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Project Manager - HV Substations
Project Manager - HV Substations-March 2024
Bristol
Mar 28, 2026
About Project Manager - HV Substations

  Company Description

  Work with Us. Change the World.

  At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

  There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of nearly 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

  We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

  Job Description

  AECOM is recruiting for a Project Manager or Senior Project Manager (HV design) to join our UK Transmission and Distribution (T&D) department. Our T&D team delivers HV design for electrical power projects at transmission and distribution voltage levels. The focus of this role is to project manage pre-construction activities (in some cases construction) for large-scale high voltage infrastructure, grid connections, and private networks at voltage levels normally between 132kV to 400kV. Typical projects include feasibility, optioneering, FEED, detailed design and design assurance on existing or brand-new substations and other infrastructure.

  Our UK&I T&D team is spread across Aberdeen, Ashford, Basingstoke, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Croydon, Dublin, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London Aldgate, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, St Albans. If you are not located near a main office, we will consider a remote-working arrangement.

  Qualifications

  Required/Essential Skills & Experience:

  Understanding of electrical plant items operation and controls and associated systems such as power transformers, reactors, STATCOM, AIS/GIS switchgear, HVDC and HVAC interconnectors, HV Protection & Control.

  Experience managing design teams developing transmission or distribution power projects across the pre-construction project lifecycle, feasibility to detailed design.

  Experience of the development of HV/EHV substations projects including preparation of drawings such as substation overall site layouts including but not limited to design of AIS/GIS switchyard/building, protection and control room/building, MV room, transformers and reactive compensation equipment.

  Minimum 7 years’ experience of working on HV power projects or large construction projects.

  Experience of working with major utilities or developers

  Experience as a designer or as project engineer

  Experience of managing project budgets

  Ability to work flexibly across multiple projects

  Fluency in English

  Desirable Skills & Experience:

  Experience of working on multi-discipline engineering projects

  Experience of the optioneering exercise to select the best substation configuration (voltage levels, installed and firm capacities) as per functional requirements of project.

  Experience of HV/EHV GIS and AIS switchgear design

  Degree in Electrical Engineering

  Chartered accreditation or working toward status

  NEC accredited project manager

  Consultancy experience

  Mentoring junior staff

  Experience of preparing bid proposals

  Additional Information

  About AECOM

  AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $13.1 billion in fiscal year 2022. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

  Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

  You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

  You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

  AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

  Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

  All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

  ReqID: J10101505

  Business Line: Energy

  Business Group: DCS

  Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

  Career Area: Engineering

  Work Location Model: Hybrid

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