2025 Graduate Engineer - High Voltage (Power)

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

12/22/2024

Our purpose at Baker Hicks is to deliver creative design, engineering, and project delivery solutions together with our clients to shape a healthier, sustainable and safer world.

As part of the global Energy Transition, the UK needs to build significantly more HV transmission and distribution infrastructure over the next seven years than has been built in the last thirty. BakerHicks has decades of specialist experience in major infrastructure projects and has grown rapidly in the Transmission & Distribution sector over the last 8 years, successfully winning a number of major projects within the UK.

As the demand to deliver exceptional engineering design from our clients continues to grow, so does our need to attract outstanding graduate talent to join our High Voltage engineering team.

Our Graduate Programme

As a Graduate Engineer within our High Voltage team, you will be part of a growing team focused on contributing to the UKs Energy Transition. You will develop an understanding of the principals of design and construction, and the use of industry standard software packages in order to produce accurate, high quality design drawings, reports and calculations.

You will gain practical experience in producing deliverables associated with the design and build of complex Projects. These will be produced for some of the main high voltage transmission and distribution clients in the UK and abroad, covering both contractors and asset owners.

You will gain valuable experience of teamwork and fast-paced, exceptional engineering execution.

Principal Responsibilities

A Graduate Engineer in our HV team will be responsible for ensuring the quality and consistency of the teams output in the production and control of drawings and technical documents and will also work with senior members of the team to assist during the bid process in order to secure further work.

• Provide engineering services design and consultancy work outputs on behalf of BakerHicks under the direction of the line manager or project lead.
• Produce design deliverables (including drawings, specifications and reports), site survey reports, construction stage duties, client liaison with members of design/construction teams, project management, costing and ensure progress against the project brief.
• Collaborate closely with multi-disciplinary members of the design team to deliver safe, efficient and buildable solutions.
• Contribute to the preparation of enquiry plans, tender reviews, fee estimate sheets, scope of work documents and change control documentation as required.
• A developing understanding of CDM requirements.
  
  

What We're Looking For

We’re looking for individuals with a passion for High Voltage Engineering with a focus on sustainable and complex projects.

• BEng/BSc in Engineering with Power/High Voltage background
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including report writing
• Ability to work well within a team
• Desire to develop and learn new skills with ability to transfer existing skills to overcome new challenges
  
  

You’ll also need to feel confident to challenge the status quo, strive for perfect delivery and possess a willingness to get involved with every opportunity to develop yourself and put our customers first.

Due to the recent changes to salary thresholds set by UKVI, BakerHicks graduate positions do not meet the requirements to support new entrant visa sponsorship. Therefore, all applicants must have the permanent right to work in the United Kingdom.

Additionally, many of the positions within our company are subject to security clearance. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by various factors. The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain security clearance for this role as required by our clients and sectors.

Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

As we will be working through a high volume of applications, BakerHicks will endeavour to respond to your application as soon as possible.

About BakerHicks

We’ve been innovating in design, engineering and project delivery since 1957 and operate from 14 locations for a truly European reach. For more about our company story, see: About | BakerHicks.

BakerHicks. A Morgan Sindall Group company.

Benefits

Whatever your discipline, you’ll be alongside some of the most talented people in the industry. Our network of offices are appealing, friendly and comfortable spaces, easily accessible by car or public transport. And our salary and benefits packages are some of the best in the industry.

What you get will depend on what you do, with individual performance-related rewards also on offer in addition to:

• Company car or cash allowance
• Up to 6% matched contributory pension plan
• Life assurance scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus ability to buy additional leave
• Discount scheme (including gym membership, mobile phones etc)
• Flexible/hybrid working
• Family friendly policies
• Employee assistance
• Professional development
  
  

BakerHicks is an equal opportunity employer. We care about creating an inclusive atmosphere and are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion throughout.

BakerHicks is an inclusive organisation welcoming talent from all backgrounds. Applicants are assessed on the basis of personal merit and qualifications.

Please be advised that while BakerHicks endeavours to process applications promptly, the upcoming festive season and our annual shutdown will delay the review of new applications until January 2025, with interviews commencing the week of January 13th, 2025.

We appreciate your understanding and wish you a safe and enjoyable festive period.