Civil Design / Owner’s Engineer NEW

Job description

Base Location: Reading, Havant, New Forest, Perth, Glasgow, Inverness. You’ll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of these locations.

Salary: £57,150 – £68,295 (depending on skills and experience) + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

The role

Due to continued growth, we are looking for a Civil Engineer to join our Large Capital Delivery’s Engineering Design and Consent Team. The Engineering Design and Consent Team carry out the feasibility and detail design work for the capital replacement & reinforcement of new and existing SSEN assets, to ensure the electricity network infrastructure is ready for NetZero. Our responsibility is to respond to challenging changes in our licence obligations, and growing levels of competition, with an annual budget in the region of £300M.

As the Civil Design/Owners Engineer, you will be responsible for supporting the civil design consultants, contract partners and SSEN Design Engineers. You will assist in designing and managing the civil elements of projects from initial high-level scope, through detailed design in to construction. You will work as part of a SSEN team supporting the development of these value engineered designs in a high quality, timely, cost effective, safe and efficient manner.

You will

• Develop detailed project designs that can be consented and safely constructed in compliance with SSEN standards and specifications.
• Review or verifying design calculations, checking and approving designs to ensure the most appropriate and cost-effective solutions are selected to meet customer and regulatory requirements.
• Support the team by providing engineering or technical advice relating to the project designs.
• Support the Technical Authority team in the development SSEN standards and specifications.
• Assist with Development and Innovation of new ways of working.

You have

• A good practical understanding of Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (2015) and knowledge of the Duty holders’ responsibilities.
• A qualification (minimum of HNC level) in a relevant discipline or have demonstrable experience in a similar role.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of power system substation design and operation up to 132kV.
• An understanding of structural engineering, reinforced concrete structures, buildings, foundations, roads and pavements, drainage, flooding.
• A knowledge of Project Management and MS Office methodology would be advantageous.