Electrical Design Engineer - HV

Position: Electrical Design Engineer – HV
Location: Glasgow, Bristol, Manchester, or Aylesford (3 days a week)

MDE Group UK is currently partnering with a market-leading, trusted partner for Mission Critical Facilities, Renewable Developers, and Transmission and Distribution Utilities globally. Their ingenuity is developed and strengthened by 3 decades of experience delivering EPC projects across the world. They have active sites and offices across the EMEA region, where their local expert staff provide engineering solutions to their clients.

They are looking for Electrical Engineers to add to their growing Engineering team and become the driving force behind our high-voltage projects. You’ll be part of the design team for a range of multi-disciplinary Transmission & Distribution projects both domestically and internationally. You can expect variety and travel, visiting client sites to independently discuss, define, and verify client requirements and reflect the output in high-quality proposals and reports.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Overall responsibility for the production of electrical engineering on projects assigned to you.
• Work closely with the civil designer to ensure civil aspects meet electrical equipment requirements.
• Act as a single point of contact (SPOC) with the Utility provider and client owner engineer.
• Manage electrical & civil design logs from Utility provider and client owners engineer.
• Manage design pack submittals to Utility providers and client owners engineer.
• Assist with the preparation of procurement specifications for the main primary plant including HV power transformers, HV circuit breakers, HV switchgear and NERs.
• Review supplier documents and schematics to ensure equipment is compliant with technical specifications and functional specifications.
• Responsible for the preparation of physical HV layouts, electrical systems, secondary control and protection systems and single-line diagrams.
• Responsible for the preparation of HV system studies including protection coordination, voltage regulation, load flow, and fault level reports.
• Attend Utility provider and client owners engineer meetings as required.

SKILLS/REQUIREMENTS:

• Honours Electrical Engineering Degree or similar.
• Minimum 2 Years Experience in a similar role with HV contractor or utility.
• Working knowledge of design software including ETAP, Eplan, AutoCAD, Cymcap, Autodesk, and Advanced Steel.
• People management skills.
• Strong communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Team player who demonstrates a high level of initiative.
• On-site commissioning experience desirable.