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Job Description
AECOM is recruiting for a Project Manager or Senior Project Manager (HV design) to join our UK Transmission and Distribution (T&D) department. Our T&D team delivers HV design for electrical power projects at transmission and distribution voltage levels. The focus of this role is to project manage pre-construction activities (in some cases construction) for large-scale high voltage infrastructure, grid connections, and private networks at voltage levels normally between 132kV to 400kV. Typical projects include feasibility, optioneering, FEED, detailed design and design assurance on existing or brand-new substations and other infrastructure.
Our UK&I T&D team is spread across Aberdeen, Ashford, Basingstoke, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Croydon, Dublin, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London Aldgate, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, St Albans. If you are not located near a main office, we will consider a remote-working arrangement.
Qualifications
Required/Essential Skills & Experience:
- Understanding of electrical plant items operation and controls and associated systems such as power transformers, reactors, STATCOM, AIS/GIS switchgear, HVDC and HVAC interconnectors, HV Protection & Control.
- Experience managing design teams developing transmission or distribution power projects across the pre-construction project lifecycle, feasibility to detailed design.
- Experience of the development of HV/EHV substations projects including preparation of drawings such as substation overall site layouts including but not limited to design of AIS/GIS switchyard/building, protection and control room/building, MV room, transformers and reactive compensation equipment.
- Minimum 7 years’ experience of working on HV power projects or large construction projects.
- Experience of working with major utilities or developers
- Experience as a designer or as project engineer
- Experience of managing project budgets
- Ability to work flexibly across multiple projects
- Fluency in English
Desirable Skills & Experience:
- Experience of working on multi-discipline engineering projects
- Experience of the optioneering exercise to select the best substation configuration (voltage levels, installed and firm capacities) as per functional requirements of project.
- Experience of HV/EHV GIS and AIS switchgear design
- Degree in Electrical Engineering
- Chartered accreditation or working toward status
- NEC accredited project manager
- Consultancy experience
- Mentoring junior staff
- Experience of preparing bid proposals
Additional Information
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 $13.1 billion in fiscal year 2022. 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.
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