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Senior HV Electrical Engineer

Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Overview

This is an excellent opportunity for skilled Senior HV Electrical Engineer to join our team at our 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.

Your role will include working with a range of clients/stakeholders including major utilities and large global demand customers in a rapidly changing energy sector.

Your role

The role is a permanent position within our team for an ambitious and enthusiastic Electrical Engineer. 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.
Cities & development Engineering

Location

Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Job Type

Full time

Ref

R-158440

Salary range

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Kaushik Sharma

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Kaushik Sharma

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About you

  • Qualified to degree level and will ideally be, or working towards Chartered Engineer status.
  • 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.
Why choose AtkinsRéalis?

Why choose AtkinsRéalis?

Wherever you are in your career – and whoever you are – AtkinsRéalis is for you. Here, support and collaboration are a vibrant part of a culture that lets you choose where – and how far – your career can go. Take on projects that push boundaries and drive sustainable impact, surrounded by colleagues who believe there's no limit to how brilliant you can be. It's time to join a like-minded team where you'll be rewarded, supported, and free to be your kind of brilliant.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's'infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Additional information

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.

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