About the Role
Within this role you will be reporting to the Principal / Associate Engineer – HV and will be responsible ensuring the quality and consistency of the team’s output in the production and control of drawings and technical documents. You will also work with the Sector Director - Power to assist during the bid process in order to secure further work.
Responsibilities & Accountabilities
The candidate must have experience (depending on role) 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.
The candidate must have a reasonable level of maths and science, preferably from a power engineering background and have good communication skills. In the role they will manage the production through a robust checking process but must also develop drawing office standards, mentor and train the CAD technicians and when work dictates support the actual delivery of the outputs.
Skills & Experience
Essesntial
- Minimum BEng/BSc in related engineering field, ideally MEng/MSc in Electrical Engineering.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience or minimum of 7 years' experience in lieu of BEng/BSc
Desirable
- Working toward CEng status.
- Knowledge of substation design up to 400kV.
- Ideally working toward TP137 / TP141 authorisation by National Grid.
- Background or previous relevant experience in the Rail sector is desirable.
About BakerHicks
Ireland’s largest hospital. Europe’s most complex station development. World-class biomedical research laboratories. At BakerHicks, we provide an incredible range of design and engineering consultancy services to clients who demand exceptional results.
Specialising in complex infrastructure, process and built environments across the full project life cycle, our disciplines range from initial architecture to civil and structural, building services, specialist high voltage and process engineering services, programme management and CDM consultancy, using the latest innovations in Building Information Modelling (BIM) for the most efficient and cost-effective design.
Benefits
Working at BakerHicks means a chance to make your mark on some of the most exciting design and engineering projects in their sectors. Whatever your discipline, you’ll be alongside some of the most talented people in the industry.
Our network of offices are appealing, friendly and comfortable spaces, easily accessible by car or public transport. And our salary and benefits packages are some of the best in the industry. What you get will depend on what you do, with individual performance-related rewards also on offer in addition to:
- Company car or cash allowance
- Up to 6% matched contributory pension plan
- Life assurance scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus ability to buy additional leave
- Discount scheme (including gym membership, mobile phones etc)
- Family friendly policies
- Employee assistance
- Professional development