Senior 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?

• Lead the development of design solutions, including detailed calculations, drawings, reports and assessments.
• Undertake and check technical work, ensuring designs comply with relevant standards, specifications and client requirements.
• Provide expert technical input on complex engineering issues and support resolution of design challenges.
• Ensure design deliverables are completed to a high professional standard and within required timescales.
• Carry out site surveys, inspections and investigations to inform design development. 
• Interpret site data, constraints and conditions to ensure robust design solutions.
• Engage with delivery or subcontract teams during site activities where design input is required.
• Collaborate with internal teams including engineers, technicians, project managers and delivery colleagues to ensure coordinated and integrated design outputs.
• Liaise with clients, external stakeholders and supply chain partners to support design discussions, approvals and technical clarifications.
  
• Ensure all design outputs comply with organisational quality standards, statutory requirements and safety obligations. 
• Apply internal governance processes, including design reviews and technical assurance stages.
• Promote continuous improvement and identify opportunities for innovation or enhanced engineering practices.
  

What you’ll bring: 

• Expert understanding of industry standard line design software PLS CADD and TOWER and their interaction with OHL design standards. 
• Have 5 years or more experience in OHL Design.
• Have clear knowledge of different types of overhead line towers, conductors, insulators and fittings. 
• Knowledge of various types of overhead line foundations is desirable.
• 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
• Maintain 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.