Lead P&C Project Engineer

Taylor Hopkinson Limited; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Taylor Hopkinson Limited seeks a Lead P&C Project Engineer to drive protection and control engineering on a major infrastructure project in Scotland. You will oversee technical scope definition, evaluate third-party designs, and ensure delivery of robust protection schemes and settings.

You should have a minimum HNC in Electrical Engineering and hands-on experience with transmission protection, panel design, and risk-based project delivery.

Qualifications

• Minimum of HNC level qualification in Electrical Engineering.
• Experience in transmission protection and control application specification, panel and scheme design, and calculating protection settings.
• Engineering diligence and ability to critically assess problems and solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide protection and control engineering support across multiple projects, by assessing and defining the technical scope requirements during development phases, before evaluating third-party detailed designs as the project moves into delivery, predominantly panel and scheme designs.
• Configure protection and control equipment according to the application and scheme requirement, including the calculation and preparation of protection settings.
• Assess and adjudicate third-party contractor factory acceptance tests on protection and control equipment for new build and retrofit applications.
• Support multi-disciplinary project teams in identifying and managing engineering risks and identifying opportunities for the project to excel.
• Take responsibility for delivering required outputs to programme and participate in the development of our increasing digital design capabilities and scheme standardisation works.

Education

HNC in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Lead P&C Project Engineer for a major infrastructure project in Scotland

Responsible for

• Provide protection and control engineering support across multiple projects, by assessing and defining the technical scope requirements during development phases, before evaluating third-party detailed designs as the project moves into delivery, predominantly panel and scheme designs.
• Configure protection and control equipment according to the application and scheme requirement, including the calculation and preparation of protection settings. Ideally, candidates will be experienced in both scheme design and setting preparation
• Assess and adjudicate third-party contractor factory acceptance tests on protection and control equipment for new build and retrofit applications.
• Support multi-disciplinary project teams in identifying and managing engineering risks and identifying opportunities for the project to excel.
• Take responsibility for delivering required outputs to programme and participate in the development of our increasing digital design capabilities and scheme standardisation works.

You have:

• A minimum of HNC level qualification in Electrical Engineering.
• Demonstrable experience and skills in transmission protection and control application specification, panel and scheme design, as well as the skills to calculate protection settings for implementation.
• The ability to demonstrate engineering diligence and the confidence to technically assess problems and critically assess a range of solutions