Salary: £92500 – £99800 per annum, Benefits: Pension 12%, Hybrid ( 3 days office)
Lead Earthing & Bonding Engineer
We’re recruiting a technical leader for one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure programmes. As Lead Earthing & Bonding Engineer, you’ll own the electrical safety strategy across a multi‑billion pound scheme, developing and embedding earthing and bonding approaches that protect critical infrastructure and enable safe integration across hundreds of kilometres of complex systems.
What You’ll Be Doing
You will lead the Earthing & Bonding discipline as the recognised technical authority, developing and embedding electrical safety strategies across all project phases.
Technical Leadership
- Develop earthing and bonding strategies that meet BS 7909, IEC 61936, and railway safety regulations
- Define specifications and standards that guide design teams and contractors
- Assure compliance and resolve complex technical challenges where earthing, bonding, EMC, and power systems interact
- Lead peer reviews and technical governance processes
- Shape whole‑life cost through value engineering and innovative bonding approaches
Strategic Impact
- Manage professional services budget and oversee consultant performance on earthing and bonding deliverables
- Interface with utilities, network operators, and regulators on electrical safety coordination
- Drive adoption of best practice in grounding and bonding design (including TPLS, fault loop impedance analysis, earth mat design)
- Work across integrated engineering teams on power systems, M&E, and infrastructure
- Champion emerging techniques and innovation in earthing and bonding systems
Collaboration & Systems Integration
- Partner closely with the Lead EMC Engineer to ensure complementary strategies—earthing and EMC are fundamentally interconnected. Poor earthing creates EMC problems; EMC requirements drive bonding strategies.
- Work across integrated engineering teams on power systems, signalling, communications, and infrastructure
- Present complex technical concepts to senior stakeholders, contractors, and external regulators
- Coach and develop engineering capability in your discipline
- Lead interface management between earthing/bonding and related electrical disciplines
Who We’re Looking For
You’re a Chartered Engineer with deep expertise in earthing, bonding, and power systems electrical safety, and you have more than 15 years of experience building technical mastery and leading discipline teams on large, complex infrastructure projects.
Your Technical Background
- Chartered Engineer with specialist knowledge of earthing design, bonding strategies, electrical safety, ground systems, earth electrodes, and equipotential bonding
- Practical experience with power system design, HV systems, substation earthing, and grounding architectures
- Understanding of how earthing and bonding requirements interact with EMC, signalling, and other systems
- Familiarity with BS 7909, IEC 61936, CDM regulations, and Common Safety Method (CSM) frameworks
- Track record of developing technical specifications, standards, and bonding strategies (including TPLS, fault loop impedance analysis, earth mat design)
- 15 or more years’ experience building technical mastery
Your Project Experience
- Led discipline teams on major, multi‑billion pound infrastructure projects with complex power and electrical systems
- Worked as Technical Authority or Discipline Lead on complex integrated programmes involving earthing, bonding, power distribution, utilities, or railway power systems
- Successfully managed competing engineering, cost, and schedule demands with focus on whole‑life cost and value engineering
- Ideally: Railway experience (Network Rail, HS1, London Underground), utility systems, power distribution, or substation design background
Your Leadership Profile
- Proven ability to inspire and influence teams at senior levels across multi‑disciplinary environments
- Comfortable in matrix organisations, setting technical direction without direct authority
- Strategic thinker who balances technical rigour with practical delivery and commercial awareness
- Excellent communicator who translates complex electrical engineering, standards, and technical governance to non‑specialists
- Resilient and agile in rapidly changing programme environments with competing priorities
- Growth mindset: mentor talent, drive innovation, and champion standards development
What Makes This Role Special
You’ll work at the intersection of safety, systems integration, and transformational infrastructure delivery. Unlike routine earthing and bonding roles, this position offers genuine technical authority on a project that will define engineering practice for decades. Your work will directly influence whole‑life costs and safety outcomes across millions of pounds of infrastructure.
About the Wider Team
You’ll be part of a technical leadership group that includes specialist leads across power systems, signalling, structures, and other disciplines. The Lead EMC Engineer works closely with you—these roles are deliberately paired because earthing/bonding and EMC strategies must align. We’re recruiting both simultaneously, and we’re looking for two specialists who understand the intersection and can collaborate effectively at a peer level.
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