Senior Engineer – HV (Substations)

National

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BakerHicks
Ref
73130
Vacancy title
Senior Engineer – HV (Substations)
Function(s)
Design, Engineering, Project Management
Contract type
Full time permanent
Region
National
Location(s)
Manchester
Description

About the Role

Within this role as the Principal Substations Design Engineer you will be reporting to the Associate Director of the HV Power team and 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 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 & drawings associated with new or modification of EHV projects from 11kV – 400kV covering primary design, secondary design and protection & control. This will cover the production of Substation primary layouts, primary equipment specifications, equipment rating calculations, busbar short circuit force calculations, earthing studies, impressed voltage calculations, production of material specification lists, fault calculations, P&C wiring diagrams, protection requirements and system modelling.

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.

The candidate must be enthusiastic, mature enough to operate in a diverse team and work without full time supervision. This role can lead to many of the career paths for the employee as they develop through BakerHicks.

Skills & Experience

Essential

  • Minimum BEng/Bsc in Electrical Engineering, ideally MEng/MSc in Electrical Engineering.
  • The candidate shall be proficient in the technical requirements of Primary Design as identified in the Job Description.
  • Strong preference for experience in 11kV – 400kV

Desirable

  • Be or working toward CEng status
  • Ideally working toward TP137 / TP141 authorisation by National Grid
  • It is desirable that the candidate be proficient in Secondary and P&C Design as identified in the Job Description although not essential

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 

 


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