Associate Director - Overhead Line Lead (OHL), Transmission & Distribution (T&D)

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Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

Are you ready to join a very experienced, talented and growing Transmission & Distribution practice in the UK & Ireland and develop your skills on transformational work which will make a huge impact towards delivering the energy transition?

Where you can join us in this role

You can be based in any of our collaborative and contemporary offices in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Newcastle, and St Albans.

Here’s what you’ll do:

Your primary focus in the brand-new role of Associate Director – Overhead Line Lead is to provide project technical leadership for the overhead lines teams on transmission projects. This team will work on various projects encompassing overhead transmission lines up to 400kV. You’ll provide technical expertise in bids and proposals and represent the company in client meetings as an Associate Director – Overhead Line, applying your experience and expertise to a range of exciting and interesting projects.

Your role will be varied and interesting, leading the following Overhead Line (OHL) remit:

1. You will provide technical leadership in delivering overhead line design on complex multi-discipline projects.
2. Take full responsibility for project scope, resourcing, technical delivery, and client management for overhead line works within projects.
3. Provide expert technical evaluations and offer problem-solving solutions to different team members. Prepare written proposals outlining all project details, including the timeline, resources, budget, objectives, and goals.
4. Provide the right technical guidance and input throughout the project implementation, statutory planning, and participation in public consultation events.

Technical responsibilities and expertise:

1. Responsible for overseeing engineering and design activities related to the overhead line. This encompasses PLS-CADD modelling, meticulous line routing, comprehensive structural analysis and loading trees, formulation of design criteria, precise sag-tension calculations, insulator/conductor blowout, swing angle, damper system recommendations, strategic structural spotting, thorough clearance reports, and judicious conductor and insulator selection.
2. Undertaking feasibility studies, performing conductor thermal ratings, and ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. Conduct studies to identify a technically preferred solution/layout to present to the client.

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives.

Come grow with us.

At AECOM, you’ll thrive in an inclusive and forward-thinking environment where your contributions are valued.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

1. Professionally qualified CEng Chartered Engineer with a recognised electrical engineering institution (e.g. the IET).
2. A bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent technical discipline, electrical engineering or power engineering.
3. Experience delivering projects for transmission system operators such as National Grid, SSE and SPT in line with each operator’s standards.
4. Project experience in overhead line engineering up to 400kV.
5. Experienced in upgrading work projects such as the utilisation of high-temperature low, low-sag conductors.

In this role you will need to travel from time to time as projects dictate, which we estimate to be circa 10-15% on average.

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities.

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!

Additional Information

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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.

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.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families.