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Are you ready to be part of a dynamic team of engineering professionals dedicated to shaping the future of energy infrastructure?
The Transmission & Distribution (T&D) Engineering team at AECOM offers comprehensive services from conceptual design to Power Systems Analysis, Cabling, Substation design, Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure, System Balancing and Compensation, Protection Systems, SCADA, Communications, Converter Station Design, HVDC Systems, and Interconnectors, including international links.
Join us in working on the UK's most transformative T&D initiative - National Grid's Great Grid Upgrade. AECOM, in collaboration with its joint venture partner, has been selected as design and consenting service partners for the UK's National Grid’s Great Grid Partnership, a £9bn project aimed at connecting clean energy to households and businesses across England and Wales by 2030. Be a vital contributor to this remarkable venture.
Your Role:
As a pivotal senior member of our Transmission & Distribution team, you will lead and engage with clients to deliver technically sophisticated overhead line design projects.
Your main responsibility as Principal Overhead Line Engineer will be to provide technical guidance and leadership for overhead lines teams involved in transmission projects, focusing on overhead transmission lines up to 400kV.
- Deliver technical support and lead the team in the design of overhead lines for complex multi-discipline projects.
- Utilize your technical expertise to contribute to bids and proposals and represent the company in client meetings as Principal Engineer, applying your extensive experience to a variety of challenging projects.
- Assume complete responsibility for the project scope and technical execution of overhead line works.
- Provide expert technical evaluations and problem-solving solutions to team members.
- Assist in drafting proposals, detailing project timelines, resources, budgets, objectives, and goals.
- Contribute technical support throughout project implementation, statutory planning, and public consultation events.
- Oversee design activities associated with overhead lines, including PLS-CADD modelling, line routing, structural analysis and loading trees, developing design criteria, sag-tension calculations, insulator/conductor blowout, swing angle, damper system recommendations, structural spotting, clearance reports, and conductor/insulator selection.
- Conduct feasibility studies, assess conductor thermal ratings, and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
- Perform studies to identify...

