Principal Design Engineer – England

Job Title: Principal Engineer

Location: Middleton, London and Chelmsford

We are looking to secure the services of an experienced Principal Engineer with a proven track record in substation engineering and project expertise relating to turnkey HV GIS/AIS substations. In this role, you will be embedded into the project team and work in close coordination with the execution and engineering teams.

Key Areas of Responsibility (KARs):

• Coordinate the design team across all disciplines.
• Liaise with the Project Director on engineering budgets and provide forecast cost to complete estimates and associated justification to changes in expenditure.
• Manage the programme and interface with the planning engineers for design.
• Coordinate with the Principal Design Engineer (Lead Engineer) for design submission, design reviews and hazard reviews.
• Coordinate with the Principal Design Engineer (Lead Engineer) forecasts for completion and resource planning.
• Support the Project Director in overall projects’ risk and opportunity assessments and implementation of resulting actions.
• Contribute to the creation of subcontracts/Purchase Orders and manage the subcontractors/suppliers jointly with other involved functions.
• Support the Commercial Manager in contractual and commercial aspects of project engineering (including Customer’s Instruction, Early Warning Notice, Compensation Event ).
• Work with customers to shape and deliver solutions, seeking feedback and innovating with the customer to drive and deliver improvements.

Experience Required:

• Bachelor or master’s in electrical engineering or equivalent.
• Extensive experience in HV substation for utilities.

Competencies/ Skills Required:

• Knowledge of Transmission or Distribution practices (400kV to 11 kV). Knowledge of required NG standards will be considered as a plus.
• Excellent in communication, able to interact with external and internal parties at all levels in a multi-cultural environment.
• Result orientated team player with a proactive approach.
• Capable of working to tight time scales.
• Fluency in English – both written and spoken

Other Position-Specific Characteristics

Working location: office during design phase, regular presence (minimum 60%) on site during construction.

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