Electrical Engineer - Substations (ROI)

AECOM; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Career development opportunities

Volunteer days

Job summary

AECOM is hiring an ambitious Electrical Engineer with HV project experience to join the Transmission & Distribution team in Ireland. The role supports large-scale grid connections, renewable integration, and data centre links within a hybrid work model.

Based in the Republic of Ireland, you will contribute to design, owners' engineer duties, and technical specifications across Ireland/UK and overseas, with opportunities for career development through AECOM University and practice networks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor level or higher degree in electrical engineering with emphasis on HV
• Experience on HV projects in utilities or developers needed
• Ability to author technical reports and present designs clearly
• Experience as designer or project engineer on HV substations or related projects
• Knowledge of substation control systems, transformers, GIS/AIS switchgear desirable
• Chartered status or active progression toward it preferred
• Full driving license and willingness to site-visit when required

Responsibilities

• Create primary plant layouts for HV substations
• Specify equipment for HV plant and related gear
• Provide engineering design input to major infrastructure projects
• Act as Owners' Engineer on HV substation/cable and OHL projects
• Contribute HV design input to renewables like storage, solar, hydro and wind projects
• Provide professional services to clients in Ireland/UK and overseas

Skills

English fluency

Technical report writing

Project flexibility across multiple HV

Education

Degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Substation design software

GIS knowledge

Job description

Company Description

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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

Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options or part-time working patterns available. 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.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organisation you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

Start here. Grow here.

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

AECOM is looking to hire an ambitious Electrical Engineer with HV Project experience to join our growing Transmission & Distribution team based in the Republic of Ireland. The need arises from major growth in our work for traditional and non-traditional end-markets including the connection of renewable generation to the transmission system to meet the government's 2030 targets and the connection of hyperscale data centres to the transmission system.

Our Transmission & Distribution business delivers project management, design and owners engineer services for electrical power projects at transmission and distribution voltages across Ireland and across the world. The focus of the team is large-scale grid infrastructure, grid connections, and private networks. The work can be varied and there will be a lot of opportunity for you to learn and develop your career within this role, working on major projects such as our EirGrid framework:

AECOM appointed to EirGrid engineering design, planning and project management services framework

Here’s what you'll do:

• Primary plant layouts for HV substations
• Equipment specifications for HV Plant and associated equipment
• Providing engineering design input to major infrastructure projects
• Owners' Engineer role on HV substation/Cable and OHL projects
• Providing HV design input to renewable energy projects e.g., Battery storage, Solar, Hydro and Wind generation
• Provide professional services to clients in Ireland/UK and overseas

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

Ready to push the limits of what's possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Degree in Electrical Engineering
• Experience of working on HV projects
• Experience of working with major utilities or developers
• Experience as a designer or as project engineer
• Experience of developing specifications for substation control systems, transformers, GIS, and AIS switchgear
• Ability to work flexibly across multiple projects
• Fluency in English
• Experience in technical report writing
• Full driving license and access to a personal vehicle as site visits may be required as part of this role
• Ideally have experience of working on multi-discipline engineering projects
• Ideally hold Chartered accreditation or working toward status
• Ideally have consultancy experience
• Ideally have experience in reviewing review detailed designs & witnessing construction site activities

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 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!

Additional Information

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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 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 if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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

ReqID: J

Business Line: Energy

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Engineering

Work Location Model: Hybrid