Lead HV Substation Primary Plant Engineer

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. 

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?

Are you an experienced Lead HV Substation Primary Plant Engineer  with experience in CDAE for National Grid projects, looking to lead innovative projects. This is a hybrid role, with occasional meetings at our offices in Solihull, Birmingham.

Join our dynamic Transmission Design Team, delivering innovative design solutions for major UK clients including NG, SSE, SPEN, and DNOs nationwide.

Are you ready to take ownership as the primary technical contact for substation design on major infrastructure projects?

If so, your role could include:

• Leading the design development of substation systems from concept to delivery, including primary, earthing, and secondary systems
• Acting as the go-to expert for design, project, and site engineers, as well as bid teams and clients
• Collaborating with the Design Delivery Manager and senior engineers to ensure projects meet programme and budget targets
• Providing technical assurance and ensuring alignment with industry standards and client expectations

What you’ll bring

• Experienced in the role of HV CDAE on National Grid projects.
• B.Eng or BSc in Electrical and/or Electronic Engineering, with honours; or HND plus relevant experience
• Sufficient experience on substation electrical design with considerable knowledge of National Grid specifications, British Standards, and other UK TNO and DNO design standards
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a Power Transmission & Distribution sector or similar
• Have the ability to self-learn the use of any engineering software relevant to substation electrical design
• Knowledge (preview drawings as a minimum) in using 2D CAD software (ideally Autodesk products)

What’s in it for you?

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  
• Company car/car allowance and fuel card for business use
  
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you and your family
  
• Disrectionary Bonus Scheme
  
• Matched or contributory pension scheme
  
• Life Assurance
  
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave & more. 

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’re 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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