Senior HV Electrical Engineer

Rent a Recruiter; Leinster; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Hybrid working

Training & development

Employee recognition

Wellbeing program

Share schemes

Remote work up to 20 days/year

Job summary

Rent a Recruiter is partnering with a growing global engineering and infrastructure consultancy in Dublin. They seek a Senior HV Electrical Engineer to design high‑voltage substations and lead engineering workstreams across Ireland, the UK and internationally, reporting to the Power team Principal Engineer.

The role offers a hybrid model (3 days in office), exposure to energy storage, HVDC, smart grid projects, and opportunities for professional development and career progression within a

Qualifications

• Degree level required with Chartered Engineer status ideal or in progress.
• HV substation design experience (132kV-400kV) in Ireland/UK contexts.
• Familiar with Irish TSO and DNO standards and processes.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to lead technical workstreams and contribute to project delivery.
• Experience in design, delivery and supervision of HV substation solutions (110kV–400kV).

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

HV Substation Design

Project Leadership

Stakeholder Engagement

Communication

Technical Review & Compliance

Power Systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Senior HV Electrical Engineer

Location: Dublin.

Working Model: Hybrid (3 days in office).

About the Opportunity

We are partnering with a growing and ambitious global engineering and infrastructure consultancy company, with offices across Ireland. This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled Senior HV Electrical Engineer to join their team at their 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.

Rewards & benefits

• Competitive salary package.
• Hybrid working culture.
• Training and professional development.
• Employee recognition program.
• Employee wellbeing program.
• Share schemes.
• Work remotely from another country for up to 20 days each year.

Key Responsibilities

The role is a permanent position 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.

Qualifications & Requirements

• 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).

Our client seeks to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. They 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.