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Senior / Principal Engineer - Overhead Lines (OHL), Warrington
Client:
AECOM
Location:
Warrington, United Kingdom
Job Category:
-
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
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Job Views:
4
Posted:
13.04.2025
Expiry Date:
28.05.2025
Job Description:
Role Title: Senior / Principal Engineer- Overhead Lines (OHL)
Location: Across the UK.
Pushing the limits of what is possible.
We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.
Leading the change toward a sustainable and equitable future.
AECOM is a leading provider of engineering, environment and construction services, and is contributing its deep experience to help strategically plan, develop, design and construct energy infrastructure to not only meet future demands but to deliver sustainable legacies for our clients, community and our planet.
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.
AECOM and its joint venture partner have been appointed as design and consenting service partners for the UK National Grid’s Great Grid Partnership. Part of a £9bn Enterprise partnership that will connect clean energy to homes and businesses across England and Wales by 2030. This is one of the key projects you will have the opportunity to work on as part of this role!
Here’s what you’ll do:
* You will join us as a key member of our Transmission & Distribution team dedicated to engaging with our clients and directly contributing to the successful delivery of ground breaking and technically challenging OHL design projects encompassing overhead transmission lines up to 400KV.
* You’ll provide technical expertise in bids and proposals and represent the Company in client meetings as a 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.
Here’s what we’re looking for:
* 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
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 [emailprotected].
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!
Interested in the role or curious about life at AECOM? Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to explore our AECOM voices, employee stories, latest projects, and much more!
For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn (Francesca Siddle).
About AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
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.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
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