HV Protection & Control Field Engineer - Hybrid

SSE PLC; Perth; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private car allowance

Flexible First options

Family health and wellbeing benefits

Pension and life assurance

Cycle to Work scheme

Job summary

SSE’s SSEN Transmission is recruiting a Protection and Control Field Engineer based in Dundee or Perth to support reliability and safety of the UK grid. You will help deliver major capital projects and oversee protection and control systems up to 400kV, with scope from assistant to senior roles.

Role involves installation, commissioning, testing and maintenance of HV protection equipment, plus occasional travel and a 24/7 standby rota to ensure continuous power reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience with high voltage protection and control systems.
• Ability to diagnose faults in protection schemes and associated wiring.
• Familiarity with protection diagrams and settings verification.
• Knowledge of protection logic and intelligent electronic devices.
• Operating under HV safety standards with appropriate authorisations.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the Transmission network operates to the highest reliability standards through technical management of connected protection and control system, and associated HV plant.
• Help deliver the multimillion-pound capital delivery programme, including commissioning of new protection and control, primary HV equipment and substation auxiliary systems.
• Learn or have knowledge of all aspects of field protection and control work, including commissioning, maintenance, scheme design, setting calculation and verification, outage management, contractor liaison and budget management.
• You may be required to work away from your base location on occasion depending on operational and project requirements.
• Participation in a paid out of hours standby rota due to the 24/7 nature of operating a high voltage Transmission network.

Skills

HV protection systems up to 400kV

Fault diagnosis and testing

Interpret protection diagrams

Protection settings configuration

High Voltage switching authorisations

Job description

SSE’s SSEN Transmission is recruiting a Protection and Control Field Engineer based in Dundee or Perth to support reliability and safety of the UK grid. You will help deliver major capital projects and oversee protection and control systems up to 400kV, with scope from assistant to senior roles.

Role involves installation, commissioning, testing and maintenance of HV protection equipment, plus occasional travel and a 24/7 standby rota to ensure continuous power reliability.