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Role description:
Working closely with our Rail Power team from GEC and Australia, you will contribute specialist expertise to national projects within the Rail Traction Power sector, providing advanced input in Earthing, Bonding, Electrolysis, and Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) design. As a Senior specialist in Earthing, Bonding, and Electrolysis, you will deliver high-quality technical solutions, offer guidance to project teams, and advise the team to ensure effective and compliant E&B implementations. You will be involved in delivering and assuring quality on significant national projects, with opportunities for continued professional development and training to further advance your skills and career.
Role accountabilities:
- Preparing complex design documentation and reports to the wider Rail Power team in the following areas:
- Earthing, bonding and electrolysis risk assessment
- Earthing system analysis and design
- Earthing simulation for design touch- step voltages and LFI studies
- Lightning protection system design
- Bonding design on DC systems
- Power flow and Electrical fault studies and safety assessments
- Insulation Coordination studies
- Input to rail and power substation system design including preparation of single line diagrams, layouts, circuit diagrams, earthing and bonding schematics, and coordination of the design with communication, civil, structural and mechanical design disciplines
- Input to Protection systems analysis, setting, specification and design
- Input to Electromagnetic studies and EMC management.
- Production of electrical safety case and safety compliance documents
- Manage the delivery of specialized components of projects, advising on the best solutions and most effective team to achieve this.
- Working in collaboration with interfacing design disciplines to ensure co-ordination and the integrity of the overall design
Qualifications & Experience:
- 7+years of experience as power systems engineer, with 5 years recent experience in earthing and bonding design.
- Tertiary qualification in electrical/power engineering.
- Good spoken and written communication skills including a working knowledge of MS Office.
- Highly regarded skills include:
- Experience in a design consultancy role
- Demonstrated ability to lead the design teams and deliver earthing and power system design solutions
- Experience in AC and DC railway earthing, bonding and electrolysis design
- Experience of working with traction power system modelling software tools.
- Experience of CDEGS earthing system software for earthing and induction modelling
- Experience of ETAP or equivalent software tool for power system modelling.
- Ability to develop studies in ATP/PSCAD/EMTP
- Experience in developing EMC studies and management plans.
- Ability to develop maintenance strategies and procedures, commissioning plans and documentation.
Why Arcadis
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
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We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why equality and inclusion is at the forefront of all our activities. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer; women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, caste, creed, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
