Senior HV Electrical Engineer - Substations
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AtkinsRéalis one of the world’s leading providers of engineering professional consulting and support services with offices across Ireland.
About The Business Unit
Our Energy and power Grid division provides an extensive array of services to clients globally, encompassing sectors such as hydropower, nuclear energy, waste management, renewable energy generation, offshore wind, ancillary services, power plants, and transmission & distribution networks. We offer integrated engineering and project management solutions throughout the entire project lifecycle – from initial concept and design, through construction and operations, to decommissioning, repowering, and asset life extension. With a strong emphasis on sustainability and net zero compliance, we are dedicated to partnering with our clients to advance the global energy transition.
Has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our expanding Power Transmission and Distribution team. The successful candidate will be motivated to work on a range of diverse industry leading projects developing innovative solutions for power transmission grid systems and for client transmission and distribution installations ensuring security of electricity supply, developing the integration of renewable energy sources and bringing large power infrastructural plans from concept to delivery stage.
Your role will include working with a range of clients/stakeholders including major utilities and large global demand customers in a rapidly changing energy sector.
The role is a permanent position within our team for an ambitious and enthusiastic Electrical Engineer.
Key Responsibilities
Reporting to the Power Grid team Associate Director, you will be responsible for a range of tasks including:
* Primary plant layout for HV substations.
* Review and assessment of detailed design for compliance with outline design and functional specification, including assessment of proposed amendments/variations.
* Review and assessment of High Voltage equipment procurement specifications and technical schedules.
* Development of commissioning and energisation instructions and review of as built documentation.
* Completion of design review and construction monitoring checklists and input into stage gate review process to provide assessment of compliance of design and construction to relevant.
* Provide responses to technical design authority on complex client engineer queries standards.
* Provide input into or produce aspects of contestable specification packs (schematics, interlocking etc.), review of SLDs, substation layout drawings and provide expertise on HV cables, stations and OHL for Customer projects.
* Equipment specifications for HV Plant and ancillary equipment.
* Providing engineering design input to major electrical power infrastructural development projects through various lifecycle stages from feasibility/front end engineering stages to detailed design/site construction monitoring and commissioning.
* Coordination with client project teams and internal team disciplines within Atkinsréalis including civil, structural, environmental, survey/geotechnical, transport, protection and control and CAD/BIM team.
* Delivering projects in new technologies e.g. energy storage, HVDC systems, smart grid solutions, waste to energy etc.
* Provide professional services to clients in the UK and overseas.
Candidate Specification
* Possess a degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
* Qualified to degree level and will ideally be, or working towards Chartered Engineer status.
* Experience working in the power transmission and distribution industry specifically with Irish major transmission and distribution TSO/DNO Eirgrid and ESB respectively.
* Experience relating to design, delivery and supervision of HV substation solutions (33, 110 to 400kV).
* Experience in site construction and/or testing/commissioning for HV plant systems is a preference.
* Experience in development of specifications for HV AIS/GIS substations and associated primary/secondary equipment.
* Experience of all stages of project lifecycles.
* Experience in applying regulatory and client specific health and safety requirements to HV plant system designs.
* Engineering degree with a minimum of 10 years’ experience in the delivery and/or operation and/or maintenance of secondary systems within the power industry.
* Experience with substation automation, protection and control in on- and offshore applications.
* Extensive experience in design and owners engineering of high-voltage substations and grid development projects.
* Chartered engineer or working towards achieving the chartership with Engineers Ireland.
* Demonstrated success in contributing engineering design expertise to significant electrical power projects.
* Exceptional coordination abilities with multidisciplinary teams.
* Familiarity with emerging technologies in the power sector.
* Capability to mentor and support junior engineers.
* Excellent communication skills and proficiency in delivering professional services to clients both within the UK and internationally.
Additional Highly Desirable Experience
* Experience of working on multi-discipline engineering projects.
* Chartered accreditation or working toward status.
* Consultancy experience.
* Experience of working with Eirgrid and ESB in grid development projects.
* Experience in reviewing review detailed designs & witnessing construction site activities.
About Us
At AtkinsRéalis we put Environment, Sustainability and Health & Safety at the heart of our business strategy. We possess a significant breadth of knowledge and depth of skills and experience for the ultimate benefit of our clients. We build long-term trusted partnerships to create a world where lives are enriched through the implementation of our ideas. Together with our clients, we’re always striving to find better ways to get things done. We are a certified CPD Accredited employer with Engineers Ireland and we were named Engineers Ireland CPD Employer of the year in 2021.
We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and ability.
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