Job Description
Being part of the team:
We have an opportunity for a Principal Engineer to join our HVDC team in the UK and Ireland Transmission and Distribution practice, in our Energy business unit.
You can be based in any of our locations in the UK and Ireland which includes Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Newcastle, and St Albans.
Please let us know what your preferred hybrid and flexible work arrangements to help us understand and support what works best for you.
What your new role will entail:
The primary objective of this role is to support the development and delivery of HVDC and FACTS activities. You’ll be expected to provide technical expertise in bids and proposals and to represent the company in client meetings as appropriate.
Typical HVDC and FACTS activities include:
* Feasibility Studies
* Optioneering Studies
* Specification preparation
* Technical Bid Review
* Design Assurance
* Design Review
* Site and FAT visits
* OEM Support Services
* Site pre-commissioning and commissioning oversight supervision
* Due Diligence
* Technical expert services
* Some original designs may also be involved.
You will lead and develop the HVDC and FACTS team and may have line management responsibility for those staff.
Qualifications
Here’s what we will need from you:
* Professionally qualified in Electrical Engineering (CEng or working towards)
* Demonstrate a significant knowledge of HVDC technology along with a grounding in general power systems engineering
* Coordinate across project disciplines, external subcontractors and remote offices such that technical risks are identified and mitigated, and all statutory and regulatory requirements are met
* Strong written and verbal communication skills; experienced in creating and presenting technical reports; and responding to clients’ technical questions
* Ability to understand and communicate customer requirements, lead technical discussions with customers and develop client relationships
* Understanding of Systems Engineering principles and requirements management
* Understanding of functional characteristics of power systems and interactions between AC and HVDC systems
* Able to work to deadlines under pressure whilst maintaining the safety, quality and engineering integrity of the solution
* Prepared take part in working groups such as CIGRE, IET and other professional bodies
* Be able to demonstrate an understanding of HVDC scheme design and system studies.
Additional Information
You can learn more about us here: 2023 AECOM Candidate Brochure (adobe.com)
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You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
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Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
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