Senior OHL Design Engineer - East Midlands

BALFOUR BEATTY; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior OHL Design Engineer to join their dynamic Power T&D team in Derby. This role involves leading the design delivery of overhead line projects, ensuring compliance with industry standards and customer requirements. The successful candidate will be responsible for producing key deliverables, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. With a flexible working policy and a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to significant infrastructure projects that power communities and businesses across the UK.

Qualifications

• Degree level education in Civil, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
• Extensive experience as an OHL Design Engineer.
• Understanding of UK and European design codes.

Responsibilities

• Lead design delivery of OHL projects up to 400kV.
• Produce OHL deliverables and ensure design compliance.
• Train and mentor junior colleagues.

Skills

OHL Design

Civil Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

PLS CADD

Microsoft Office

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering

Degree in Electrical Engineering

Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

PLS CADD

Microsoft Office

Job description

About the role

Balfour Beatty is currently recruiting a Senior OHL Design Engineer to join the Power T&D team in Derby.

We need your help designing over 800km of secured OHL new build and refurb projects. That’s nearly 14,000km of conductor, 24,000 insulator sets, 5000 foundations and whopping 38,000 tonnes of new steel.

We are open to both full time and part time candidates (including job share), and offer a flexible working policy.

What you'll be doing

Your job will be to perform and lead the design delivery of OHL projects up to 400kV, from tendering to project handover. As well as delivering projects in compliance with industry standards, customer requirements and Balfour Beatty Governance.

Day to day you can expect to:

- Act as the OHL Lead Designer, responsible for delivery of tender deliverables and the OHL scopes of projects, including the coordination of relevant resources.

- Act as a Senior Design Engineer

- Produce OHL deliverables for projects such as Sag Ten, Profiling, Clearance Reports, Mechanical Utilisation Reports, Short Circuit Loading, construction phase design support (i.e. backstays, CSS, Spacer trolley checks, scaffold checks, EMF studies, sag adjuster setting calculations)

- Identify and ensure design compliance with all relevant standards, legislations, customer requirements, and contract specifications throughout the project life cycle.

- Review tender and contract documentation and establish OHL scope of works.

- Review, checking and approval of all required designs.

- Collaborate with designers from other disciplines within the business

- Practise Safety and Sustainability by design on all projects

- Support and work on the resolution of design challenges

- Deliver scope of works to programme, budget and quality

- Interface with other stakeholders for project delivery

- Follow document management procedures

- Train, mentor and coach junior colleagues

- Display the Balfour Beatty Behaviours; Talk Positively, Collaborate Relentlessly, Encourage Constantly, Make a Difference and Value Everyone

- Embed Balfour Beatty Behaviours into your work; Lean, Expert, Trusted, Safe, Sustainable

Who we're looking for

The required skills are:

- Degree level education (or equivalent) in Civil, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.

- Understanding of OHL design, with extensive experience as an OHL Design Engineer

- Understanding of UK and European design codes and standards for the industry (SSE, National Grid, ENA Technical Specifications, BS EN 50341, and IEC Standards)

- Good knowledge of PLS CADD

- Proficient user of Microsoft Office

- Desire to work towards Chartered Engineer, if not already doing so

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

About us

Our skilled and dedicated teams deliver a range of proactive and reactive services which support a reliable and safe supply of power flowing to millions of homes and businesses around the world. Our contracts range from 50,000 schemes to 100 million plus major projects.

Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions. With experience and expertise across the full spectrum of the electricity grid our teams have capability across overhead lines, cable tunnels, distribution networks and substations. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support clients in the development of some of the world’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone