OT Controls Engineer — Secure Substation Automation

Sword Group; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personalised Career Development

Flexible working

Private health & well-being benefits

Pension scheme

Job summary

Sword is seeking an OT Controls Engineer to shape standardised, secure control system solutions for substations and RTUs across the energy sector. You will contribute to engineering policy, review equipment configurations and ensure regulatory alignment across projects.

Join our Technology Standards team to deliver repeatable, cyber-secure architectures and collaborate with cyber security, engineering and operations to scale solutions across sites.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Familiarity with OT cyber security frameworks such as IEC 62443.
• Experience with DNP3 and IEC 61850 in utility environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain engineering standards for substation control systems.
• Produce technical specifications for control system components.
• Design, implement and test standardised RTU builds and configurations.
• Evaluate vendor solutions for deployment in OT environments.
• Create wiring diagrams and control schematics using AutoCAD.
• Collaborate with engineering, cyber security and operations teams.

Skills

DNP3 protocol

IEC 61850

RTU configuration

Electrical engineering

OT cyber security

Substation control

Stakeholder communication

Education

Degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

SCADA

Networking basics

IEC 62443 familiarity

Job description

Sword is seeking an OT Controls Engineer to shape standardised, secure control system solutions for substations and RTUs across the energy sector. You will contribute to engineering policy, review equipment configurations and ensure regulatory alignment across projects.

Join our Technology Standards team to deliver repeatable, cyber-secure architectures and collaborate with cyber security, engineering and operations to scale solutions across sites.