Location
Central London with hybrid working arrangements including home working, time at Client and Omnia Projects offices, and regular site visits across the North East region. Key office locations include Newcastle, Sunderland, York, Castleford, Hull, Sheffield, Northallerton, and Leeds.

Hours
Full Time - standard working hours with flexibility to accommodate site visits and project demands.

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
As a Project Engineer, you will support the successful delivery of Extra High Voltage (EHV) infrastructure projects across the electricity distribution network. You will manage a portfolio of substation plant replacement, reinforcement, and customer connection schemes, overseeing projects from feasibility and optioneering through design development, construction, commissioning, and final handover. This role combines strong technical engineering knowledge with project delivery skills, offering opportunities to work on complex infrastructure projects at voltage levels from 11kV to 132kV. Key responsibilities include delivering EHV substation projects from concept to completion, coordinating design, procurement, installation, testing, and commissioning activities, managing project programmes, costs, risks, and resources, ensuring compliance with technical standards, safety legislation, CDM requirements and quality processes, interfacing with customers, contractors, suppliers and stakeholders, supporting outage planning and network access arrangements, monitoring project progress, maintaining project documentation and asset records, and contributing to continuous improvement and engineering best practice.

Experience
- Delivering projects within electricity transmission and distribution networks or analogous electrical infrastructure sectors.
- Working knowledge of substation plant and equipment operating at 11kV, 33kV, 66kV, with exposure to 132kV desirable.
- Experience on plant replacement, reinforcement, and customer connection projects.
- Understanding of power transformers, switchgear, protection and control systems, substation primary plant, and associated civil infrastructure.
- Experience with greenfield and brownfield substation projects.
- Knowledge of AIS and GIS substations.
- Managing project costs, programme activities, and stakeholder interfaces.

About you
Organised and proactive with strong technical and project management skills. Able to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders and adapt to a hybrid working environment. Committed to health and safety standards and continuous improvement.

Qualifications
- Degree, HNC or equivalent qualification in Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
- Knowledge of CDM Regulations and health and safety requirements.
- NEBOSH or equivalent qualification desirable.