**Description** Chart your own course and change the world — with the support of people whose interests are aligned with yours. At Burns & McDonnell, opportunity is waiting. We’re looking for people with big ideas and an entrepreneurial mindset. It’s those kinds of people who’ve helped us grow from a small consulting business back in 1898 to a global leader in engineering, architecture and construction solutions. Today, we’re a thriving company with more than 10,000 professionals working in 55 offices worldwide and recognised as a leader in Transmission & Distribution services. + Being a senior technical authority on substations primary engineering, as it relates to power T&D infrastructure. + Undertaking senior technical roles on project specific multi-disciplinary engineering teams. + Be a lead technical person for substations primary engineering work packages relating to electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure. + Where appropriate and required, Contractor Design Approval Engineer (CDAE), as defined by National Grid’s procedures, or equivalent role as defined by other clients. + Providing technical leadership of engineering input to bids and work winning for the discipline. + Act as technical leader in T&D infrastructure substations primary design and coordinate with relevant professional bodies and industry groups. Maintain Continued Professional Development (CPD). + Provide strong but supportive general personnel management of line reports, with emphasis on supporting continued development, providing technical guidance, and establishing training needs. + Providing technical leadership of engineering input to bids and work winning for the discipline. + Growing and enhancing the substations primary section engineering capability, aligning it to the UK business. + Technical development, competence management and career path support within the substations primary section. + Assume recruitment responsibility, reviewing CVs, interviewing, preparing recruitment documentation and on-boarding new recruits into the UK substations design team along with the HV Plant section manager. + Leadership of the technical quality of outputs for the substations primary design team. Ensuring that the design meets customer standards, specification, Eurocodes, British Standards and good industry practice standards. + Provide technical leadership and support to the Burns & McDonnell Substations team based in BMI, Mumbai, India. To include training, competence management, career development and capability assessments in support of BMI substations primary lead. + Supporting the BMI substations primary department manager with recruitment of team members based in Mumbai. Define requirements, reviewing CVs, interviewing, and supporting on-boarding new recruits into the BMI substations primary team. + Lead innovation initiatives within the substations primary design/delivery team improving methods of working to improve safety, reduce design costs, construction costs/time and improving efficiency. + Support the substations section manager to monitor the performance of staff through performance reviews and lead performance management where required. + Understand, maintain and apply company QA policy and procedures. Ensure corrective action in respect of products, services and the quality system is effective. + Drive the introduction of advanced techniques for design delivery for your discipline, resulting in the development of new or improved working methods within the HV Plant team. + Undertake technical quality assurance reviews and provide design approval/sign-off, as required, on substations primary engineering designs. + Drive ‘Safety by Design’ approach on all projects, at all times. + Support nurturing of a safety and technical excellence culture through emphasis on staff competence, diligence, and responsible attitude. + Understanding wider industry best practices and client technical standards/procedures for construction, operations & maintenance, and decommissioning, in order to drive safety, constructability, and operability throughout whole asset lifecycles. + Maintain project compliance to Burns & McDonnell’s UK Integrated Management System. + Be an ambassador for Burns & McDonnell at all times through acting in accordance with expected high ethical and moral standards, and in adherence to Burns & McDonnell code of conduct. + Identifying new skills and competencies required within the Burns & McDonnell team to meet business needs and actively supporting development and recruitment of talent, including candidate interviewing. + Advance and develop department tools and workflows to increase efficiency of designs, specification development, and project execution. + Undertake other duties and responsibilities as may reasonably be asked of this position by senior management. **Qualifications** + Bachelor’s degree in mechanical / electrical engineering, from an accredited institution. + Minimum of 10 years of substations primary design experience in high voltage substation design. + Professional registration as a chartered engineer, or working towards. + Membership of a relevant professional engineering institution (e.g. IET, IMechE, IEEE) + Relevant Health & Safety qualification (e.g. IOSH Managing Safely, SMSTS, NEBOSH) Desirable + Experience fulfilling the role of Contractor Design Approval Engineer (CDAE). + Formal training in CDM 2015, Temporary Works, and Impressed Voltages. + Understanding of the requirements of relevant UK Health & Safety legislation relating to design and construction work in the electricity supply industry. + Understanding of the requirements of relevant UK Environmental and waste management legislation. + Understanding of current Construction (Design & Management) Regulations, and experience of discharging all required duties of the CDM Principal Designer representative. + Good knowledge of National Grid’s transmission procedures. + Thorough knowledge and experience applying National Grids technical specification, technical guidance notes, and design handbooks relating to substations primary engineering. + IT literate, with good knowledge of using Microsoft Office applications. + Excellent written & verbal communication skills. + Strong persuasion and negotiation skills with clients and employees. + Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. + Ability to deal effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders across clients, industry, government and public. + Able to manage tasks on multiple projects and conflicting deadlines. + Able to work autonomously and/or as part of a project team. + Pro-active in building knowledge and understanding of the electricity transmission and distribution industry. + Capability to coach and develop the team. **Job** Electrical Engineering **Primary Location** GB-Birmingham UK-Birmingham **Schedule:** Full-time **Travel:** Yes, 10 % of the Time **Req ID:** 252425 **Job Hire Type** Experienced #LI-JA #UKO N/A