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Associate director/principal engineer - overhead lines (ohl)

Manchester
Aecom
Associate director
€55,000 a year
Posted: 20 October
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Company Description

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.


Job Description

Are you ready to join a team of talented engineers and shape the future of energy infrastructure? The Transmission & Distribution (T&D) Engineering team provides a range of services from the initial concept through Power Systems Analysis, Cabling, Substations, Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure, System Balancing and Compensation, Protection Systems, SCADA, Communications, Converter Station Design, HVDC Systems and Interconnectors including overseas links.


Responsibilities

* You’ll provide technical expertise in bids and proposals and represent the Company in client meetings as an senior member of the OHL team, applying your experience and expertise to a range of exciting and interesting projects.
* You will provide technical engineering expertise in delivering overhead line design on complex multi-discipline projects. This encompasses PLS-CADD modelling, meticulous line routing, comprehensive structural analysis and loading trees, formulation of design criteria, precise sag-tension calculations, insulator/conductor blowout, swing angle, damper system recommendations, strategic structural spotting, thorough clearance reports, and judicious conductor and insulator selection.
* Take responsibility for assigned project scope, technical delivery, and client engagement for overhead line works within projects.
* Provide expert technical evaluations and offer problem-solving solutions to different team members. Contribute to written proposals outlining all project details, including the timeline, resources, budget, objectives, and goals.
* Undertake feasibility studies, performing conductor thermal ratings, and ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. Conduct studies to identify a technically preferred solution/layout to present to the client.
* Ensure your work meets safety, health, environmental, sustainability, and quality standards.
* Ensure adherence to AECOM and client design management processes while leading project and client meetings as needed.
* Represent AECOM with professionalism and integrity, adhering to ethical standards and the Code of Conduct.
* Checking and review engineering deliverables such as complex designs, reports, proposals, presentations, and drawing packages.
* Perform internal reviews and quality checks of engineering drawings and calculations that fall within your scope of work.


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

* A bachelor’s degree in engineering or an equivalent technical discipline
* Ideally be professionally qualified CEng Chartered Engineer with a recognised electrical engineering institution (e.g. the IET)
* Experience delivering projects for transmission system operators
* Project experience in overhead line engineering up to 400kV
* LCDAE & CDAE certifications are advantageous
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills


Legal & Inclusive Statements

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 ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com. 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!

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

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 ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.


Metadata

ReqID: J10136140
Business Line: Energy
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India
Career Area: Engineering
Work Location Model: Hybrid

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