Senior/Principal Engineer HV Substation Design (UK/Ireland/NI wide)

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Our UK&I Transmission and Distribution (T&D) team is spread across multiple offices in UK and Ireland, with established offices in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick as well as Belfast and Londonderry in (NI). If you are not located near the main office in Dublin, we will consider a remote-working arrangement.

The Team:

AECOM is recruiting for Senior or Principal level Engineer to join our growing T&D team based in the Republic of Ireland. The need arises from major growth in our work for traditional and non-traditional end-markets including the connection renewable generation to the transmission system to meet the government’s 2030 targets and the connection of hyperscale data centres to the transmission system.

The Role:

We are looking for a Senior/Principal  Engineer with experience in HV substation design to join our Irish T&D department. The T&D department delivers project management, design and owners engineer role for electrical power projects at transmission and distribution voltages across Ireland and across the world. The focus of the team is large-scale grid infrastructure, grid connections, and private networks. The work can be varied and there will be a lot of opportunity to learn in the role. Some of the tasks that might be required are listed below:Design of new transmission substations on green field sitesFeasibility studies and design of upgrades to existing transmission infrastructureDetailed HV cable design and earthing studiesOwners engineer role including site attendance supervision for substation constructionPreparing planning applications for transmission projectsThe work typically comes from:Large projects and frameworks with transmission network operators mostly in Ireland but also in UK, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East.  Client and owners engineer role on construction of HV infrastructure Connection of renewable generation and major grid connected demand loads such as hyperscale data centres