Location
Birmingham, with flexibility to visit site locations and client offices across the UK as required.

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. Join us as a Principal Primary Substation Design Engineer and accelerate your career within our industry-leading Transmissions and Distributions teams. You will work on engineering and construction projects primarily in industrial, transmission/distribution, and renewable sectors. This role involves managing complex practical, regulatory, technical, and commercial issues while collaborating with a broad range of senior stakeholders.

Your responsibilities will include client liaison from initial contact through project delivery, delivering small to medium sized new projects with minimal support, retrofit or network reinforcement projects throughout the project lifecycle, and producing electrical engineering deliverables. You will liaise with CAD technicians and engineers to determine safe, cost-effective substation design solutions, interpret National Grid specifications, DNO regulations, and British/IEC standards, and identify and mitigate health and safety risks.

You will apply CDM designer regulations for HV and EHV projects, coordinate interdisciplinary teams including civils, protection & controls, earthing, and studies teams, and prepare specifications for HV and EHV plant equipment including evaluation of supplier documents and reports. Supporting bid development and related documentation will also be part of your role.

In addition, you will assist in delivering project-related tasks to meet budget, timeframe, and quality targets, promoting all facets of Arcadis services during client interfaces. Your role will be key in maintaining and exceeding client expectations and building networks within the industry. In a rapidly changing sector, you will own your journey, expanding your knowledge and building the right career path for you.

Experience
- Proven experience in HV & EHV Substation design (both AIS & GIS), from 11kV up to including 400kV.
- Experience working as a substation/plant engineer to regulated industry standards.
- Preparation of HV Substation primary plant design deliverables, feasibility studies, reports, programmes, and cost estimating.
- Broad knowledge of transmission technologies and their impact on transmission system operation and performance.
- Experience in LV and power distribution of substations.
- Hands-on experience with Amtech software for LVAC fuse/MCCB selectivity study is desirable.
- Experience working on National Grid, SSEN, SPEN, SPR projects.
- Knowledge of HVDC primary plant is an added advantage.
- Demonstrated success in delivering engineering and/or projects safely to budget, time, and quality standards.
- Ability to work collaboratively with internal and external parties within a strong team culture.
- Experience in writing clear and concise technical documentation.

About you
You are a proactive engineer who can appreciate complex technical, regulatory, and commercial challenges and work constructively with senior stakeholders. You are adaptable and willing to travel across the UK as required. You thrive in a collaborative environment and are committed to delivering high-quality solutions that exceed client expectations.

Qualifications
- Degree or relevant qualification in Electrical Engineering.
- CDAE/LCDAE authorisation preferable.