Technical lead – Transmission line design

Growth For Impact; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Growth For Impact is seeking a Transmission Line Design Specialist to establish and maintain design bases, ethics, and standard practices for line projects in India. You will lead route alignment, survey interfaces, and electrical design choices while ensuring safety, reliability and regulatory compliance.

You will oversee tower spotting and span optimisation using PLS-CADD tools, review tower analyses, and drive engineering deliverables with clear traceability.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in transmission line design and engineering workflows.
• Ability to interpret analysis outputs from design tools and ensure compliance.
• Strong decision making and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain design bases, philosophies and standard practices.
• Provide technical leadership for route alignment and survey interface.
• Govern electrical design of transmission lines including conductor choices and geometry.
• Lead tower spotting and span optimisation using PLS-CADD tools.
• Review tower analysis outputs and ensure readiness for prototype testing.
• Prepare and approve engineering deliverables with traceability and revision control.
• Lead design reviews and risk assessments; define mitigation measures.
• Drive value engineering while maintaining safety and compliance.
• Escalate technical issues during execution and finalize as-built documentation.
• Interface with clients, EPC contractors and internal teams to align deliverables.

Skills

PLS-CADD

PLS-Tower

PLS-Pole

STAAD Pro

AutoCAD

Technical leadership

Stakeholder management

Automation & standardisation

Design review

Project coordination

Tools

PLS-CADD

PLS-Tower

PLS-Pole

STAAD Pro

AutoCAD

Job description

ROLE

• Establish, implement and maintain the Transmission Line Design Basis, engineering philosophies, calculation methodologies and standard practices, ensuring alignment with national and international standards, regulations and client-specific technical requirements.
• Provide technical leadership for route alignment and survey interface, including review and validation of topographical surveys, longitudinal profiles and plan drawings, ensuring routing decisions adequately address electrical clearances, ROW constraints, environmental considerations, access, constructability and lifecycle risks.
• Govern the electrical design of transmission lines, including selection and approval of conductors, ground wire / OPGW, phase configuration, insulation strings and geometry, and ensuring sag–tension philosophy adequately considers temperature effects, creep behaviour and code‑mandated reliability conditions.
• Lead and approve PLS‑CADD based tower spotting and span optimisation, ensuring appropriate tower type selection, sectioning philosophy and angle distribution, while balancing structural safety, foundation feasibility, constructability and overall project cost optimisation.
• Review and approve tower structural analysis and design outputs, including results from PLS‑Tower, PLS‑Pole or equivalent tools, member sizing, slenderness checks, utilisation ratios, connection philosophy and detailing approach, ensuring readiness for prototype tower testing where applicable.
• Oversee preparation, review and approval of engineering deliverables and documentation, including design calculation reports, plan & profile drawings, tower schedules, foundation drawings, stringing charts, erection drawings and construction‑ready documentation, ensuring accuracy, clarity, revision control and traceability.
• Lead internal and external design reviews, technical workshops and risk assessments, identifying design, constructability and execution risks at early stages and defining appropriate mitigation measures.
• Drive value engineering and optimisation initiatives across line routing, tower spotting, tower and foundation design, without compromising safety, reliability or statutory compliance.
• Act as the technical escalation point for execution‑stage support, including resolution of site‑driven design changes, non‑conformances, deviations, construction‑stage technical queries, and finalisation of as‑built engineering documentation.
• Interface effectively with clients, utilities, EPC contractors, PMCs and internal multidisciplinary teams, ensuring technical alignment, timely resolution of comments and smooth progression of engineering deliverables.
• Support bid and tender‑stage engineering activities, including review of technical specifications, definition of engineering scope and assumptions, estimation of engineering effort and identification of technical risks impacting cost and schedule.

REQUIREMENTS

• In‑depth understanding of transmission line load cases and reliability conditions, tower configurations and foundation interfaces, and electrical clearances including sag‑tension behaviour and construction practices.
• Hands‑on working knowledge of PLS‑CADD, PLS‑Tower, PLS‑Pole and STAAD Pro, with the ability to interpret analysis outputs and design results.
• Strong technical judgment and sound engineering decision‑making capability.
• Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and complex project interfaces.
• Clear, structured communication with internal teams, clients and contractors.
• High level of ownership, delivery discipline and quality orientation.
• Ability to define and drive automation and standardisation strategies across transmission line engineering workflows to improve productivity, consistency and quality.
• Experience in establishing standard design templates, calculation formats and tool configurations for PLS‑CADD, PLS‑Tower and AutoCAD to ensure uniform application across projects.
• Capability to identify high‑effort or repetitive engineering activities and guide the team in implementing automation, reusable libraries and optimised workflows.
• Strong focus on delivery efficiency, quality