# Overhead Line (OHL) Engineer (Energy)

**Company**: WSP
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

As an Overhead Line (OHL) Engineer at WSP, you will supervise a team of design engineers specialising in Overhead Transmission Lines, working on projects ranging from 11kV to 400kV.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Providing technical evaluations and problem-solving solutions to team members

- Preparing written proposals outlining project timelines, resource allocation, budgets, objectives, and goals

- Offering technical guidance and input throughout project implementation, statutory planning, and public consultation events

- Leading engineering and design activities, including PLS-CADD modelling, line routing, structure analysis, and loading trees

- Conducting feasibility studies, performing conductor thermal ratings, and ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations

- Participating in industry working groups such as CIGRE, IEEE

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- A bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent technical discipline, preferably Electrical or Power engineering

- Experience in overhead line engineering up to 400kV

- Experience on upgrading work projects, such as utilisation of High Temperature Low Sag conductors

- Desirable skills in PLS CADD / POLE / TOWER

- Knowledge of conducting galloping studies, EMF and Field Effects Calculation, Wake effect, AC Interference for Gas pipelines would be advantageous

- The ability to travel as projects dictate

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical engineering
- Power engineering
- Overhead line engineering
- PLS-CADD modelling
- Line routing
- Structure analysis

### Nice to have
- PLS CADD
- POLE
- TOWER
- Galloping studies
- EMF and Field Effects Calculation
- Wake effect
- AC Interference for Gas pipelines

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