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Our client is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. They provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people.
Job Description
Due to significant growth across my client’s Transmission and Distribution UK business, they seek a Principal HV Cable Design Engineer. This team specialises in HV cable design for construction, procurement, and consultancy projects, and they are looking for an experienced technical lead to drive sustainable growth and quality within the global team, offering exciting development opportunities. You will ensure that design deliverables meet the project specifications and construction requirements while enhancing team performance through focused staff training and upgraded engineering tools and systems. While this is a hybrid position, it can be based out of any of the clients locations, candidates who can work from Glasgow or Horsham may be prioritised.
The Role
Reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager Cables, you will lead engineering deliverable assurance, staff assessments, work acquisition, safety design evaluations, project innovation, and compliance with budget and quality standards, while producing design outputs for stakeholders. You will enhance technical credibility with both new and existing clients, ensuring compliance during growth, supporting development among new hires and market entrants, and maintaining our staff’s leading competence in the sector. As a respected professional, you will be committed to nurturing others and improving technical expertise, with support for professional memberships and initiatives like collaboration with Cigre.
Applications welcome from individuals with extensive HV Cable design experience, knowledge of Health and Safety in OHL construction, fluency in English, and the ability to collaborate remotely via MS Teams, with preferable skills in UK and European standards, engineering input for HV Cable activities, tender support, and client engagement.
Typical Responsibilities
- Lead assurance activities on engineering deliverables across our team
- Maintain and lead on HV Cable design staff competence assessments
- Support work acquisition and development activities
- Support safety by design assessments throughout the design process
- Integrate and support the development of innovation within project solutions
- Create design deliverables to confirm the outputs of the engineering studies to internal and external stakeholders
- Ensure, as far as practicable, that all assigned work is carried out in compliance with the agreed budget and programme
- Keep up to date with all technical quality management procedures, developments and specifications related to the discipline work scope
Qualifications
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- ISCED Level 6 Bachelor’s (minimum) or Level 7 Master’s (preferred) Degree in engineering discipline, alternatively, tertiary level education combined with suitable industry experience can be used to demonstrate equivalence
- Chartership or equivalent professional experience
- Extensive post-graduate detailed experience of delivering HV Cable design
- Awareness of key Health and Safety impacts on OHL construction contracts
- Fluent spoken and written English language
- Ability to work as part of a dispersed and remote team and be able to communicate through collaboration software such as Microsoft Teams
- Must have the right to work in the UK currently
Desirable:
- Proven experience in working to British and European design standards and codes
- Experience of providing engineering inputs to HV Cable construction activities, including the planning and delivery of cable construction
- Experience supporting tendering activities
- Experience presenting technical outputs and supporting client engagements
This is a fantastic chance to join a thriving company leading the net zero initiative, with a reliable workstream ahead.
