Role description
The energy landscape as we know it is rapidly transforming. Join us as a Principal Substation Engineer and you’ll have the opportunity to accelerate your career. You’ll be part of our industry‑leading Transmissions and Distributions team, acting as partners to our clients, building a deep understanding of their challenges and applying your expertise to solve them.
As a Principal Substation Engineer you will be working on engineering and construction projects primarily in industrial, transmission/distribution and renewable sectors. You must be able to appreciate complex, practical, regulatory, technical and commercial issues and to work constructively with a broad range of senior stakeholders.
Role accountabilities
- Client liaison from initial contact through project delivery.
- Delivering small to medium sized new projects with minimal support, retrofit or network reinforcement projects throughout the project lifecycle.
- Producing electrical engineering deliverables where appropriate.
- Liaise with CAD technicians and Engineers to determine safe, cost‑effective substation design solutions.
- Understanding and interpretation of National Grid specifications, DNO regulations and British/IEC standards.
- Identification and mitigation of relevant health and safety risks and hazards.
- Understanding and application of CDM designer regulations for HV and EHV projects.
- Coordination between inter‑disciplinary teams such as civils, protection & controls, earthing and studies.
- Preparing specifications of HV and EHV plant equipment, including evaluation of supplier documents and reports.
- Working and supporting bid development and related documentation.
Qualifications & Experience
- Degree or relevant qualification in Electrical Engineering.
- CDAE/LCDAE authorisation preferable.
- Experience working as a substation/plant engineer to regulated industry standards.
- Preparation of HV Substation primary plant design deliverables, feasibility studies, reports, programmes and cost estimating.
- Broad knowledge of transmission technologies and a good understanding of how these influence the operation and performance of the transmission system.
- Proven experience in HV & EHV Substation design (both AIS & GIS), from 11kV up to including 400kV.
- Experience in LV and power distribution of substations.
- Hands‑on experience with Amtech software for LVA/AC fuse/MCCB selectivity study is desirable.
- Experience in working on National Grid, SSEN, SPEN, SPR projects.
- Knowledge of HVDC primary plant will be an added advantage.
- Can demonstrate success in delivering engineering and/or projects safely to budget, time and quality that meets customer expectations.
- Ability to work with internal and external parties within a strong team‑working culture.
- Experience in writing clear and concise documentation.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race.
