# Technical Director – Energy

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

As a Technical Director – HV Cable Engineering, you will act as a recognised Subject Matter Expert (SME) for HV/EHV cable systems across complex Transmission & Distribution programmes.

This role requires a CDAE qualification and carries accountability for technical authority, assurance, and strategic leadership across cable engineering.

## Responsibilities

You will:

- Act as the technical authority / SME for HV and EHV cable systems (HVAC & HVDC) across onshore and offshore projects.

- Provide strategic technical leadership and governance across multi-disciplinary delivery teams, ensuring engineering solutions meet client, contractual, statutory, and regulatory requirements.

- Lead technical assurance activities, including design reviews, peer reviews, technical approvals, and independent checking of HV cable system designs.

- Own and drive technical risk management, ensuring early identification, clear communication, and effective mitigation of cable-related risks.

- Define and oversee HV cable system design philosophies, including ratings, installation methods, bonding systems, earthing, and system integration.

- Ensure compliance with IEC cable standards, CIGRE technical guidance, and utility specifications, embedding best practice across delivery.

- Support work-winning and bid activities, providing senior technical input into proposals, specifications, technical clarifications, and client presentations.

- Build and maintain senior client relationships, acting as a trusted technical advisor to utilities, asset owners, and project sponsors.

- Provide technical oversight and coordination of subcontractors, suppliers, and remote delivery teams where required.

- Represent WSP in industry forums and working groups (e.g. CIGRE, IEEE), strengthening WSP’s technical credibility and external profile.

- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, contributing to capability development, succession planning, and technical excellence across the business.

## Qualifications

### ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS (MANDATORY)

- CDAE – Certified Design Authority Engineer

- Degree in Electrical / Power Engineering or an equivalent technical discipline.

- Extensive experience in HV/EHV cable engineering, covering design, manufacture, testing, installation, and commissioning.

- Strong expertise in HVAC and HVDC cable systems, including both onshore and offshore applications.

- Proven experience acting as a technical authority / SME, providing governance and assurance on complex T&D projects.

- In-depth knowledge of IEC cable standards, CIGRE publications, and utility technical specifications.

- Demonstrable experience in cable system design and ratings, including use of tools such as CYMCAP or equivalent.

- Strong understanding of bonding systems, earthing, short-circuit calculations, cable layouts, and system integration.

- Experience witnessing and advising on third-party cable activities, including factory acceptance testing, transport, installation, and site execution.

- Ability to engage confidently with senior client stakeholders, asset managers, and project directors.

### DESIRABLE

- Chartered Engineer status (or working towards).

- Experience providing technical leadership on major utility frameworks or large infrastructure programmes.

- Track record of supporting bid and proposal activities at senior technical level.

- Active involvement in industry technical committees or working groups.

## Job Info

- Employment with WSP India is subject to the successful completion of a background verification (“BGV”) check conducted by a third-party agency appointed by WSP India.

## Skills

### Required
- CDAE
- Electrical / Power Engineering
- HV/EHV cable engineering
- HVAC and HVDC cable systems
- IEC cable standards
- CIGRE publications
- CYMCAP

### Nice to have
- Chartered Engineer
- utility frameworks
- large infrastructure programmes
- bid and proposal activities

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