Job Description

Company Description
Work with Us. Change the World.
At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.
There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.
We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Start here. Grow here.
Are you ready to join a team of talented engineers and shape the future of energy infrastructure?
The Transmission & Distribution (T&D) Engineering team provides a range of services from the initial concept through Power Systems Analysis, Cabling, Substations, Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure, System Balancing and Compensation, Protection Systems, SCADA, Communications, Converter Station Design and HVDC Systems.
Due to continued growth across a breadth of projects and clients, we are looking for an experienced Associate Director or Principal Engineer for Overhead Line Design to deliver a range of innovative and technically challenging projects which encompass overhead transmission lines up to 400KV. This is a fantastic time to join us and apply your skills across a multi-disciplinary, dedicated team and work within a varied portfolio of groundbreaking projects. A key project you will have the opportunity to work on is the UK National Grid's Great Grid Partnership. Part of a 9bn Enterprise partnership that will connect clean energy to homes and businesses across England and Wales by 2030.
Here's what you'll do:

• 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.
• 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.
• Contribute to written proposals outlining all project details, including the timeline, resources, budget, objectives, and goals.
• Provide technical engineering expertise in delivering overhead line design on complex multi-discipline projects. This includes (but is not limited to); LS-CADD modelling, line routing, structural analysis loading trees, formulation of design criteria, sag-tension calculations, damper system recommendations, strategic structural spotting, and judicious conductor and insulator selection.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
Qualifications
Ready to push the limits of what's possible?
Here's what we're looking for:

• 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

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 . At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.
If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!
Additional Information
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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn (Francesca Siddle).
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.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
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're the world's trusted global infrastructure firm, and we're in this together - your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you'll 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'll 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 if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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