Senior HV Electrical Engineering Leader

ARUP; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit Share

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Accident insurance

Income protection

Flexible benefits

Hybrid working

Job summary

ARUP is seeking a chartered electrical engineer to lead and deliver strategic electrical design across UK Great Grid Partnership projects. The role combines technical direction, governance, and delivery oversight of HV electrical systems, ensuring integration with civil and other disciplines.

You will mentor multidisciplinary teams, drive design assurance, and engage with senior stakeholders to support bids, project delivery, and continuous improvement within a hybrid working model across the UK.

Qualifications

• Chartered Electrical Engineer (CEng IET) or equivalent, with extensive experience in major electricity transmission.
• Proven leadership of multidisciplinary electrical design teams, including design assurance and stakeholder engagement.
• Strong technical expertise across HV substation primary plant, protection and control, SCADA, earthing, auxiliary systems and commissioning.
• Experience coordinating with civil, environmental, geotechnical, and structural disciplines.
• Excellent communication and governance experience; ability to present to senior governance levels.

Responsibilities

• Provide organisation-wide technical leadership.
• Define and uphold best practice design methodologies and GGP technical governance standards, including integration with National Grid assurance processes.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, providing insight on constructability, engineering risk, programme readiness, and cross-discipline technical dependencies.
• Drive consistency and technical excellence across bundles, ensuring alignment with GGP Charter behaviours.
• Lead technical reviews, challenge assumptions, and provide authoritative signoff across complex electrical design packages.
• Oversee risk management processes for electrical design, ensuring issues and lessons learned are captured, escalated, and actioned.
• Mentor, develop, and guide electrical engineers and interdisciplinary design teams, supporting capability uplift and succession planning.

Skills

HV substation design

Protection & control

SCADA

Earthing

OHL interfaces

Stakeholder management

Education

CEng IET or equivalent (Chartered Electrical Engineer)

Tools

CCMCAP

CDEGs

ETAP

Powerfactory

Job description

ARUP is seeking a chartered electrical engineer to lead and deliver strategic electrical design across UK Great Grid Partnership projects. The role combines technical direction, governance, and delivery oversight of HV electrical systems, ensuring integration with civil and other disciplines.

You will mentor multidisciplinary teams, drive design assurance, and engage with senior stakeholders to support bids, project delivery, and continuous improvement within a hybrid working model across the UK.