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Sustainability and Infrastructure Consulting Civils Engineer (High Voltage Cable Design) - Arcadis
Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 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.
About the Role
Join Arcadis as a Sustainability and Infrastructure Consulting Civils Engineer with a specialist focus on high voltage (HV) cable design.
You will work across the entire life cycle of cable systems, influencing design, construction, operations, and decommissioning. This crucial responsibility requires analytical rigour, technical expertise, cultural understanding, and clear communication — and you must be an independent thinker who can apply your experience to real-world challenges.
Role Accountabilities
- Create detailed design deliverables for packages of work, including:
- Technical specifications for HV cable systems designs
- Contractual documentation
- Undertake design analysis, review, and approval of others’ work to ensure high-quality deliverables
- Perform concept and/or detailed design for cable system projects from:
- Concept stage → Design → Construction → Operational maintenance → End-of-life works
- Resolve technical problems, provide solutions, advise clients and stakeholders on implementation
- Manage deliverables against timescales and budgets
- Develop personal and company profiles within the client base and industry
- Support project delivery teams from a technical perspective
- Ensure designs are safe, constructible, and compliant with CDM inclusion principles
- Foster design and deliverable innovation, delivering value to both the company and clients
- Lead teams by example, providing:
- Clear direction
- Supportive guidance
- Expert technical advice
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Qualifications & Experience
Essential
- Proven experience in one or more of the following areas:
- AC cable system development, design, manufacture, installation, testing, and commissioning
- Experience across voltage ranges from 11kV to 400kV
- HVDC cable systems in design, installation, and maintenance
- Subsea cable systems, including:
- Export cables
- Inter-array connections
- Cable system design, including:
- Manufacture processes
- Route surveying and evaluation
- Mechanical protection systems
- Installation methodologies
- Good working knowledge of:
- CYMCAP and related cable design and CAD packages
- Chartered MIET membership or ability to progress towards this qualification
- Solid understanding of:
- UK HSE legislation
- Risk and CDM management principles
- Ability to travel to clients’ sites and offices as required.
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Why Join Arcadis?
Be Part of a Movement
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. Our belief? Everyone’s contribution matters.
We are pioneering a skills-based approach, allowing you to: ✔ Harness unique expertise ✔ Map your career trajectory ✔ Maximise collective impact
Every role at Arcadis is an opportunity to:
- Do meaningful work
- Help deliver sustainable solutions
- Make positive changes for a more prosperous planet
Make your mark on: ✔ Your career ✔ Your colleagues ✔ Your clients ✔ Your life ✔ The world around you
Join us. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We believe diversity drives innovation and sustainable success.
At Arcadis, we are unwavering in our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion (ED&I). We hold ourselves to strict accountability and aspire to be an employer of choice.
Our ambition? To foster a workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered.
Our six core ED&I workstreams include:
- Age
- Disability
- Faith
- Gender
- LGBT+
- Race
A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to empowering our expertise and addressing the world’s most pressing challenges.
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