Project Engineer (Design)

Job Title - Project Engineer (Design)

Location - Wrexham or Caernarfon

Salary + benefits - From £45,400 with annual review, performance bonus, comprehensive pension scheme (company doubles your contribution up to 10%), plus extensive benefits package

Closing date - 6th October 2026

Help us create a better future, quicker

Join SP Energy Networks as a Project Engineer (Design) and play a vital role in shaping the future of our district distribution network. You'll be at the forefront of planning and designing electrical infrastructure up to 11kV, ensuring network security and integrity while delivering projects typically valued at circa £5m. This role offers the opportunity to apply innovative engineering solutions that balance customer needs with efficient network design, all while enabling Scotland's Net Zero targets. You'll manage connection requests, undertake system evaluation to establish load and generation connections, and develop network reinforcement solutions that improve the safety and longevity of our electrical infrastructure. Working within our Planning & Design team, you'll help drive the rapid growth in renewable energy that our communities rely on.

What you'll be doing

• Manage the regulatory aspects of connection requests and provide quotations, ensuring all processes meet regulatory and licence requirements
• Work within defined scope, volumes, and unit costs to deliver best value from regulatory contracts while maintaining the highest standards of network integrity
• Integrate asset stewardship through sound engineering practices, coordinating planning, design, and ownership activities to improve network safety and longevity while minimizing scheme costs for customer connections
• Manage third-party Point of Connection and design approvals activities within the SPM and SPD licence areas
• Produce designs in accordance with unit or authorized prime costs, enabling efficient delivery of outputs
• Drive continuous performance improvement through evaluation of outputs and feedback from internal and external sources
• Consider technological, procedural, and commercial solutions to enhance all designs through innovation
• Develop robust stakeholder and customer relationships on behalf of ScottishPower, facilitating delivery of strategic priorities
• Work closely with Local Authorities, Housing Associations, and Independent Network Operators, ensuring programmes of work complement local activities and aspirations
• Promote an exemplary safety culture, ensuring all safety legislation is implemented and delivered through all activities and incorporated into project designs
• Plan your workload and daily activities to meet team goals, ensuring completion of all designs within relevant guaranteed standards and licence conditions
• Contribute to the district's medium and long-term network plan spanning 3 months to 3 years

What you'll bring

• Engineering or professional qualification, or equivalent experience that demonstrates your technical capability
• Experience in a network design role
• Relevant network construction and operational experience that gives you practical insight into how designs translate to real-world infrastructure
• Thorough knowledge of design standards up to 11kV
• Familiarity with the regulatory environment including relevant output and incentive mechanisms
• Developed skills with network evaluation modelling tools, enabling you to devise solutions to complex problems and requirements
• General commercial awareness with the ability to balance customer service, efficient network design, and maximum return on investment
• Effective stakeholder and customer service engagement skills
• Ability to communicate and present information clearly at all levels of the organization
• Capability to manage multiple priorities using sound engineering and financial judgement to identify optimal solutions
• Awareness of key business drivers and the external commercial context in which ScottishPower operates
• Computer literacy to work with various digital tools and systems daily
• Ability to make balanced judgements, taking into account all available information, consulting with others when applicable, and anticipating possible outcomes
• Technical and operational experience that enables you to plan effectively and contribute meaningfully to team goals

What's in it for you

As well as an attractive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it's the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action -- our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world -- today and tomorrow. That's why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday Purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Equity Plans
• Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
• Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
• Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
• Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing assistance
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network - connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It's a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland's ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we're taking it very seriously. We're investing >£5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in.

We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected].

Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.

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