Principal/Associate Director Protection and Control (P&C) Engineer

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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.

Our Energy Business Unit

Enabling the energy transition through innovation and sustainability.

AECOM's Energy Business Unit houses three specialised practices - nuclear, renewables, and transmission & distribution. Each practice plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of energy, offering innovative solutions that balance efficiency, reliability, and sustainability.

Transmission and Distribution

We have a tremendously challenging programme in front of us in the run-up to achieving 2030 net zero targets. New overhead lines, underground cables, substations, battery storage and subsea links are all needed - and quickly. AECOM Transmission and Distribution is currently supporting the network development which will underpin grid modernisation. Our experts are involved at all stages of grid modernisation - and so can you be if you join us.

Location

Our UK&I T&D team is spread across Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, and Glasgow. If you are not located near a main office, we will consider a remote-working arrangement.

Job Description

What your new role will entail:

We are recruiting for a Principal/Associate Director Protection & Control Engineer to join our growing electricity Transmission & Distribution team.The focus of the team is large-scale HV grid infrastructure, grid connections, and private networks, particularly in projects where renewable energy, resilience, energy efficiency, and carbon reduction can support global efforts to combat climate change. The team delivers management, FEED design of electrical power projects at transmission voltages ranging from 132kV to 400kV. The role requires P&C engineering knowledge and skills, with proven experience in the design and specification (including calculation of settings) of equipment used in electrical networks and renewable generation.

You will need to have strong experience in working with transmission voltages 275kV/400kV and will probably have a consulting, utility, renewable generation or OEM background.

Being part of the team:

Committed to addressing the complete spectrum of energy challenges, we offer expertise in the following sectors: renewable energy (wind and solar), hydropower, bio-energy (including energy from waste), energy efficiency and carbon management, thermal power generation, nuclear power and transmission and distribution.

The Transmission & Distribution (T&D) Engineering team provides a range of services from the initial concept through High Voltage 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.

We provide development, design, maintenance and project management for all services and comply with client and other stakeholder's quality, technical, commercial, safety and environmental requirements.

The work typically comes from:

• Large projects and frameworks with transmission network operators mostly in UK.
• Client and owners engineer role on construction of HV infrastructure.
• Connections of renewable generation and hyperscale data centres.
• Internal AECOM clients delivering large industrial and electrification projects.

Working to modernise the UK's Energy Infrastructure

AECOM has been recently appointed to provide design and consenting services for the UK's National Grid's Great Grid Program, in a joint venture with Arup. This £9bn initiative aims to enhance the electricity transmission network, ensuring integration of renewable energy sources, including offshore wind farms, into the grid by 2030, which will also support future projects beyond 2030. The project focuses on upgrading infrastructure to meet future energy demands, reduce fossil fuel dependency, and support the UK's net zero emissions target.

Read more about this exciting programme here

Qualifications

Here's what we will need from you:

• An electrical/electronic/power engineering or similar qualification, such as an HNC, HND, BSc/BEng and/or an MSc/Meng.
• Knowledge of transmission (National Grid or SSE) HV design process and related project experience.
• Extensive experience (app. 8 years) in P&C FEED or detailed design of high voltage installations (132kV to 400kV).
• Experience designing the HV infrastructure across the full project lifecycle from feasibility to detailed design.
• Good team player and have a client-focused mindset customer facing skills.
• Ability to work flexibly across multiple projects.

Technical expertise:

• Project Development/Pre-construction: Development of optimum P&C solutions for the various Transmission & Distribution clients. Development of specifications with technology-specific specialists and external project partners. Tender evaluations. Technical assessment and Design Assurance Design input to consenting team, converter, civil, and marine. Participate in design meetings.
• Tender: Tender specification development. Design assurance of tender return documentation. Design assurance during tender evaluation. Supplier meetings.
• Construction: Design Assurance - Reviewing supplier technical designs. Manufacturing assurance audits that manufacturing is following technical design, attending FAT. Commissioning support - Fault resolution support.

Additional Information

You can learn more about us here: 2023 AECOM Candidate Brochure (adobe.com)

What We Offer

We will give you 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 culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - 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.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

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.

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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 culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - 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 and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. 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.

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

ReqID: J10109563

Business Line: Energy

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Engineering

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