Siemens Energy
Senior Principal Engineer (Team Leader)
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A Snapshot of Your Day
As a Senior Principal Engineer within Siemens Energy’s UK Grid Technologies business, your day will be centred on leading and guiding a team of engineers to deliver high-quality primary engineering designs for UK transmission operator substations, particularly in support of renewable grid connections. You’ll balance technical leadership with collaboration—working closely with clients, project managers, civil teams, and fellow engineering leads—while overseeing progress, resolving issues, and ensuring designs meet safety, quality, budget, and programme requirements. Reporting to the Head of Primary Engineering (UK), you’ll play a visible role in technical meetings, design reviews, and monthly reporting, while also investing time in coaching and developing your team.
How You’ll Make An Impact
- Lead a team to deliver the primary engineering design adhering to the process and the business strategy.
- Hold technical responsibility for primary design on substations, accountable for approving primary engineering design within the department.
- Coordinate with clients, civil teams, project management, and other interfaces to deliver high-quality technical output in line with agreed delivery timescales and budget.
- Ensure design risk assessments/HAZIDs are in place for all design solutions and that residual risks are passed on to the H&S file.
- Chair design reviews to ensure consistency in design and adherence to specifications and processes.
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What You’ll Bring
- A degree in electrical engineering.
- Extensive primary engineering design experience within the Electricity Transmission and Distribution industry, with at least 5 years in the UK as a lead design engineer.
- Good working knowledge of grid connection requirements, constraints, and technologies.
- Excellent knowledge of technology, product roadmap, and value engineering.
- Fully conversant with the latest Transmission and Distribution standards & technologies and Health & Safety standards (including CDM regulations) applicable to the design of High Voltage substations.
About The Team
Our Grid Technologies business offers customers a broad portfolio of products, systems, solutions, and services geared around the key market trends of digitalization, decarbonization, grid stability, and electrification. Our people are the drivers behind this. With expertise, passion, and commitment, we are working to transmit energy as efficiently and environmentally friendly as possible. Sound interesting? Join us and help make the difference.
Our Primary Engineering Team delivers the solutions for AC Grid Access Renewables projects to deliver green energy to the customers.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world’s electricity generation.
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Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fuelled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.
Rewards/Benefits
- Opportunities to work with a global team.
- Opportunities to work on and lead a variety of innovative projects.
- Medical benefits.
- Remote/Flexible work.
- Time off/Paid holidays and parental leave.
- Continual learning through the Learn@Siemens-Energy platform.
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