Senior/Principal Design Engineer - E&P Traction Power

Full Job Description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Given the growth and expansion of our Rail South business area, we are needing a Senior/Principal Design Engineer – E&P Traction Power who will be responsible for providing technical leadership for assigned projects ensuring successful delivery for the mechanical and public health team.

In Engineering, you'll create some of the world’s most iconic and ground-breaking structures and spaces that transform the world around us, from making journeys easier to opening public places that bring people together.

We partner with our clients across the globe to design thriving and connected cities and communities that enable opportunity for all and keep the world moving. Climate change, urbanization and digitization trends are requiring today’s mobility projects and systems to address an evolving set of demands from the world’s growing population. We design connected, sustainable solutions that integrate existing infrastructure with new technologies, and optimize the mobility of people and goods.
 

Role accountabilities:

You will be contributing technical leadership at a subject level (including LV, HV distribution, traction HV systems, Sustainable Technologies, Renewable Energy systems, etc.). The role also covers line management responsibilities for the development and performance management of team members, influence and lead the development and growth through strategic inputs, bringing market intelligence, develop bidding process, skill development, mentoring and bringing required talent and manage the evaluation of technical competence of staff proposed projects and identify specific training or any mentoring needs.

Qualifications & Experience:

•   Competencies of HV traction power and distribution of AC & DC traction power systems. 
•   Experienced E&P CRE with in depth Design management experience on rail projects.
•   Proven ability in delivering to take the role of CRE or CEM on projects and deliver high quality designs on time and to budgetary constraints. 
•   UK Railway experience with an in-depth knowledge of traction power systems and Network Rail’s Grip Design Processes and Procedures on projects.
•   Demonstrated ability in leadership across geographically dispersed teams.
•   Technology enabled and experience of project delivery in 3D BIM environments, including use of common data environments such as ProjectWise.
•   Traction power AC or DC design capabilities and able to take CRE role.
•   Good experience on EMC, Harmonics and HV earthing system.
•   Electrical Power Engineering Degree.
•   Chartered Engineer (CEng) is a plus.
 

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

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We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.