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About the Role

The Energy Unit, specifically the Transmission & Distribution division are recruiting for Electrical Engineers to join our team. This role is to support client projects from inception and master planning through concept and detailed design stages all the way to commissioning and final completion. Our work is varied and spans across all forms of Renewable Power Generation, Network Design, Grid Connections, Net Zero Carbon aspirations and Estate Management Planning. We also provide detailed design solutions in the renewables, aviation, data centre, healthcare, nuclear and defence sectors.

Responsibilities

Provide technical solutions and project leadership in the production of electrical designs for major electrical and multi-disciplinary infrastructure works.
Become familiar with company procedures.
Provide technical expertise and contributions to bids and proposals.
Manage project planning, project delivery, and execution to a high standard.
Manage engineering projects and deliverables, ensuring they meet client expectations and applicable statutory and regulatory specifications, on time and within budget.
Support and contribute to the development of junior staff and graduates.
Ensure project deliverables and scope are clear.
Understand procurement and contract awards such as NEC PSC.
Provide LV and MV network configuration and advice on resilience issues.
Input into network configuration and understanding of operations scenarios and impacts.
Perform LV and MV (up to 33kV) network design.
Perform LV and MV cable sizing, routing and termination.
Perform LV and MV substation design layouts.
Define LV and MV substation main equipment operations and specifications.
Understand and interpret client standards and DNO regulations and standards.
Perform earthing designs, including design, modelling, and calculations for step, touch, and transfer potential.
Define protection requirements.
Define arc flash requirements.
Review design submissions within the team against client scope.

Requirements

Professionally qualified in a relevant engineering discipline.
Proven skills, capabilities, and experience in the sector areas mentioned.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.
Ability to coordinate with multi-disciplines both internal and external.
Some experience within electrical project engineering, with focus on installations from LV up to 11kV / 33kV.
Competent in the use of MS packages.
Awareness of and ability to contribute to bid procedures and internal governance.
Awareness of procurement, construction, and commissioning activities.
Ability to travel in the UK and overseas if required.
Must have initiative, self-motivation, and the confidence to make decisions.

Skills

Electrical designs
Project leadership
Bid and proposal contributions
Project planning
Project delivery
Project execution
Engineering project management
Procurement and contract awards (NEC PSC)
LV and MV network configuration
Resilience issues
Network configuration
Operations scenarios and impacts
LV and MV (up to 33kV) network design
LV and MV cable sizing, routing and termination
LV and MV substation design layouts
LV and MV substation main equipment operations and specifications
Client standards interpretation
DNO regulations and standards interpretation
Earthing designs
Design modelling
Design calculations
Step potential calculation
Touch potential calculation
Transfer potential calculation
Protection requirements
Arc flash requirements
Design submission review
MS packages
Procurement activities
Construction activities
Commissioning activities

Location

Glasgow
Brighton
Newcastle
York
Croydon

Work Type

Hybrid working

Experience Level

Chartered
Proven skills, capabilities and experience
Some experience within electrical project engineering

Education Level

Professionally qualified in a relevant engineering discipline

Benefits

Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
Annual bonus schemes.
A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.
Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
Shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
Primary annual professional institution subscription.
A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.
Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

About the Company

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.
We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve.
Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do.
With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.
Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best.
As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.
Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.
The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across several sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation and transmission & distribution networks.
Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle – from concept and design to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension.
Together with our clients, we’re helping to deliver the energy transition globally.

Equal Opportunity

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve.
We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all.
We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.