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AECOM’s Enterprise Capabilities team is looking for a Traction Power Engineer to join our team in Madrid.
About Enterprise Capabilities
Fundamental to our Think and Act Globally strategy and digital adoption, Enterprise Capabilities (EC) is AECOM’s 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.
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Job Description
We are currenly looking for a Traction Power engineer to join our successful team of Rail Systems in Madrid:
Here is what you will do:
- During all the stages of a project, contribute to design development, design risk and mitigation and value engineering, regarding traction power system and traction power substations.
- Be part of the power systems team with responsibility and dependability, with a strategic and critical thinking, considering the needs of the projects and the team necessity with a flexible approach.
- Take the responsibility on some parts of the projects in the development of the TPS design.
- Produce technical reports and technical specification for the equipment and installations.
- Development of electrical studies and collaborate in the TPS simulations for the sizing of the system and the location and main characteristics of the TPS equipment.
- Space proofing design for the TPS installations, including cable routing design.
- Attend design team meetings and defend/justify the design in front of the client or independent reviewers.
- Liaise with BIM/CAD modellers for production of drawings.
- Ensure that the technical and safety standards are maintained in all aspects of design work in order that successful project implementation and future reliability is achieved.
- Be able to act as technical advisor and reviewer for traction power substations projects
- Ensure that good design practices are followed. Knowledgeable of standards and norms, especially CENELEC and ANSI, IEEE.
Qualifications
Here’s what we’re looking for
- Experience on designing of TPS substations both AC and DC railway line.
- Railway electrification (DC and AC), specifically design, construction, test & commissioning, and maintenance of electrical substations
- Development of technical specifications of electrical substation equipment
- Design, calculation, and construction of grounding & bonding networks for electric railways in DC and AC
- Design, calculation, parameterization, and test & commissioning of electrical protections in DC and AC electric railways
- Design, installation, test & commissioning, and maintenance of distributed control systems at the substation level, remote control level, and the Centralized Control Center level.
- Software: ETAP, Autocad.
- Strong competency in written Spanish and oral communication is required.
Additional Information
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