Find your Superpower at National Grid with this excellent opportunity to work at the forefront of the energy sector, delivering unprecedented projects as part of the Net Zero challenge.
As a HV Design Engineer - Assurance, you will be responsible for the review and assurance of designs on critical national infrastructure projects across the whole lifecycle from development through to delivery. As a key signatory for system design specifications, you’ll drive the design assurance on all aspects of network schemes between 400kV and 33kV, with emphasis on transmission level voltages from 132kV.
You’ll provide technical guidance and support to project teams, offering expertise in project options analysis, technical tender reviews, and Design Assurance activities. Collaborate with colleagues to identify and implement updates to procedures, evaluate technical solutions, and support commissioning teams. Essentially you will ensure the projects are delivered to specification in accordance with National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) processes and procedures that deliver the business’ regulatory, stakeholder and customer commitments.
The ideal candidate will have specifically designed/reviewed but not limited to areas like equipment layouts, earthing, maintenance access and interlocking on high voltage equipment such as Switchgear (Circuit Breakers, Earth Switches, Disconnectors, Instrument transformers (Current/Voltage), Surge arrestors, Transformers (Super grid Tx, Reactors (Shunt/Series), Quad Booster Tx, Earthing and auxiliary Transformers) Busbars, post insulators etc, seamlessly integrating High Voltage Plant into the Electricity Transmission system.