Lead Design Engineer (OHL)

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive. 

Where will you be working?

At M Group Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.

We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.

This role will be within our  Transmission & Renewables team. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity.

What will you be doing?

We're looking for an experienced Lead Design Engineer with proven background in the Overhead Lines sector to join us at M Group Energy!

You'll be leading the OHL design projects ensuring they are delivered on time and within budget. You'll be coordinating multidisciplinary design outputs across engineering, delivery, commercial, and planning teams.

This role will be hybrid to our Nottingham office where our design team are based.

• Coordinate multidisciplinary design outputs across engineering, delivery, commercial, and planning teams.
• Lead or support engagement with clients, consenting authorities, and external partners to secure approvals, resolve queries, and maintain strong technical communication.
• Contribute to planning, scope definition, resource allocation, and risk identification within design workstreams.
• Provide support to the Design Manager and Client in solving issues related to Overhead Lines, perform the calculations and assessment as required in software or by manual calculations.
• To work within established Company policies and procedures.
• Maintain excellent levels of communication throughout the team and the wider business.
• Lead, develop, and review complex engineering designs, calculations, assessments, and technical documentation.
• Provide authoritative technical guidance across the discipline, ensuring compliance with standards, regulations, and client requirements.
• Approve design approaches, calculations, drawings, and technical outputs.
• Identify and resolve complex design issues, propose innovative solutions, and challenge technical assumptions where required.
• Ensure design work meets internal quality procedures, inspection requirements, technical assurance processes, and statutory obligations.
• Conduct or oversee technical checks and reviews to ensure accuracy, safety, and constructability.
• Support continuous improvement, standardisation, and best-practice adoption across the design function
• Oversee or support site surveys, technical investigations, inspections, and field assessments to validate design assumptions.
• Interpret ground, structural, environmental or asset condition data to inform solutions and mitigate project risk.
• Provide specialised technical input during construction phases when required.
• Mentor, support and develop engineers, graduates, apprentices, and technicians, promoting high technical standards and professional growth.
• Provide constructive feedback, coaching, and guidance to support career progression and capability uplift across the team.

What you’ll bring

• Have 8 years or more experience in OHL Design.
• Have experience of leading OHL design projects -At least one project from detailed design to completion of construction and As-built submission.
• Expert understanding of industry standard line design software PLS-CADD and TOWER and their interaction with OHL design standards. 
• Have clear knowledge of different types of overhead line towers, conductors, insulators and fittings. 
• Knowledge of various types of overhead line foundations.
• In depth understanding and experience of delivering various design outputs for construction of overhead line. Some of the examples include line design, clearance investigations, structural analysis, optioneering reports, line profiles, string drawings, schedules and sag tensions etc.
• Have an up-to-date working knowledge of National Grid, SPEN, SSE, BSI, ENA and other relevant industry standards.
• Chartered Engineer of IMechE/ICE/IStructE or working towards chartership is desirable.

What’s in it for you?

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme or car allowance
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

We’re  responsible  and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
We’re  open  and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
We’re  together  and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
We’re  ambitious  and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note:  Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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