Senior Electrical Engineer - Overhead Lines (Ohl)

Aecom; Ledston; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development opportunities

Flexible hybrid working model

Technical practice networks

AECOM University

Volunteering days

Job summary

AECOM is seeking an Senior OHL Engineer to join the Transmission & Distribution team in the UK. You will provide technical support for overhead line designs up to 400 kV, contributing to the National Grid Great Grid Upgrade and related programmes.

You will work on feasibility studies, design calculations, and deliverables, collaborating with clients and internal teams in a hybrid work environment. Strong UK project experience and communications skills are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent technical discipline (electrical/power).
• CEng Chartered Engineer with a recognized electrical engineering institution (e.g. IET).
• Experience delivering UK transmission projects for operators like National Grid preferred.
• Experience in overhead line engineering up to 400 kV.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support in delivering overhead line design on complex multi-discipline projects.
• Participate in large programmes like Great Grid Partnership projects.
• Assist in proposals outlining timelines, resources, budgets, and goals.
• Provide input throughout project implementation, planning, and public consultations.
• Conduct design activities: PLS-CADD modelling, line routing, sag-tension calculations, insulator/conductor selection.
• Support feasibility studies, conductor thermal ratings, and regulator compliance.
• Identify technically preferred solutions to present to clients.
• Produce and review engineering deliverables including reports, drawings and presentations.

Skills

Overhead line engineering

PLS-CADD modelling

Strong communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent

CEng Chartered Engineer

Tools

PLS-CADD

Structural analysis tools

Job description

Job description

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.

• Career development opportunities
• Flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle
• Technical practice networks
• AECOM University
• Volunteering days

Qualifications

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes, you could still be a perfect fit for this role.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• 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. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [e-mail]. At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.

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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. Please let us know using this email address [e-mail] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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