Principal Electrical Engineer Team Leader

Mott MacDonald

Position location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Recruiter contact: Martin Keown

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

About the business unit
The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across several sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation and transmission & distribution networks. Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle – from concept and design to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension. Together with our clients, we’re helping to deliver the energy transition globally.

About us 
One of the largest employee-owned companies in the world, Mott MacDonald is a multisector consultancy providing engineering, management, and development services on projects in 150 countries. With over 16,000 of the best people working on a diverse range of challenges, we’re helping our clients deliver sustainable infrastructure and development solutions. Together, we are opening opportunities with connected thinking. 

The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across a number of sectors including hydropower, nuclear, defence, waste, renewable generation and transmission & distribution networks. Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle – from concept and design, to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension. Together with our clients, we’re helping to deliver the energy transition globally.
 
About the role
Our electrical Transmission & Distribution business has offices in the UK, Ireland, Serbia and Spain. We now have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Electrical Engineer to help us build and develop a new office in Sofia, Bulgaria, with support from our UK team. The successful candidate will work on a range of diverse industry leading projects developing innovative solutions for power transmission grid systems and for client transmission installations ensuring security of electricity supply, developing the integration of renewable energy sources and bringing large power infrastructural plans from concept to delivery stage. 

Reporting to the Power team Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for a range of activities including;

• Bulgarian Team Leader, providing professional supervision, mentoring and development, allocation of projects, recruitment, and other regular team leader activities in line with our values. 
• Help to build and grow a small but highly performing team in Sofia.
• Primary plant design and layouts for HV substations; 
• Equipment specifications for HV Plant and ancillary equipment; 
• Providing engineering design input to major electrical power projects from feasibility/front end engineering stages to detailed design/site construction monitoring and commissioning; 
• Project management and coordination with clients and our design teams within Mott MacDonald including civil, structural, environmental, survey/geotechnical, transport, protection and control and CAD/BIM team; 
• Delivering projects in new technologies e.g. energy storage, HVDC systems, smart grid solutions, waste to energy etc; 
• Provide professional services to clients both Nationally and Internationally.

 
About you
The successful candidate will ideally possess the following: 

• Experience working in the power transmission and distribution industry; 
• Qualified to degree level and either a Chartered Engineer or working towards being Chartered or overseas equivalent;
• Experience in managing staff. 
• Experience in design, delivery and supervision of HV substations (110kV to 400kV); 
• Experienced in the use of BIM and integrated models.
• Experience in development of specifications for HV AIS/GIS substations and associated primary/secondary equipment; 
• Experience in all stages of a project lifecycle; 
• Experience in applying regulatory and client specific health and safety requirements to HV plant system designs; 
• Experience in the preparation of technical reports in English; 

 
We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. 
 

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 have the opportunity to contribute. 

If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format or would like us to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can assist.

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 embrace agility, flexibility and trust.