Senior HV Electrical Engineer

Office Locations: Dublin

Employment Type: Permanent

Work Location: Office, Hybrid

Pay: 70k - 80k 

Experience: 5+ years’ HV Design/Consultant experience

Visa: EU passport or Stamp 4 visa required

Our client provide multidiscipline engineering services for the energy industry. This is an excellent opportunity for skilled Senior HV Electrical Engineer to join their team at the Dublin office to play a key role in ensuring the successful delivery of innovative electrical design solutions for some of the most exciting building projects in Ireland, the UK and internationally.

Reporting to the Power team Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for a range of tasks including:

Extensive experience in design and owners engineering of high-voltage substations and grid development projects.

Review HV plant aspects including layouts, earthing, interlocking, busbar calculations, and technical specifications.

Review and assess detailed designs for compliance with outline design and functional specifications, including assessment of proposed amendments or variations.

Provide input into or produce aspects of contestable specification packs (schematics, interlocking, SLDs, substation layout drawings) and provide expertise on HV cables, stations and OHL for customer projects.

Equipment specifications for HV plant and ancillary equipment.

Providing engineering design input to major electrical power infrastructural development projects through all lifecycle stages from feasibility and front‑end engineering to detailed design, site construction monitoring and commissioning.

Delivering projects in new technologies such as energy storage, HVDC systems, smart‑grid solutions, waste‑to‑energy and related emerging areas.

Supporting tendering activities and contributing to technical offers.

Requirements:

Qualified to degree level and will ideally be, or working towards Chartered Engineer status.

5+ years’ HV Design/Consultant experience

Proven experience in HV substation design (132kV-400kV), ideally within Ireland and UK transmission and distribution environments.

High level of Familiarity and experiences with Irish TSO and DNO standards and processes.

Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Demonstrated ability to lead technical workstreams and contribute to strategic project delivery.

Experience relating to design, delivery and supervision of HV substation solutions (110kV to 400kV)

Preferred, but not necessary

Experience in development of specifications for HV AIS/GIS substations and associated primary/secondary equipment.

Experience in design of Overhead Line Systems for transmission networks.

Experience in design of HV cable systems (minimum 110kV).

Experience in site construction and/or testing/commissioning for HV plant systems.

Experience in earthing software design (CDEGs) and system studies/protection co-ordination software (ETAP).

Experience in control and protection systems design.

Masters Degree.

Package:

70k - 80k

25 days holidays

Travel allowance if required

Up to 20 days remote working internationally

Bonus scheme

Career progression in line with published plan and educational support

Year on year salary reviews

Paid Paternity & Maternity Leave

Continuous Professional Development & Pathway to Chartership.

Life Assurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Hybrid Working (remote and office) & Flexible Working Policy

Group pension scheme with employer contribution

Professional Certifications, pathways to become a Chartered Engineer

Contact

Andrew Taylor is the consultant managing this position.

If you are a Engineer and interested roles based in Ireland. You can contact Andrew by e-mail at andrew@jobcontax.com or phone +353-1-5310097 for a confidential chat.

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