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Job Description
Job Title: Principal Design Engineer
Location: Birmingham/Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Principal Design Engineer will lead and work in a skilled team on a wide range of National Grid, SSEN & SPEN substation projects. The position will focus on the project and tender engineering and its interfaces and scope of work involved in HV - substation design and construction projects, within the Linxon EPC and technical lead of the electro-mechanical design of substation to meet customer needs, legislative demands and standards.
What will you do?
Key Areas Of Responsibility (KARs)
* Overall responsible for managing & leading all engineering activities from project start till the As-Built stage with strict adherence to Project Specifications & Linxon standards including QA/QC, HSSE & Integrity.
* Technical lead of large and complex EHV/HV Air & Gas Insulated Substation (AIS & GIS) projects in UK.
* Instruct, supervise & coordinate engineering teams within Linxon (local & remote), internal & external partners, sub-suppliers, secondary engineers & civil engineers.
* Provide information for civil designs and coordination of interfaces between construction planning, steel structure engineering, protection and control system, auxiliary power system and all 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
* Engineering budget, schedule, forecast, risk & change management activities.
* Technical claim management & supporting PM/Contracting/Operation management team.
Technical solutions
* Provide technical solution for substations comprising Single line diagram, technical information, layouts and associated detail drawings and documents by established applicable standards, processes and customer specifications through allocated resources locally and in other business units.
* Develop technical concepts, technical specifications, selection of equipment and connection material considering costs, quality, international standards, and material.
* Provide technical calculations, technical purchasing specification and schedules for all equipment for projects or tenders.
* Prepare bill of quantities & cost estimation, deviations & clarifications for technical solutions.
* Review of Suppliers design, Factory acceptance test plans, attend factory & site tests.
* Provide technical support and to develop tender scheme options and related project scope documents.
Experience Required
* Bachelor or master’s in electrical engineering or equivalent
* Extensive years substation engineering experience in utilities. Knowledge of required NG, SSEN & SPEN requirements and standards.
Competencies/ Skills Required
* Principal designer (PD) / LCDAE certification from National Grid.
* Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or working towards it
* Result orientated team player with a proactive approach.
* Excellent in communication, to interact with external and internal parties at all levels in a multi-cultural environment.
* Expert knowledge in Substation design and engineering, Layouts, Primary design & calculations, Grounding & Lightning design, Steel design inputs, transformers, HV & MV Switchgear systems,
* Knowledge of system studies like load flow, short circuit calculation; Single Line Diagrams, CT/VT calculations, Auxiliary Power Systems, power cables.
* Knowledge of secondary engineering, protection and control system.
* Experience in Installation & Commissioning is a plus.
* Strong in MS Office, knowledge in MicroStation and AutoCAD is required.
* Fluency in English – both written and spoken
* Availability to travel 25 % of the time (domestic/international travel)
* working in an office and on a construction site
About Linxon
Shaping energy solutions to empower sustainable connectivity.
We combine Hitachi Energy’s deep technological knowledge and Atkins Realis’s project management expertise to create a company dedicated to substations – we are Linxon. Linxon’s vision is to deliver the best market offering for turnkey substation projects through world-class power technologies and delivering the highest level of competence in managing infrastructure projects.
As a leading engineering company, we help our customers with turnkey substation solutions in the field of power transmission, renewable energy and transportation.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to be part of a new company as it evolves and help shape it for the future. If you like new challenges, have an entrepreneurial spirit and are interested in working with other motivated professionals with expertise in the Substations EPC business, then this is the new opportunity for you.
To know more about the Linxon please click on the link below.
Building the infrastructure to power the world - we are Linxon! - YouTube
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