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Are you prepared to become a pivotal member of an innovative engineering team that is redefining energy infrastructure?
The Transmission & Distribution (T&D) Engineering team offers a comprehensive suite of services, ranging from initial concepts to advanced 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 international links.
Join us and play a vital role in the UK's most ambitious T&D project - the National Grid's Great Grid Upgrade. AECOM, in partnership with its joint venture, has been selected as design and consenting service partners for the National Grid’s Great Grid Partnership, part of a £9bn initiative aimed at connecting sustainable energy to homes and businesses across England and Wales by 2030. Contribute to this remarkable project and leave your mark on the future of energy.
Your responsibilities will include:
As a senior member of our Transmission & Distribution team, you will lead and engage with clients, ensuring the successful delivery of technically complex overhead line design projects.
Your primary focus as the Principal Overhead Line Engineer will be to provide project technical support and guidance to the overhead lines teams involved in transmission projects, working on various initiatives encompassing overhead transmission lines up to 400kV.
- Lead and provide technical support to deliver overhead line design on intricate multi-discipline projects.
- Offer technical expertise in bids and proposals, acting as the Principal Engineer in client meetings, leveraging your extensive experience on exciting projects.
- Assume full responsibility for project scope and the technical delivery of overhead line works.
- Provide expert evaluations and problem-solving solutions to team members.
- Assist in drafting proposals that outline project details, timelines, resources, budgets, objectives, and goals.
- Deliver technical support throughout project implementation, statutory planning, and public consultation events.
- Oversee design activities related to overhead lines, including PLS-CADD modeling, line routing, structural analysis, design criteria formulation, sag-tension calculations, insulator/conductor selection, and more.
- Conduct feasibility studies and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.

