Our client, a design and engineering consultancy, has a requirement for a Senior HV Substations Engineer where you will be responsible for ensuring the quality and consistency of the team’s output in the production and control of drawings and technical documents. You will also be involved on some level to assist during the bid process in order to secure further work.

You can be based in either London, Derby or Warwick for this role and there will be some remote working available.

Principal responsibilities:

You will need to have experience in the production of all designs, calculations, reports and drawings associated with new or modification of projects from 11kV – 400kV covering primary design including earthing and LV/secondary design. This will cover the production of substation primary layouts, primary equipment specifications, equipment rating calculations, busbar short circuit force calculations, preparation of substation interlocking schematics, earthing studies, impressed voltage calculations, and production of material specification lists.

You will manage the production through a robust checking process but must also develop drawing office standards, mentor and train the CAD technicians.

Key skills/experience required:

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, ideally in the Power Engineering sector.
• Knowledge of substation design up to 400kV.
• Ideally working toward TP137 / TP141 authorisation by National Grid.
• Previous experience in the Rail sector is highly desirable.

Qualifications:

• Minimum BEng/BSc in related engineering field, ideally MEng/MSc in Electrical Engineering.
• Working toward CEng status.