Senior Electrical Engineer – Overhead Lines (OHL)

Overview

Join AECOM’s Transmission & Distribution team to lead and support technically challenging overhead line designs up to 400kV. You will work on UK projects, including the Great Grid Upgrade for National Grid, shaping high‑impact infrastructure. You’ll collaborate across disciplines, develop design solutions, and participate in stakeholder engagement and approvals. This role blends engineering excellence with program delivery to enable clean energy connections across England and Wales. Your work will help deliver a safer, more sustainable grid for communities.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working model
• career development opportunities
• AECOM University
• volunteering days
• well-being programs
• competitive compensation and benefits

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support for overhead line design on multi‑discipline projects
• Contribute to PLS‑CADD modelling and line routing
• Perform structural analysis, loading trees, and sag–tension calculations
• Develop design criteria and conductor/insulator selection
• Support feasibility studies and regulatory compliance
• Prepare and check engineering deliverables (designs, reports, drawings)
• Participate in project implementation, planning, and public consultation events
• Contribute to quality checks of drawings and calculations
• Assist in proposal writing with scope, timelines, and budgets
• Engage with clients and stakeholders to present technical solutions
• Support large programmes such as the Great Grid Partnership

Key requirements

• Bachelor in Electrical Engineering
• CEng Chartered Engineer or equivalent (recognized electrical engineering institution)
• Experience delivering UK transmission projects for operators like National Grid, SSE, SPT
• Project experience in overhead line engineering up to 400kV
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• strong communication
• team collaboration
• problem‑solving mindset
• PLS‑CADD modelling
• overhead line design up to 400kV
• structural analysis and loading trees

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