Senior HV Electrical Engineer

Snc-Lavalin; Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Employee rewards

Flexible holiday allowances

Job summary

Snc-Lavalin is seeking a Senior HV Electrical Engineer to join their Dublin team. This role entails delivering innovative electrical design solutions for critical projects across Ireland and beyond. You will be engaged with major utilities and must have extensive experience in HV substation design.

The ideal candidate will be qualified to degree level, possess strong communication skills, and have a passion for leading technical workstreams. Competitive salary and benefits offered.

Qualifications

• Qualified to degree level, ideally working towards Chartered Engineer status.
• Proven experience in HV substation design (132kV-400kV) within Ireland and UK.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and assess HV substations and grid development projects.
• Provide input into contestable specification packs and equipment specifications.
• Deliver projects through all lifecycle stages from feasibility to commissioning.

Skills

High-voltage substation design

Stakeholder engagement

Technical workstream leadership

Energy storage systems

HV cable systems

Education

Degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's Degree

Job description

## Senior HV Electrical EngineerApplylocations: IE.Dublin.Swordstime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: R-158440### **Job Description**## OverviewThis is an excellent opportunity for skilled Senior HV Electrical Engineer to join our team at our Dublin office to play a key role in ensuring the successful delivery of innovative electrical design solutions for some of the most exciting building projects in Ireland, the UK and internationally.Your role will include working with a range of clients/stakeholders including major utilities and large global demand customers in a rapidly changing energy sector.## Your roleThe role is a permanent position within our team for an ambitious and enthusiastic Electrical Engineer. Reporting to the Power team Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for a range of tasks including:* Extensive experience in design and owners engineering of high-voltage substations and grid development projects.* Review HV plant aspects including layouts, earthing, interlocking, busbar calculations, and technical specifications.* Review and assess detailed designs for compliance with outline design and functional specifications, including assessment of proposed amendments or variations.* Provide input into or produce aspects of contestable specification packs (schematics, interlocking, SLDs, substation layout drawings) and provide expertise on HV cables, stations and OHL for customer projects.* Equipment specifications for HV plant and ancillary equipment.* Providing engineering design input to major electrical power infrastructural development projects through all lifecycle stages from feasibility and front‐end engineering to detailed design, site construction monitoring and commissioning.* Delivering projects in new technologies such as energy storage, HVDC systems, smart‐grid solutions, waste‐to‐energy and related emerging areas.* Supporting tendering activities and contributing to technical offers.## About you* Qualified to degree level and will ideally be, or working towards Chartered Engineer status.* Proven experience in HV substation design (132kV-400kV), ideally within Ireland and UK transmission and distribution environments.* High level of Familiarity and experiences with Irish TSO and DNO standards and processes.* Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.* Demonstrated ability to lead technical workstreams and contribute to strategic project delivery.* Experience relating to design, delivery and supervision of HV substation solutions (110kV to 400kV).**Preferred, but not necessary*** Experience in development of specifications for HV AIS/GIS substations and associated primary/secondary equipment.* Experience in design of Overhead Line Systems for transmission networks.* Experience in design of HV cable systems (minimum 110kV).* Experience in site construction and/or testing/commissioning for HV plant systems.* Experience in earthing software design (CDEGs) and system studies/protection co-ordination software (ETAP).* Experience in control and protection systems design.* Masters Degree.## Rewards & benefitsExplore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.Be rewarded. Find out more.## About AtkinsRéalisWe're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.Find out more.## Additional informationWe are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.### **Worker Type**Employee### **Job Type**Regular*At* *AtkinsRéalis**, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.*