Associate Director High Voltage Substation Design

2 Months ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

AECOM is seeking an Associate Director for HV Substation Design to work across the UK. The role involves leading substation technical discussions with clients and internal teams, ensuring project delivery through technical leadership and quality checks. The successful candidate will utilize knowledge of the substation project/asset life-cycle, manage resourcing forecasts and programs, demonstrate commercial awareness for proposal development and cost management, and build client relationships with a client-oriented mindset. The position also emphasizes driving safety in design and mentoring junior staff. The Transmission & Distribution (T&D) Engineering team focuses on HV design for electrical power projects at transmission and distribution voltage levels, primarily for large-scale infrastructure and grid connections between 132 kV to 400 kV.
Must have:
  • Experience with consultancy, contractor, or utility in the energy sector
  • Experience designing HV infrastructure at concept, FEED, and detailed design stages
  • Understanding of electrical AC HV Plant infrastructure and equipment (AIS and GIS)
  • Working knowledge of National Grid standards and specifications
  • Proposal/Bid development experience
Good to have:
  • Client experience with National Grid, SHET, SSE, SPT or any other transmission utility or developer in UK or Ireland
  • Experience of design & site construction review
  • Knowledge and understanding of secondary system design
  • Experience with Control systems, transformers, HVDC systems, interconnectors, HV Protection & Control
  • CDAE / LCDAE approval
Perks:
  • Hybrid work options
  • Flexibility
  • Access to industry-leading technology and thinking
  • Transformational work with big impact
  • Wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs

Job Details

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

About our Team 

The Transmission & Distribution (T&D) Engineering team provides a range of services from the initial concept through Power Systems Analysis, Cabling, Substations, Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure, System Balancing and Compensation, Protection Systems, SCADA, Communications, Converter Station Design, HVDC Systems and Interconnectors including overseas links.

Our T&D team delivers HV design for electrical power projects at transmission and distribution voltage levels. The focus of this role is primary plant design for large-scale infrastructure, grid connections, and private networks at voltage levels normally between 132 kV to 400kV. Typical projects include feasibility, optioneering, FEED, detailed design, and design assurance on existing or new substations and other infrastructure.

Start Here. Grow Here.

Here’s what you’ll do:

  • Lead substation technical discussions with the client and internal multi-disciplinary teams to establish scopes, define interfacing and ensure delivery.
  • Lead the technical delivery with engineering teams by agreeing approach, supporting scope understanding, monitoring progress and quality checking of deliverables prior to issue to client.
  • Utilise knowledge of substation project/asset life-cycle from a design perspective to successfully deliver client projects. 
  • Liaise with the project management team to produce resourcing forecasts and programmes.
  • Demonstrate commercial awareness to carry out proposal development, monitor/manage project costs and enable opportunity identification.
  • Build client relationships, understanding client requirements and perspectives, building trust and adopting a client orientated project delivery mindset.
  • Drive the safety in design ethos within projects.
  • Mentor and develop more junior staff to build team capability and capacity over the medium and long term.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

  • Previous experience with consultancy, contractor, or utility in the energy sector. Client experience with National Grid, SHET, SSE, SPT or any other transmission utility or developer in UK or Ireland.
  • Experience designing HV infrastructure at concept and FEED and detailed design stages.
  • Understanding of electrical AC HV Plant infrastructure and equipment both AIS and GIS.
  • Working knowledge of National Grid standards and specifications
  • Proposal/Bid development experience, including leading multi discipline proposals to completion.
  • Experience of design & site construction review, the role is primary plant focused, but knowledge and understanding of secondary system design will be advantageous.
  • Experience with Control systems, transformers, HVDC systems, interconnectors, HV Protection & Control knowledge and experience would be advantageous.
  • Ideally CDAE / LCDAE approval

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com. At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

Additional Information

Interested in the role or curious about life at AECOM? Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to explore our AECOM voices, employee stories, latest projects, and much more!

For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn (Francesca Siddle) 

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.


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