Senior Secondary Design Engineer

Snc-Lavalin; Västerås kommun; On-site; SEK 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Snc-Lavalin is looking for a Senior Secondary Design Engineer based in Västerås, Sweden. This role involves leading secondary engineering activities for complex EHV/HV substation projects, working closely with civil designs, and coordinating interfaces within multidisciplinary teams.

Ideal candidates will have extensive substation engineering experience, a Bachelor's or Master's in electrical/mechanical engineering, and fluent proficiency in both Swedish and English. The position requires strong communication skills and a proactive approach to achieve project goals.

Qualifications

• Extensive substation engineering experience with local utilities.
• Knowledge of required legislative demands and standards.

Responsibilities

• Technical lead of secondary engineering activities.
• Provide information for civil designs and interface coordination.
• Participate in technical discussions with customers and suppliers.
• Responsible for engineering budget, schedule, and risk management.
• Provide technical solutions for substations.
• Review vendor's solutions for compliance.
• Prepare bill of quantities and cost estimations.
• Review supplier’s designs and attend factory tests.
• Provide technical support to tender and project.

Skills

Fluent in Swedish and English

Team player with proactive approach

Excellent communication skills

Knowledge of system studies

Knowledge of secondary engineering

Strong in MS Office and design tools

Knowledge in MicroStation and AutoCAD

Education

Bachelor or master’s in electrical/Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Job Title

Senior Secondary Design Engineer

Reporting To

Engineering manager

Location

Vasteras, Sweden

Overview

The Senior Secondary Design Engineer will be a member of the Linxon Sweden Engineering Team and contribute to effectively executing the Secondary engineering activities within projects and tenders. The Secondary Design Engineer will work in a skilled team on a wide range of T&D Substation projects. The position will focus on the project and tender engineering and its interfaces and scope of work involved in HV - Substations design within the Linxon EPC and technical lead of the secondary design of substations to meet customer needs, legislative demands, and standards. Also, to ensure project execution within budget and time.

Responsibilities

• Technical lead of secondary Engineering activities of large and complex EHV/HV Air & Gas Insulated Substation (AIS & GIS) projects.
• Provide information for civil designs and coordination of interfaces between construction planning, protection and control system, auxiliary power system, LV and control cables, surveillance system, and equipment suppliers for the project.
• Participate in technical discussions with customers and suppliers, handle site queries and take necessary actions up to as-built documentation.
• Responsible for Engineering budget, schedule, forecast, risk & change management activities.
• Provide technical solution for substations comprising Single Line Diagram for auxiliary power system, dimensioning of Auxiliary power system, technical information, and associated detailed drawings.
• Review and evaluate vendor's solutions to comply with Linxon and customer requirements.
• Provide technical calculations, technical purchasing specifications, and schedules for all equipment for projects or tenders.
• Prepare bill of quantities & cost estimation, deviations & clarifications for technical solutions.
• Review of Supplier's design, Factory acceptance test plans, attend factory & site tests.
• Provide technical support to tender and project.

Experience Required

• Extensive substation engineering experience of local utilities SVK, Vattenfall, Ellevio.
• Knowledge of required legislative demands and standards.

Competencies / Skills Required

• Fluent in Swedish and English – both written and spoken.
• Team player with a proactive approach to achieve results.
• Excellent communication skills to interact with external and internal parties at all levels in a multi-cultural environment.
• Knowledge of system studies like voltage drop, short circuit calculation, Single Line Diagrams, Auxiliary Power Systems, cables.
• Knowledge of secondary engineering Protection and control system.
• Strong in MS Office & handling design calculation tools.
• Knowledge in MicroStation and AutoCAD.

Education Required

Bachelor or master’s in electrical/Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.

Personal Qualities Required

• Driven by value-added and business sustainability.
• Calm under pressure in a constantly changing environment.
• Assertive, decisive, confident.
• Excellent listener.
• Proactive and self-disciplined.
• Resilient and flexible achiever.
• Leading by example, with strong values.
• Team player.
• Passionate to succeed.
• Willingness to learn.

EEO Statement

At Linxon, 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.