Senior Electrical Design Engineer (Substations)
London or Manchester (Hybrid working)
Permanent Opportunity
We are seeking a customer facing Electrical Design Engineer (Substations) to work on a permanent basis in either London or Manchester (Hybrid working model). Our client is a leading global consultancy providing data centre services, specializing in the development and operation of high-performance, scalable, and secure data centre facilities. They serve a diverse range of clients, including cloud service providers, telecommunications companies, and enterprise customers.
Requirements:
* Detailed design of substations with strong experience in substation designs between 110kV to 400kV.
* Assisting the Electrical Engineer in substation design and build execution ensuring all projects are technically sound, compliant with relevant national and international standards (e.g., IEC, IEEE, BS), and delivered on schedule and budget.
* Solid understanding of protection and control concepts that are applicable within the substation and other electrical architecture topology
* Strong Experience in delivering power system studies using ETAP. The below mentioned studies will be required to be delivered
* Load Flow analysis
* Short Circuit analysis
* Harmonic Analysis
* Protection and coordination studies
* Cable calculations - HV, MV and LV
* Provide technical guidance & support to AEs and EPC contractors from concept to detailed design to commissioning
* Design stages involvement from campus planning to IFC and into construction support
* Carry out design reviews, ensuring adherence to client specifications and national grid codes.
* Multi- discipline collaboration with all stakeholders to integrate electrical design within the overall site plan.
Day to day:
* Attend design meetings (internal and external) both discipline-specific and multi-disciplinary coordination calls.
* Generate technical reports, calculation packages, and design justification documents
* Provide feedback and regular reports
* Review of milestone designs released by AE, commenting via ACC or similar and agreeing closure steps with the AE.
* Working closely, with internal and external cross functional teams
* Produce presentations, documents etc using GSuite; Slides, Docs, Sheets etc
* Escalate potential issues as and when required
* Travel to sites across EMEA as required (following approval)- (as a guideline, travel would be a series of 2-3 day trips)
* Constructability input will be required on the data centre and substation designs
* Identify opportunities for innovation, cost optimisation & schedule improvements and sustainability and carbon reduction initiatives
* Location is remote (Preferred London), Dublin and Amsterdam will also be considered
* Preferred software skills: ETAP (mandatory), SKM, Amtech, Ampcalc or Similar, DigSilent, Cymap