Control And Protection Team Lead - Digital Grid

Siemens Energy; Cundinamarca; Hybrid; COP 12,000,000 - 18,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth and development

Company paid health benefits

Paid time off and holidays

Parental leave

Opportunity to work with a global team

Job summary

Siemens Energy Colombia seeks a Control and Protection Team Lead for Digital Grid to guide a senior engineering team in Grid Automation. You will lead day-to-day operations, ensure adherence to standards, and collaborate with customers and project managers to deliver secure, reliable digital grid solutions.

You will own domain capability, drive continuous improvement, and mentor engineers, with opportunities to advance into broader engineering leadership within a global company.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering.
• 15+ years' experience leading and mentoring engineers.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Senior technical credibility to challenge and support the team.
• Valid B1/B2 Visa for the United States of America.
• English language proficiency (B2/C1).

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day operations for the engineering team.
• Allocate work, manage priorities and resolve conflicts.
• Represent domain in discussions with customers, PMs and other leads.
• Coach engineers' development and input to hiring decisions.
• Drive digitalisation and continuous improvement within the domain.
• Track efficiency, quality and capability improvements.

Skills

Leadership

People development

Stakeholder management

Engineering leadership

English communication

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Job description

Control and Protection Team Lead - Digital Grid

About the Role

Job ID 303857 Location Colombia Cundinamarca Bogota Remote vs. Office Hybrid (Remote/Office) Company Siemens Energy Organization Grid Technologies Business Unit Digital Grid Full / Part time Full-time Experience Level Professional / Experienced

ASnapshotofYourDay

Reporting to Engineering Manager EC2, you will lead the day-to-day running and continuous improvement of an engineering team within Grid Automation, owning capability, standards and delivery within your domain. This is first and foremost a leadership role: you will spend more of your time on people, coordination and decision-making than on hands‑on technical work, while drawing on your own senior technical background to support, challenge and develop the team.

Your day is built around the team rather than a single piece of technical work. You will allocate work, manage priorities and resolve conflicts, support engineers through technical and professional challenges, and make sure standards and ways of working stay consistent across the team. You will represent your domain in conversations with Customers, Project Managers and other discipline leads, and you will input to hiring, promotion and development decisions. You will stay close enough to the technical detail to ask the right questions and challenge the team's thinking, without needing to be the one solving every problem yourself.

HowYou’llMakeanImpact

• Run day-to-day operations for the team, allocating work and managing priorities and conflicts; Support resourcing and planning conversations, balancing team capacity against project demand.
• Own domain capability and standards, ensuring consistent ways of working across the team; Contribute to broader engineering leadership activity, including consistency across teams, shared standards and continuous improvement.
• Coach and support engineers' technical and professional development, identifying capability gaps and shaping development plans; input to hiring and promotion decisions, helping build and sustain a strong, well-rounded team.
• Act as the senior point of contact for your domain in project, customer and cross-discipline discussions; Communicate clearly and confidently with engineers, customers, suppliers and senior stakeholders, adapting style to the audience.
• Challenge and quality‑check the team's technical work, using your own experience to ask the right questions rather than doing the work yourself; Escalate and resolve risks and issues that affect the team's ability to deliver, raising these early with Project Managers and stakeholders.
• Own digitalisation and continuous improvement for your domain, identifying opportunities to retire manual processes, adopt new tools and lift engineering efficiency and quality; Sponsor adoption of new engineering tools and digital workflows within the team, balancing pace of change against delivery commitments.
• Track and report on efficiency, quality and capability improvements within your domain, using these to inform resourcing, training and process decisions.

What You Bring

• Bachelor degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• +15 years of general experience and proven experience leading, coaching or informally mentoring engineers, with a genuine interest in people development over individual technical output.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to represent your domain to Customers, Project Managers and senior leadership. A track record of making sound judgement calls under pressure, balancing team wellbeing, delivery pressure and quality. Experience allocating work, managing competing priorities and resolving conflict within a technical team.
• Senior-level technical credibility in your domain (see Technical Grounding above), sufficient to challenge and support the team rather than direct every technical decision yourself. A collaborative, servant‑leadership style: comfortable empowering others, holding accountability, and stepping back from the technical detail when appropriate.
• Genuine interest in engineering process improvement and digitalisation, with the judgement to know when a new tool or method is worth the change cost and when it isn't.
• Valid B1/B2 Visa for the United States of America.
• Communication skills in English language (B2 / C1).

Aboutthe Team

You bring senior-level experience in protection and control engineering for High Voltage substations, including relay application, configuration, settings, logic and structured FAT and SAT execution coordination. You understand protection philosophies, relay functions and bay-level integration well enough to challenge the team's technical decisions and stand behind them with customers.

Team Lead is a permanent leadership role with ownership of capability and operations for your domain. We support continued development through formal leadership and management training, alongside continued engagement with your technical domain through coaching and review activity, and progression opportunities into broader engineering leadership

WhoisSiemens Energy?

AtSiemensEnergy,wearemorethanjustanenergytechnologycompany.With ~100,000dedicatedemployeesinmorethan 90countries,wedeveloptheenergysystemsofthefuture,ensuringthatthegrowingenergydemandoftheglobalcommunity is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factoriesdrive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of whatispossible.Weupholda150-yearlegacyofinnovationthatencouragesoursearchforpeoplewhowillsupportourfocus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

OurCommitmenttoDiversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energyisfueledbyover130nationalities.SiemensEnergycelebratescharacter –nomatterwhatethnicbackground,gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• Career growth and development opportunities; supportive work culture
• Company paid Health and wellness benefits
• Paid Time Off and paid holidays
• Parental leave
• Opportunity to work with a global team
• Additional rewards based on your country will be further discussed with the hiring team