About the job
Kickstart Your Career. Advance Your Future.
Are you ready to be part of a dynamic team of engineers and influence the future of energy infrastructure?
The Transmission & Distribution (T&D) Engineering department offers a comprehensive suite of services, managing projects from 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.
Join us to work on the UK's most innovative T&D project - the National Grid's Great Grid Upgrade. AECOM, in collaboration with our joint venture partner, has been appointed to deliver design and consent services for this monumental £9bn initiative aimed at connecting clean energy to homes and businesses across England and Wales by 2030. Join our team, develop your career, and play a key role in this remarkable project!
Key Responsibilities:
As a vital member of our Transmission & Distribution team, you will lead and collaborate with clients to execute technically demanding overhead line design projects.
Your primary responsibility as the Principal OHL Engineer will be to provide technical support and spearhead the design of transmission projects, working on diverse projects involving overhead transmission lines up to 400kV.
- Deliver technical support for overhead line design on complex, multidisciplinary projects.
- Engage in significant work programs, such as the GGP projects.
- Assist in drafting proposals outlining project specifics, including timelines, resources, budgets, objectives, and goals.
- Provide ongoing technical support during project implementation, statutory planning, and public consultation events.
- Oversee design activities related to overhead lines, including PLS-CADD modeling, detailed line routing, structural analysis, design criteria formulation, sag-tension calculations, and conductor/insulator selection.
- Support feasibility studies, conduct thermal rating assessments, and ensure adherence to industry standards and regulations.
- Conduct studies to identify the optimal technical solution/layout for client presentation.
- Generate and validate engineering deliverables such as complex designs, reports, proposals, presentations, and drawing packages.
- Perform internal quality checks on engineering drawings and calculations.

