Overview

AECOM Manchester, England, United Kingdom is hiring for the Senior / Principal Engineer - Overhead Lines (OHL) role. Location: Across the UK.

Role details

Role Title: Senior / Principal Engineer - Overhead Lines (OHL)

Location: Across the UK

Responsibilities

• You’ll provide technical expertise in bids and proposals and represent the Company in client meetings as an senior member of the OHL team, applying your experience and expertise to a range of exciting and interesting projects.


• You will provide technical engineering expertise in delivering overhead line design on complex multi-discipline projects. This encompasses PLS-CADD modelling, meticulous line routing, comprehensive structural analysis and loading trees, formulation of design criteria, precise sag-tension calculations, insulator/conductor blowout, swing angle, damper system recommendations, strategic structural spotting, thorough clearance reports, and judicious conductor and insulator selection.


• Take responsibility for assigned project scope, technical delivery, and client engagement for overhead line works within projects.


• Provide expert technical evaluations and offer problem-solving solutions to different team members. Contribute to written proposals outlining all project details, including the timeline, resources, budget, objectives, and goals.


• Undertake feasibility studies, performing conductor thermal ratings, and ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. Conduct studies to identify a technically preferred solution/layout to present to the client.


• Ensure your work meets safety, health, environmental, sustainability, and quality standards.


• Ensure adherence to AECOM and client design management processes while leading project and client meetings as needed.


• Represent AECOM with professionalism and integrity, adhering to ethical standards and the Code of Conduct.


• Checking and review engineering deliverables such as complex designs, reports, proposals, presentations, and drawing packages.


• Perform internal reviews and quality checks of engineering drawings and calculations that fall within your scope of work.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering or an equivalent technical discipline


• Ideally be professionally qualified CEng Chartered Engineer with a recognised electrical engineering institution (e.g. the IET).


• Experience delivering projects for transmission system operators


• Project experience in overhead line engineering up to 400kV.


• LCDAE & CDAE certifications are advantageous.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

Enjoy the Perks. At AECOM, you\'ll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Diversity and Inclusion

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com. At AECOM, we value everyone\'s unique contributions and perspectives.

Please note, we are also able to consider Visa Sponsorship for this position.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Culture and Growth

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you\'re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We\u2019re the world\'s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we\u2019re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you\u2019ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person\'s potential, and we\u2019ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Architecture and Planning, Civil Engineering, and Construction