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Primary Design Manager

Ge Vernova 🇬🇧 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom

Full-time Manager

Lead global engineering teams and deliver primary plant designs for HV/EHV substation projects, ensuring high-quality, timely outputs that meet customer and regulatory requirements. Coordinate integrated design with other engineering disciplines, review vendor documentation, engage with clients and suppliers, and provide technical leadership and design governance throughout the project lifecycle.

Responsibilities

  • Lead global engineering teams and deliver primary plant designs for HV/EHV substation projects, ensuring high-quality, timely outputs that meet customer and regulatory requirements. Coordinate integrated design with other engineering disciplines, review vendor documentation, engage with clients and suppliers, and provide technical leadership and design governance throughout the project lifecycle.

Requirements

  • A degree in Electrical, Power, or Mechanical Engineering, or an equivalent qualification, and strong experience in HV substation design are required. Candidates should know UK transmission and distribution standards, have experience across tender and execution phases, and be familiar with CAD, BIM/3D tools, CDM regulations, and safe-by-design principles.

Key Skills

High‑voltage/EHV substation primary design Electrical engineering Power system engineering HV/EHV design standards (UK T&D) CAD BIM/3D modelling CDM regulations Safe‑by‑design principles Vendor documentation review Client and supplier engagement Technical leadership Design governance Project lifecycle management Cross‑disciplinary coordination Risk assessment Quality assurance Regulatory compliance Team mentorship Engineering standards

About Ge Vernova

GE Vernova is a purpose-built energy technology company on a mission to electrify to thrive and decarbonize the world. It is made up of three businesses -- Power, Electrification, and Wind -- with focus on accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. The world needs more energy, smarter energy. With energy demand expected to grow by more than 50% in the next 20 years, we are continuously innovating to meet the moment…like we have for the past 130 years. The Energy of Change and relentless optimism are what drive us – it’s about never giving up and seeing what’s possible so that we deliver the energy technologies the world needs right now and for generations to come. GE Vernova’s attitude and edge is embedded in its name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and

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