HVDC Engineering roles

Location/s: Birmingham, York, Newcastle, Brighton, Glasgow; UK

Recruiter contact: Abhijeet Barpanda

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance - we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you're surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the business unit 

Building on our delivery of major HVDC projects and a strong future pipeline, our Transmission & Distribution division is expanding and we are seeking an experienced HVDC Engineer to join our UK HVDC team. You will play a key role in delivering technical design and assurance for HVDC‑based energy infrastructure projects.

Workload will vary in line with business needs but will primarily include the following responsibilities:

•  Optioneering, feasibility studies, risk assessment, consenting support and high‑level cost estimates
•  Preparation of functional specifications
•  Review of bid documentation
•  Technical assurance of EPC design documentation
•  Site visits and witnessing of factory acceptance tests
•  Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams
•  Participation in technical discussions with OEMs
•  Provision of technical services or support to OEMs, developers and lenders
•  Site pre‑commissioning and commissioning supervision
•  Maintaining awareness of HVDC technological developments
•  Supporting business development and client relationship management
•  Identification of key interfaces and leading meetings or issue resolution
•  Review of type, routine and site acceptance test requirements and methodologies

Candidate specification

Essential:

•  Degree in Electrical Engineering
•  Extensive HVDC experience, ideally gained with an OEM or TSO
•  Strong understanding of HVDC design principles, delivery activities and programmes, performance guarantees, station layouts, rating studies, primary equipment and system studies
•  Excellent communication, interpersonal and analytical skills
•  Proven ability to produce clear technical reports
•  Understanding of HVDC technology readiness levels and market trends
•  Interest in professional networking and participation in industry bodies (e.g. CIGRE, IET, IEEE)

Desirable:

•  Experience in both onshore and offshore HVDC system design
•  Experience with HVDC control and protection functions, including protection schemes, operating modes and interlocking
•  Experience related to dispatch systems, condition monitoring and harmonic performance design

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at [email protected] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Employee Ownership

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years' service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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