Senior / Principal Engineer - Overhead Lines (OHL)

TN United Kingdom; Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior/Principal Engineer for Overhead Lines to join their Transmission & Distribution team. This role offers the chance to work on groundbreaking projects that shape the future of energy infrastructure. You will be responsible for delivering complex overhead line designs, engaging with clients, and ensuring adherence to industry standards. The company fosters a collaborative environment, providing opportunities for career development and a flexible working model. If you are passionate about engineering and want to make a significant impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working model

Career development opportunities

Volunteering days

Technical practice networks

AECOM University

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent technical discipline required.
• Experience in overhead line engineering up to 400kV is essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver overhead line design on complex multi-discipline projects.
• Engage with clients and ensure compliance with safety and quality standards.

Skills

Technical expertise in overhead line engineering

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

CEng Chartered Engineer

Tools

PLS-CADD

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AECOM

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Manchester, United Kingdom

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Posted:

13.04.2025

Expiry Date:

28.05.2025

Job Description:

Role Title: Senior / Principal Engineer- Overhead Lines (OHL)

Location: Across the UK.

Pushing the limits of what is possible.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Leading the change toward a sustainable and equitable future.

AECOM is a leading provider of engineering, environment and construction services, contributing its deep experience to help strategically plan, develop, design and construct energy infrastructure to meet future demands and deliver sustainable legacies for our clients, community, and our planet.

We look at our projects as part of the broader energy system and across the whole life cycle, from commissioning to decommissioning. We help our clients achieve the right balance across the spectrum of generation through renewable energy sources, solar, wind, stored energy, hydropower and fossil fuels; and alternative energy fuels including hydrogen and electrification.

Start here. Grow here.

Are you ready to join a team of talented engineers and shape the future of energy infrastructure?

The Transmission & Distribution (T&D) Engineering team provides a range of services from the initial concept through Power Systems Analysis, Cabling, Substations, Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure, System Balancing and Compensation, Protection Systems, SCADA, Communications, Converter Station Design, HVDC Systems and Interconnectors including overseas links.

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. The joint venture’s scope of work will include delivering the consents for individual schemes within the program.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• You will join us as a key member of our Transmission & Distribution team dedicated to engaging with our clients and contributing to the successful delivery of ground-breaking and technically challenging OHL design projects encompassing overhead transmission lines up to 400KV.
• You’ll provide technical expertise in bids and proposals and represent the Company in client meetings as a senior member of the OHL team, applying your experience and expertise to a range of exciting and interesting projects.
• You will provide technical engineering expertise in delivering overhead line design on complex multi-discipline projects. 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.
• Take responsibility for assigned project scope, technical delivery, and client engagement for overhead line works within projects.
• Provide expert technical evaluations and offer problem-solving solutions to different team members. Contribute to written proposals outlining all project details, including the timeline, resources, budget, objectives, and goals.
• Undertake 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.
• Ensure your work meets safety, health, environmental, sustainability, and quality standards.
• Ensure adherence to AECOM and client design management processes while leading project and client meetings as needed.
• Represent AECOM with professionalism and integrity, adhering to ethical standards and the Code of Conduct.
• Checking and reviewing engineering deliverables such as complex designs, reports, proposals, presentations, and drawing packages.
• Perform internal reviews and quality checks of engineering drawings and calculations that fall within your scope of work.

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. Please apply, all applications will be considered.

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.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering or an equivalent technical discipline
• Ideally be professionally qualified CEng Chartered Engineer with a recognised electrical engineering institution (e.g. the IET).
• Experience delivering projects for transmission system operators
• Project experience in overhead line engineering up to 400kV.
• LCDAE & CDAE certifications are advantageous.
• 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 [emailprotected]. At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!