Senior Electrical Engineer - Overhead Lines (OHL)

Overview

Senior OHL Engineer at AECOM leads overhead line design for up to 400kV projects within the Transmission & Distribution team. You will work on high-profile UK projects like the Great Grid Upgrade, delivering technically challenging design work and supporting multi-disciplinary teams. Your role spans feasibility, design development, and client engagement, with a focus on safe, compliant, and efficient transmission solutions. You’ll shape iconic infrastructure while embracing innovation and hybrid working. This is a chance to influence critical energy delivery and drive impactful outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible hybrid working
• career development opportunities
• AECOM University
• volunteering days
• hybrid working model
• well-being programs

Responsibilities

• Provide technical design support for overhead transmission lines up to 400kV
• Contribute to multi-discipline project delivery and complex design tasks
• Assist in proposal writing with timelines, resources, and objectives
• Support project implementation, planning, and public consultation activities
• Lead design activities including PLS-CADD modelling, line routing, structural analysis, sag-tension calculations, and damping system recommendations
• Develop and check engineering deliverables (designs, reports, proposals, drawings)
• Perform internal QA on drawings and calculations
• Support feasibility studies and conductor thermal rating assessments
• Identify and present technically preferred solutions/layouts to clients
• Prepare clearance reports and select conductors/insulators with consideration of standards and regulations

Key requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent (electrical/power engineering preferred)
• CEng Chartered Engineer with recognized electrical engineering institution (e.g., IET)
• Experience delivering UK projects for transmission system operators (National Grid, SSE, SPT)
• Project experience in overhead line engineering up to 400kV
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Collaborative mindset
• Problem-solving and innovative thinking
• PLS-CADD modelling
• Overhead line design for high voltage projects
• Sag-tension calculations

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