Company Description

About Enterprise Capabilities

Fundamental to our

Think and Act Globally

strategy and digital adoption, Enterprise Capabilities (EC) is AECOMs primary vehicle for workshare. Operating across geographic boundaries and time-zones, EC partners with regional and Global Business Line project teams to provide technical expertise, accelerate delivery and keep AECOM competitive in the industry.

With a team of over 3000 technical professionals located across nine countries and remote technical anchors, EC teams are trusted to deliver high-quality, specialist services that help to fill capability gaps, resourcing needs and technical constraints on projects of all scopes and sizes.

Start here. Grow here.

Job Description

We are seeking a Principal Engineer - Secondary Substation to join our Transmission & Distribution team in India. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated engineer to contribute to impactful Energy projects across the globe and continue developing their technical expertise in a supportive, high-performing team.

- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Protection & Control engineers and technical specialists.
- Develop, refine and optimise P&C; solutions including creation of key line diagrams, schematic diagrams, relay settings, SCADA topology diagrams, wiring diagrams, design specifications, interface drawings etc. for various Transmission & Distribution clients.
- Owners Engineers role, to review and comment on supplier designs and calculations on behalf of HV Clients, including BESS and Renewables projects
- Conduct Protection Coordination Studies and Settings calculations where required using ETAP or similar software (desired).




- Coordinate across multi-disciplinary engineering environments and project managers.
- Support with technical reports and bids, as well as foster positive relationships with clients.
- Ensure adherence to AECOM and client design management processes while leading project and client meetings as needed.
- Mentor team members in their development, facilitating opportunities that build competency, and assisting with professional accreditation where appropriate.
- Ensure design submissions comply with codes, standards such as IEEE, IEC, National Grid, and quality requirements.
- Drive innovation in AI, digital, scripts automation, develop the user defined agile & transient models.
- Performs quality control review of design calculations or drawings.
- Prepares technical specification sections.
- Provides input to the development of engineering budgets and schedules.

Qualifications

The successful candidate will have the following Qualifications:

- Master of Engineering degree (or equivalent education) in an appropriate engineering discipline from an accredited college or university.
- 12-15 years of work experience is preferred.
- Chartered Engineer (CEng), or Professional Engineer (PE) license or equivalent in the relevant field from any global organization (e.g.,



Institution of Electrical Engineers, UK)
- Prior experience in leading large design engineering teams performing Grid Substation design in a global consultancy firm is preferred.
- Experience in HV Plant Design for EHV Grid Substations is mandatory.
- Experience in P&C; FEED or detailed design of high voltage installations (132kV to 400kV).
- Experience in preparation of Substation Protection and Control Scheme drawings, Relay Coordination and Settings, Panel GA drawings, Substation SCADA and communication protocols, etc is preferred.
- Previous experience in design teams working for Grid Utilities (e.g., Global National Grid, Transgrid, Powergrid etc.) for Substations and Transmission Line Electrical design.
- Exposure to International standards (IEC, IEEE, ANSI, Australian Standards, NEC, BS, Middle East region codes & standards, etc.) is preferred
- Should have led large teams and faced clients independently.
- Previous design experience working with GIS and AIS EHV substation HV Plant Secondary design is preferable.

Additional Information

At AECOM, our Freedom to Grow philosophy supports flexibility and balance to help our people thrive. As part of this approach, we ask all hybrid employees to work from an AECOM office at least three days per week.

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously.

To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

📌 Principal Engineer - Substation Secondary (Bengaluru)
🏢 Aecom
📍 Bengaluru