Senior Electrical Engineer - Overhead Lines (OHL)

MEPJOBS UK; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Hybrid work model

AECOM University

Volunteering days

Job summary

AECOM in Birmingham, UK invites a Senior OHL Engineer to join the Transmission & Distribution team. You will provide technical leadership on overhead line designs up to 400kV, supporting complex UK projects such as the National Grid partnership.

The role includes feasibility studies, client proposals, and QA of engineering deliverables. You should have a strong background in electrical power engineering, plus Chartered status and experience delivering UK transmission projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent.
• CEng chartered engineer with a recognised electrical institution.
• Experience delivering UK transmission projects to operator standards.
• Overhead line engineering experience up to 400kV preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support delivering overhead line design on multi-discipline projects.
• Contribute to large programmes like UK National Grid projects.
• Assist in proposals with timelines, resources, budgets, objectives.
• Support project implementation, planning, and public consultations.
• Lead design activities: PLS-CADD modelling, line routing, and sag-tension calculations.
• Assess insulation/conductor selection, damper systems, and clearance reports.
• Support feasibility studies and ensure compliance with standards.
• Identify technically preferred solutions for client presentations.
• Prepare engineering deliverables and conduct internal QA on drawings.

Skills

Overhead line engineering

PLS-CADD modelling

Structural analysis

Communication skills

UK project experience

Education

BEng/MSc in Electrical/Power Engineering

CEng Chartered Engineer

Tools

PLS-CADD

AutoCAD

MS Office

Job 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.

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

Are you ready to join a team of talented engineers and shape the future of energy infrastructure? Join us and continue to grow your career! In this crucial role, you will be a key member of our Transmission & Distribution team dedicated to leading and engaging with our clients to deliver technically challenging OHL design projects. Come and join us and work directly on the UK's most groundbreaking T&D project - National Grid's Great Grid Upgrade. 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. Come and join us, grow your career and contribute to the delivery of this fantastic project!

Start Here. Grow Here.

Here’s What You’ll Do

Your primary focus in the role of Senior OHL Engineer is to provide project technical support and responsible for design of transmission projects. This team will work on various projects encompassing overhead transmission lines up to 400kV.

• Provide technical support in delivering overhead line design on complex multi-discipline projects.
• Have the opportunity to be involved in large programmes of work like GGP projects.
• Support in writing proposals and outlining all project details, including the timeline, resources, budget, objectives, and goals.
• Provide technical support and input throughout the project implementation, statutory planning, and participation in public consultation events.
• Be responsible for design activities related to the overhead line. 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.
• Support in 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.
• Originate and check engineering deliverables such as complex designs, reports, proposals, presentations, and drawing packages.
• Perform internal quality checks of engineering drawings and calculations.

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

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent technical discipline, electrical engineering or power engineering.
• Professionally qualified CEng Chartered Engineer with a recognized electrical engineering institution (e.g. the IET).
• Ideally have experience delivering UK projects for transmission system operators such as National Grid, SSE and SPT in line with each operator’s standards.
• Project experience in overhead line engineering (ideally up to 400kV).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities.

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

State/Province: BirminghamBusiness Group: DCSLegal Entity: AECOM Infrastructure and Environment UK LimitedBusiness Line: EnergyWork Location Model: HybridOperating Group: InternationalPrimary Location: UK - Birmingham - Colmore Plaza