M Group Energy
Lead Civil Substation Designer
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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?
We're looking for a Lead Civil Substation Designer to join our Substations Design team. You must have experience in CDAE for National Grid projects.
- Lead the civil design and delivery of substation projects from feasibility through to commissioning.
- Develop civil engineering solutions including foundations, drainage, GIS buildings, and steel structures.
- Collaborate with project teams, designers, clients, and subcontractors to ensure safe and efficient project delivery.
- Provide constructability input and technical guidance throughout the project lifecycle.
- Oversee and review temporary works designs to ensure compliance and safety.
- Support bid development, tender submissions, and innovation initiatives alongside the Design Manager and Design Lead.
- Produce and review high-quality engineering reports, calculations, specifications, and drawings.
- Ensure designs comply with client requirements, BS standards, Eurocodes, and ENA specifications.
- Act as a Contractor Design Approval Engineer (CDAE), providing design assurance and technical governance.
- Mentor and support junior engineers, contributing to their professional development.
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and help enhance engineering processes and standards.
- Work closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver projects safely, on time, and within budget.
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What You’ll Bring
- Previous experience acting as Contractor Design Approval Engineer (CDAE) or Equivalent Role.
- Professional experience in design and analysis software using STAAD Pro, Tekla Tedds, Autodesk Revit & AutoCAD & Civil 3D, and Tekla Structural Designer.
- Ability to challenge information presented and be prepared for the versatile nature of Civil Substation Design.
- Relevant Electricity Transmission & Distribution Industry Experience.
- Experience in earthworks modelling and creating 3D models of a site to calculate cut and fill volumes and prepare for construction.
What’s in it for you?
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private health care and health care cash plan
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance program
- Life assurance
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
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About Us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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