Principal Engineer

Snc-Lavalin; Middleton; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Linxon is seeking a Principal Engineer for Middleton, London and Chelmsford to lead HV substation projects with turnkey delivery. You will coordinate the design team, manage budgets, and provide forecasts to complete estimates, contributing to on-schedule project performance.

The role requires extensive HV substation experience for utilities, knowledge of transmission/distribution practices, and excellent communication across stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or master’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
• Extensive experience in HV substation for utilities.
• Knowledge of Transmission or Distribution practices (400kV to 11 kV).
• Fluency in English – both written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the design team across all disciplines.
• Liaise with the Project Director on engineering budgets and provide forecast cost to complete estimates.
• Manage the programme and interface with planning engineers for design.
• Coordinate with the Principal Design Engineer for design submission and reviews.
• Support risk and opportunity assessments and implementation of actions.
• Shape and deliver solutions with customers to drive improvements.

Skills

HV substation engineering

Electrical engineering

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Job DescriptionJob Title : Principal EngineerLocation: Middleton, London and ChelmsfordWe 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 spokenOther Position-Specific CharacteristicsWorking location: office during design phase, regular presence (minimum 60%) on site during construction.About LinxonShaping 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.Building the infrastructure to power the world - we are Linxon! - YouTube#LinxonWorker TypeEmployeeJob TypeRegularAt Linxon, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.