Principal Primary Engineer - HV Substations

This position offers the chance to provide technical leadership and authority across major HV substation and network infrastructure projects, ensuring high standards of design, safety, and reliability.

As a trusted technical expert, you will be driving engineering excellence, managing key risks, and influencing strategic decisions across the project lifecycle.

• Oversee and review design outputs prepared by internal or external design partners, ensuring compliance with performance, safety, and regulatory requirements.
• Identify, assess, and manage engineering and project risks, ensuring appropriate mitigation strategies are in place.
• Mentor and provide guidance to engineers, promoting technical excellence and professional growth within the team.
• Provide early input into project scoping, feasibility, and conceptual design phases to ensure alignment with strategic, technical, and operational objectives.
• Drive technical decision-making, design direction, and standards application across internal and external project teams.
• Lead stakeholder engagement with internal engineering, asset management, and delivery teams to ensure technical integrity and constructability.
• Act as technical authority for all primary engineering aspects across HV substation and network projects.
• Support innovation, optimisation, and continuous improvement in substation design and delivery processes.

• Extensive experience in primary design and engineering for HV substations.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Experience working across the full project lifecycle, including concept, feasibility, and detailed design phases.
• Strong understanding of substation systems including layout design, equipment specification, and integration with secondary systems.
• Demonstrated experience in stakeholder and risk management, with the ability to influence technical and commercial outcomes at senior levels.
• Familiarity with standards, codes, and regulatory frameworks relevant to high-voltage transmission and distribution networks.
• Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status or working towards it highly regarded.
• Proven capability in acting as a technical authority or leading engineering governance within major power infrastructure or utility environments.