Senior Electrical Engineer - Substation Design (ireland)

Senior Electrical Engineer - Substation Design (Ireland)

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Job Description

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it's improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We're one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world. Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

AECOM is recruiting for Client Engineers to join our growing T&D team based in the Republic of Ireland. The need arises from AECOM securing a place on a new multi-year framework with EirGrid that will require client engineers at all levels to provide technical services on projects from development to construction.

The T&D department delivers project management, design and owners engineer role for electrical power projects at transmission and distribution voltages across Ireland and across the world. The focus of the team is large-scale grid infrastructure, grid connections, and private networks. Are you ready to join a team of talented and innovative engineers?

Here's what you'll do:

• Developing primary plant layouts for HV substations
• Creating equipment specifications for HV Plant and associated equipment
• Providing engineering design input to major infrastructure projects
• Client engineer/Owners' Engineer role on HV substation/Cable and OHL projects
• Providing HV design input to renewable energy projects e.g., Battery storage, Solar, Hydro and Wind generation
• Providing professional services to clients in Ireland/UK and overseas

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At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customized to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what's possible?

Here's what we're looking for:

• A Degree in Electrical Engineering
• Experience of working on HV projects
• Experience of working with major utilities or developers
• Experience as a Designer or as a Project Engineer
• Experience of developing specifications for substation control systems, transformers, GIS, and AIS switchgear.
• Ability to work flexibly across multiple projects
• Fluency in English
• Full driving License with access to a car as site visits will be required

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Experience of working on multi-discipline engineering projects
• Chartered accreditation or working toward status
• Consultancy experience
• Experience in reviewing detailed designs & witnessing construction site activities
• Candidates without specific HV experience that can demonstrate competency for the key skills required for the role will also be considered

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!