Your impact
Responsibilities include:
- Managing Transmission Line project deliverables, scope and schedule within a multi-discipline design project.
- Leading preparation of proposals (bids) for design work, providing estimates for Transmission Line project components and coordinating inputs from other disciplines.
- Prepare conceptual designs for Transmission Line works including relevant supporting design reports, prepare detailed design drawings, reports, specifications, bills of materials and other documentation for Transmission Line works, inject constructability considerations to positively influence design outcomes, review contractor design documentation and project implementation schedules and procedures and prepare and review capital cost estimates.
- Delivering technically compliant design solutions for overhead line engineering.
- Handling input from aerial/ ground-based survey by importing this successfully into PLS-CADD.
- Preparing quality PLS-CADD line model of complex line design of LV to HV comprising of structural M4 models.
- Carrying out all checks associated with clearances in PLS-CADD and produce deliverables for projects required for line design.
- Carrying out independently design of towers, poles and substation gantries using PLS-TOWER, PLS-POLE and/ or SpaceGass or StaadPro.
- Carrying out independently footing design using LPILE, GROUP or any other software recognised by industry standards.
- Estimating the load for overhead structures using relevant international or local standards/ codes of practice.
- Understanding technical risks and challenges around stringing and maintenance including constructability, maintainability and operability risks and address these in the designs.
- Manage time and cost assigned on individual tasks associated with project delivery.
- Develop and maintain strong internal team relationships – act as a trusted resource to peers and cross-sector teams within Jacobs Power and Energy business unit.
- Assist the team leaders/ section leader to actively contribute in technical papers/ presentations and business development initiatives.
- Keep abreast of new methods and developments in engineering tools and software to drive effectiveness and avoid re-work/ re-inventing the wheel.
- Facilitate/ support the technical development of more junior such as graduate engineers and any other resources including offshore (Global Integrated Delivery Team) resources to meet project delivery requirements.
