Senior OHL Design Engineer

4 weeks ago


Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom UK Power Networks Full time

Job Title: Senior OHL Design Engineer

Job Summary:

UK Power Networks is seeking a Senior OHL Design Engineer to join our team. As a Senior OHL Design Engineer, you will be responsible for producing OHL designs from a scope provided by Project Managers, Customers or the Design Lead and will include project costings to customer requirements for time, quality and budget.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Produce detailed OHL design packages compliant to required technical industry standards.
  • Produce and prepare drawings for GS6 Guidance and Injurious Affection (IA) claims related to any works conducted near UKPN's overhead line assets.
  • Prepare calculations and technical / equipment specification documentation.
  • Execute complex assignments requiring the use of advanced techniques, resulting in the development of new or improved processes, equipment, and technological methods.
  • Undertake a lead role on FEED stage projects, including production of technical reports and presentations.
  • Maintain compliance to CDM Regulations and all other legal and regulatory requirements associated with the nature of substation / P&C and electrical system design.
  • Take a leadership role with the project team, providing direction and leading by example
  • Manage the delivery of projects following Management Systems to meet time, quality, and budgetary and health and safety targets.
  • Overall OHL design with PLS-CADD following BS-EN 50341.
  • Production and checking of detailed drawing for the OHL design.
  • Fulfil the role of Principal Designer for allocated schemes.

Requirements:

  • BEng or BSc in Civil / Structural Engineering with experience in OHL design
  • Chartered engineer or working towards achieving Chartership;
  • Experience in an OHL engineering environment;
  • Experience in either CAD packages such, AutoCAD or Microstation or any other drafting software;
  • Knowledge of standard industry software PLS CADD & Tower is necessary
  • Experience with the British, the European and ENA Standards and technical specifications of utility providers – especially UK Power Networks;
  • Knowledge of Microsoft desktop applications, in particular: Word, Excel, Project and PowerPoint;
  • Work with external engineering organisations and customers / partners representing UKPN to best effect;
  • Learn new skills and transfer existing skills to overcome new challenges;
  • A good level of business, environmental, safety, financial, and regulatory awareness;
  • A good safety culture and sound understanding of Construction Design and Management (CDM) Regulations and their application in this role including IOSH trained;
  • Must be competent at creating and laying out quality drawings that can be constructed and fabricated;
  • Capable to approve the designs

Working Arrangements:

Largely desk-based, the post also requires you to visit operational sites, construction sites, site meetings, manufactures meetings (at their premises) and internal review meetings.

UK Power Networks is committed to a policy of equality in its employment practices and values a workforce that is representative of the customers we serve and the communities in which we work. We consider our people to be crucial to achieving success. We believe that it is important for our employees to strike a sensible balance between work and life outside work and will consider requests for working arrangements under the Work-Life Solutions process.

UK Power Networks is committed to securing the highest standards of health and safety at work and of care for the environment. You will have an appropriate level of understanding of the arrangements for health, safety and the environment that apply to this business and are required for this opening.

Health & Safety Responsibilities:

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.

Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.



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