design solutions for substation projects from feasibility to commissioning.
• Collaborate with project teams, providing constructability advice.
• Lead various civil engineering projects ensuring compliance with client standards.

Skills

Earthworks modelling

3D modelling

Challenging information

Tools

STAAD Pro

Tekla Tedds

Autodesk Revit

AutoCAD

Civil 3D

Tekla Structural Designer

Job description

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

At M Group Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.

We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.

Electricity Transmission

We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity.

What will you be doing?

We're looking for a Lead Civil Substation Designer to join our Transmission Networks team. You must have experience in CDAE for National Grid projects.

You will play a key role in shaping civil design solutions for substation projects from feasibility to commissioning. You'll collaborate with project teams, designers, and subcontractors to ensure safe and efficient execution, providing constructability advice and overseeing temporary works designs.

Engage in bid development, tendering, and innovation projects, working alongside the Design Manager and Design Lead to drive success. Lead various civil engineering projects, from foundations and drainage to GIS buildings and steel structures. Ensure high-quality reports, calculations, and drawings, aligning with Client and national standards (BS/Eurocodes/ENA).

Act as a Contractor Design Approval Engineer (CDAE), mentor junior team members, and contribute to process improvements. If you're passionate about engineering excellence and delivering innovative solutions, this is your chance to make an impact. Apply now!

What you’ll bring

• Previous experience acting as Contractor Design Approval Engineer (CDAE) or Equivalent Role.
• Professional experience in design and analysis software using STAAD Pro, Tekla Tedds, Autodesk Revit & AutoCAD & Civil 3D, and Tekla Structural Designer.
• Ability to challenge information presented and be prepared for the versatile nature of Civil Substation Design.
• Relevant Electricity Transmission & Distribution Industry Experience.
• Experience in earthworks modelling and creating 3D models of a site to calculate cut and fill volumes and prepare for construction.

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers;

• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice, our salary sacrifice EV/Hybrid car scheme
• Company van/vehicle and fuel card for business use
• Private health care and health care cash plan
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note:

Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.