T&D Manager – Primary Substations – Primary Substations

Job Description

T&D Manager- Primary High Voltage Substations | AECOM

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at AECOM, with a hybrid work model. AECOM is a global infrastructure consulting firm that designs, plans, and delivers projects transforming commutes, powering communities, and providing access to essential services. This role is crucial for leading the technical design and delivery of high-voltage substation infrastructure, ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient electrical grid solutions for future generations.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid

• Team: Growing Transmission & Distribution team
• Mission: Provide strategic technical oversight and leadership for the design and delivery of HV primary systems for substations, ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient technical solutions.
• Tech Stack: CDEGS, CYMCAP, Revit, AutoCAD

What You’ll Actually Do
• Technical Design Leadership: Provide strategic technical oversight and guidance for the design of HV primary systems for AIS and GIS substations, including equipment layouts, busbar schemes, and HV cable design, ensuring technical consistency and quality across projects.
• Engineering Discipline Coordination: Act as the senior technical authority for primary substation engineering, ensuring comprehensive coordination between primary, secondary, civil, structural, and commissioning disciplines, and defining engineering strategies and scopes.
• Design Deliverable Management: Oversee the development and review of critical primary design deliverables, including substation general arrangements, busbar configurations and calculations, electrical clearances, insulation coordination, short-circuit calculations, and earthing system designs.
• Technical Risk & Assurance: Ensure alignment between primary design, protection philosophy, and network performance requirements, while identifying technical risks and opportunities for design optimisation to improve reliability, operability, constructability, and lifecycle performance.
• Construction & Commissioning Support: Provide senior engineering support throughout construction, installation, testing, and commissioning phases, reviewing and guiding the resolution of complex site queries and technical deviations to ensure designs comply with specifications and safety standards.
• Team Leadership & Development: Lead and mentor teams of primary substation engineers, supporting their professional development, technical growth, and knowledge sharing to foster a collaborative engineering culture and ensure high technical standards.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering; Associate Director level leadership for primary substations.
• Experience: 12-15+ years of experience in HV primary substation engineering, with a proven track record of delivering large transmission or distribution substation projects across multiple phases from concept to construction support, including leading engineering teams or technical disciplines.
• Skills: Strong expertise in HV/EHV substation design (AIS/GIS), busbar configurations and equipment layouts, insulation coordination, electrical clearances, short-circuit calculations, equipment rating verification, busbar and conductor sizing (thermal and short-circuit), mechanical and electrodynamic force calculations, and earthing and grounding system design.
• Bonus: Experience working on UK transmission or distribution substation projects, exposure to National Grid standards and technical specifications, experience with EHV substations (220kV-400kV), Chartered Engineer (CEng) or equivalent professional certification, or experience supporting construction, commissioning, or site engineering activities.