Principal Engineer

Linxon; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Linxon is seeking an experienced Principal Engineer to lead HV substation design for turnkey GIS/AIS projects. You will be embedded in the project team, coordinating with Linxon’s execution and engineering groups across multiple sites including Middleton and on-site construction phases.

The role requires a strong background in HV substations (utilities) and excellent communication skills to work with diverse external and internal teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master's in electrical engineering or equivalent.
• Extensive experience in HV substation for utilities.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the design team across all disciplines.
• Forecast cost to complete estimates and justify changes in expenditure.
• Manage the programme and interface with planning engineers.
• Coordinate with the Principal Design Engineer for design submissions and reviews.
• Forecasts for completion and resource planning.
• Support project risk and opportunity assessments and actions.
• Contribute to subcontracting/purchase orders and manage suppliers.
• Support commercial aspects of project engineering and customer instructions.
• Collaborate with customers to shape and deliver improvements.

Skills

HV Substations

Transmission & Distribution

Communication

Teamwork

Time Management

English Fluency

Education

Bachelor/Master in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Job Title: Principal Engineer

Location: Middleton, London and Chelmsford

We are looking to secure the services of an experienced Principal Engineer with a proven track record in substation engineering and project expertise relating to turnkey HV GIS/AIS substations. In this role, you will be embedded into the project team and work in close coordination with the Linxon execution team and Linxon engineering.

What will you do?

Key Areas Of Responsibility (KARs)

• Coordinate the design team across all disciplines.
• Liaise with the Project Director on engineering budgets and provide forecast cost to complete estimates and associated justification to changes in expenditure.
• Manage the programme and interface with the planning engineers for design.
• Coordinate with the Principal Design Engineer (Lead Engineer) for design submission, design reviews and hazard reviews.
• Coordinate with the Principal Design Engineer (Lead Engineer) forecasts for completion and resource planning.
• Support the Project Director in overall projects' risk and opportunity assessments and implementation of resulting actions.
• Contribute to the creation of subcontracts/Purchase Orders and manage the subcontractors/suppliers jointly with other involved functions.
• Support the Commercial Manager in contractual and commercial aspects of project engineering (including Customer's'Instruction, Early Warning Notice, Compensation Event ).
• Work with customers to shape and deliver solutions, seeking feedback and innovating with the customer to drive and deliver improvements.

Experience Required

• Bachelor or master's'in electrical engineering or equivalent.
• Extensive experience in HV substation for utilities.

Competencies/ Skills Required

• Knowledge of Transmission or Distribution practices (400kV to 11 kV). Knowledge of required NG standards will be considered as a plus.
• Excellent in communication, able to interact with external and internal parties at all levels in a multi-cultural environment.
• Result orientated team player with a proactive approach.
• Capable of working to tight time scales.
• Fluency in English – both written and spoken

Other Position-Specific Characteristics

• Working location: office during design phase, regular presence (minimum 60%) on site during construction.

About Linxon

Shaping energy solutions to empower sustainable connectivity.

We combine Hitachi Energy's deep technological knowledge and Atkins Realis's project management expertise to create a company dedicated to substations – we are Linxon. Linxon's vision is to deliver the best market offering for turnkey substation projects through world‑class power technologies and delivering the highest level of competence in managing infrastructure projects.

As a leading engineering company, we help our customers with turnkey substation solutions in the field of power transmission, renewable energy and transportation.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to be part of a new company as it evolves and to help shape it for the future. If you like new challenges, have an entrepreneurial spirit and are interested in working with other motivated professionals with expertise in the Substations EPC business, then this is the new opportunity for you.

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