QHSE Engineer
Avanceon Middle East & South Asia
Principal Engineer, HV Cable
Egis
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Lead
About the role
- Review and assess HV Cable design submissions, ensuring compliance with National Grid / DNO policies, procedures and engineering standards
- Provide detailed feedback and recommendations to address design gaps, non-compliance, or potential risks
- Approve final designs once all technical, safety, and regulatory requirements are met
- Chair constructability and design review meetings with a variety of stakeholders
- Coordination and technical interface with other engineering disciplines
- Serve as the primary point of contact between National Grid / DNO and Contractors regarding HV Cable design matters
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including asset management, project delivery teams, and other engineering disciplines, to ensure design alignment with project objectives
- Participate in design coordination meetings, workshops, and technical reviews with contractors and suppliers
- Identify potential risks related to safety, reliability, and performance in contractor designs and recommend corrective actions
- Ensure that all designs incorporate appropriate risk mitigation measures, including hazard identification (HAZID) and risk assessments
- Maintain comprehensive records of design submissions, review comments, and approval decisions
- Prepare technical reports and assurance documentation for internal stakeholders and regulatory bodies
- Monitor performance related to design quality and compliance, providing feedback to management as needed
- Work to a structured project design process
Requirements
- HNC or Degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, or a related discipline
- Proven experience in HV Cable project development, constructability, design or technical approval within the Electricity Transmission and/or DNO sector
- Strong knowledge of the UK HV infrastructure, including interfaces and consideration with other disciplines including HV Plant, Civil, OHL and P&C
- Experience of implementing safety by design and CDM awareness
- Experience of working to a structured project design process
- Experience of producing, reviewing and approving designs for National Grid and/or Distribution Network Operator (DNO) projects (desirable)
- Currently or previously held National Grid BP141 Design Assurance Engineer authorisation (desirable)
- Currently or previously nominated as BP137 Contractor Design Approval Engineer on National Grid projects (desirable)
- Chartered Engineer status or working towards CEng accreditation (desirable)
- Must be willing to travel anywhere throughout the UK
