Job Title: Primary Design Engineer
Reporting to: Head of Engineering, UK
Location: Hybrid with one office trip per week
Candidates Must have previous CDAE experience for National Grid Substation work
Outside IR35 Contract on offer – Ltd co rate neg
About the role:
To provide technical expertise in the design and installation of Substation Layouts for 400kV to 11kV substations.
As a leading engineering company, we help our customers with turnkey substation solutions in the field of power transmission, renewable energy and transportation.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to be part of a new company as it evolves and help shape it for the future
Experience and remit required:
Technical:
Lead and deliver primary and HV design packages on substation projects, including Grid projects, wind farms, etc.. as assigned by line manager.
To develop substation layouts and associated detail diagrams in accordance with established UK standards and processes through working with and leading allocated CAD resource locally and in other business units.
To develop technical specifications and material schedules for HV primary equipment.
Undertake primary design & calculations, grounding & lightning design, steel design inputs, transformers, converters/rectifiers, HV & MV switchgear systems, auxiliary power AC & DC systems, power cables, RFQ, BOQ, SCF, DSLP, earthing system, busbar sizing, cable engineering.
Provide technical support and to develop tender scheme options and related project scope documents.
To produce engineering time estimates and support monthly forecasts to complete.
To lead and input into design and hazard review meetings.
To provide technical support on site when required.
Develop tenders and proposals as assigned by line manager.
Training and mentoring junior staff.
Position Interactions:
Line Managers for resourcing, domain knowledge, training and issues/conflict resolution
Other Engineering functions inc HV cables, civils, commissioning, secondary systems, engineering support and lead engineers
Site commissioning, test engineers and installation team
Customers and technical assurance for design review
Suppliers for technical alignment and review
Wider project teams incl. project managers, planning, tendering and supply chain
Other responsibilities:
To prepare conductor force calculations.
To check and approve project documentation in accordance with established standards.
To ensure own work packages and delegated work packages are delivered to project program, scope and align to allocated budget. Provide comment where required on delegated works.
Extensive experience in substations primary engineering .
Experience as a Contractor Design Approval Engineer (CDAE), as defined by National Grid's NG/ET/SR188 procedure will be an advantage.
A Chartered Engineer (through IET) status or working towards it is desirable.
MSc or BSc in electrical engineering or related engineering discipline/field or equivalent.
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