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Graduate Electrical Engineer (Transmission & Distribution) - Dublin, Ireland - June 25 start
Client:
AECOM
Location:
Dublin, Ireland
Job Category:
Technical
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
REF39038G
Job Views:
60
Posted:
22.01.2025
Expiry Date:
08.03.2025
Job Description:
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
Our Transmission and Distribution team are currently seeking graduates to work in our Dublin office from June 25 onwards.
About our Team
Committed to addressing the complete spectrum of energy challenges, we offer expertise in the following sectors: renewable energy (wind and solar), Battery Energy Storage Systems, hydropower, bioenergy (including energy from waste), energy efficiency and carbon management, thermal power generation, nuclear power and transmission and distribution.
The Transmission & Distribution (T&D) Engineering team provides a range of services from the initial concept through Power Systems Analysis, Cabling, Substations, Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure, System Balancing and Compensation, Protection Systems, SCADA, Communications, Converter Station Design, HVDC Systems and Interconnectors including overseas links.
We provide development, design, maintenance and project management for all services and comply with client and other stakeholder’s quality, technical, commercial, safety and environmental requirements. Regular site visits to construction sites for substations, cables and overhead lines would be a feature of this role.
AECOM are part of the Great Grid Upgrade programme in a Joint Venture with Arup. As a partner within the programme we are responsible for delivering design, environment and consenting services within the strategic programme of works.
Here's what you'll do:
The successful candidate will primarily be working on transmission assets in the Republic of Ireland or the UK, but the team is working on multiple projects in Europe and further afield and some international travel may be required. Regular site visits to construction sites for substations, cables and overhead lines would be a feature of this role.
We encourage membership and networking activities in industry bodies such as Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET), IEI, CIGRE. When a graduate starts with AECOM, we pair them with a senior member of the team who will guide and mentor them through their initial period working on live projects and business development proposals. Their initial role may involve a selection of activities potentially including:
1. Conceptual Design
2. Power Network Design, Power System Analysis & Studies using DigSILENT, PSCAD, PSS/E etc.
3. Load & Demand Forecasting, System Stability Analysis
4. Substation Site Selection
5. Substation Design
6. Ground Resistivity Measurement & Earthing System Design using CDE3D Substation & Switchyard Layout Visualization
7. Lightning Protection System Design
8. Overhead & Underground Cable System Design
9. Interconnector Studies & Design
10. Transformer & Switchgear Selection & Installation
11. Options Selection & Evaluation
12. Value Engineering
13. HV Cable studies using CYMCAP
Enjoy the Perks
At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.
Qualifications
Here’s what we’re looking for:
1. BSc/BEng in Electrical/Power Engineering, with a 2:1 classification (or equivalent) or above
2. MSc/MEng in Electrical/Power Engineering would be an advantage
3. Must have completed HV & Power related course work or module options
4. Experience with AutoCAD and AutoCAD 3D is preferred
5. Python or other scripting skills would be an advantage
6. Ability to structure & prioritise work effectively through close cooperation with the team as a whole
7. Ability to work in a team and independently without losing initiative & focus
8. Good numerical skills
9. Ability to communicate effectively to internal and external clients, both verbally & in writing
10. Good Microsoft Office skills essential such as Word, Excel & PowerPoint
11. Excellent research and report writing skills
12. Strong attention to detail
13. Enthusiastic, hard-working, with ambition and drive
Desirable
Full driving license and willingness to travel on occasion is desirable (some site travel with equipment may be required).
We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us.
Additional Information
Applicants are encouraged to apply as early as possible since CVs will be reviewed, and candidates selected on a rolling recruitment basis for either immediate or advanced offer start. These roles are a mixture of starts between January - October 24. Please include a covering letter with your application and provide all predicted and/or obtained academic grades. You must have permanent right to work in the UK as we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position.
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. 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.
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.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. 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: REF39038G
Business Line: Energy
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India
Career Area: Engineering
Work Location Model: Hybrid
Legal Entity: AECOM Ireland Limited
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