Senior Electrical Engineer – Substation Design Wide

Senior Electrical Engineer – Substation Design (UK Wide)

AECOM Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand, and we invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams to a global team of over 50,000 professionals.

Are you ready to join a team of talented and innovative engineers within our UK Transmission & Distribution business and grow your career? The Transmission & Distribution department delivers project management, design and owners engineer roles for electrical power projects at transmission and distribution voltages across the UK and globally. The focus of the team is large‑scale grid infrastructure, grid connections, and private networks.

Due to continued growth across a breadth of projects and clients, we are looking for an ambitious Senior Electrical Substation Design Engineer to join the team and apply your skills across a multi‑disciplinary, innovative team within a varied portfolio of groundbreaking projects.

• Design Primary Plant layouts and schematics for HV substations.
• Produce equipment specifications for HV Plant and associated equipment.
• Provide engineering design input to major infrastructure projects.
• Prepare technical specifications and documentation.
• Undertake an Owners’ Engineer role on HV substation/Cable and OHL projects.
• Provide HV design input to renewable energy projects (e.g., battery storage, solar, hydro and wind generation).
• Coordinate across multi‑disciplinary engineering environments and project managers, and conduct site visits/inspections to ensure design integrity.

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, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

• A Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Experience of working on High Voltage design projects.
• Experience of working with major utilities or developers.
• Experience as a designer or as a project engineer.
• Experience of developing specifications or detailed designs for substation control systems, transformers, GIS, and AIS switch gear.
• The ability to work flexibly across multiple projects.
• Experience in technical report writing.
• Fluency in English.
• Full driving license and access to a personal vehicle as site visits may be required.

• Experience of working on multi‑discipline engineering projects.
• Chartered accreditation or working toward status.
• Consultancy experience.
• Experience in reviewing detailed designs and witnessing construction site activities.

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

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