Senior Design Engineer - Civil

Job Summary

Senior Civil Design Engineer: To enable us to fully deliver our projects, we are looking for an innovative and passionate civil senior substation engineer to work client side on projects from initial concept and feasibility through to procurement specification, construction and commissioning. The successful candidate will have the chance to work on a wide variety of EHV (up to 400kV) substation design aspects, and our project program facilitates the roll-out of substation construction works from 11kV up to 400kV, along with providing support for increasing customer connection activity.

Responsibilities

• Your projects will include: HVAC substation primary and secondary design and HVDC offshore windfarm projects.
• Perform work in accordance with the agreed budget and schedule with little supervision.
• Independently perform the tasks necessary to complete primary design elements for engineering works to standard and compliant regulations.
• Coordinate across project disciplines, external subcontractors and remote offices such that technical risks are identified and mitigated, and all statutory and regulatory requirements are met.

Requirements

• Working experience with DNO, BS/IEC/IEEE standards.
• Create and manage project deliverables.
• Rebar design and calculations.
• Structural and foundation design calculations.
• Documents management system.
• Coordination with other disciplines where required.
• Blast wall calculations.
• Recommending design solutions.
• Building design.
• Fence design and recommendation.
• Checking vendor or subcontractor design.

Qualifications / Experience

• HNC level qualification in Civil Engineering with proven experience in a related engineering discipline.
• The ability to technically assess and solve issues, with a thorough understanding of the technical requirements of the civil aspects of the projects.
• Experience in the civil design, construction of transmission voltage plant and equipment is advantageous.
• Ideally experience in preparing and manipulating engineering drawings, using computer-aided design tools (e.g. AutoCAD) as this is the main tool we use.
• A full UK driving licence and be willing to travel and participate in site meetings throughout the UK when necessary.
• Experience working with different DNOs.

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