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Siemens Energy

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Job summary

A leading company in energy technology is seeking a Principal Engineer Control in Leeds. The role involves leading a team, defining engineering policies, managing projects, and ensuring compliance with technical standards. Join a diverse team committed to innovation and sustainability.

Benefits

Medical benefits
Remote/Flexible work
Time off/Paid holidays and parental leave
Continual learning through the Learn@Siemens-Energy platform

Qualifications

  • Professional managerial experience in Transmission, Distribution or Renewables Industry.
  • Extensive knowledge of engineering standards applicable to National Grid, DNOs and Renewables projects in the UK.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a team of Control, Config, and FAT engineers.
  • Define policies and processes for engineering strategy and project management.
  • Ensure compliance with Health and Safety legislation.

Skills

Leadership
Communication
Interpersonal Presentation

Education

Degree/HND in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

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A Snapshot of Your Day

As a Principal Control Engineer, your day will involve leading a team of Control, Config, and FAT engineers to ensure a proficient workforce. You'll define policies and processes to align with our outstanding Engineering strategy, plan and prioritise budgets for engineering projects, and drive the development of technical standards and procedures. Coordinating design validation for secondary engineering solutions, you'll ensure timely and budget-compliant delivery of departmental work packages while promoting a "Right first time" culture and business improvement programs like T2W and Top+. Supporting validation and factory acceptance testing of engineered solutions, ensuring technical compliance with external design companies, identifying and controlling design risks to follow Health and Safety legislation, and implementing a mentoring process and training matrix for the department will round out your day.

A Snapshot of Your Day

As a Principal Control Engineer, your day will involve leading a team of Control, Config, and FAT engineers to ensure a proficient workforce. You'll define policies and processes to align with our outstanding Engineering strategy, plan and prioritise budgets for engineering projects, and drive the development of technical standards and procedures. Coordinating design validation for secondary engineering solutions, you'll ensure timely and budget-compliant delivery of departmental work packages while promoting a "Right first time" culture and business improvement programs like T2W and Top+. Supporting validation and factory acceptance testing of engineered solutions, ensuring technical compliance with external design companies, identifying and controlling design risks to follow Health and Safety legislation, and implementing a mentoring process and training matrix for the department will round out your day.

How You'll Make An Impact

  • Leadership & Development: Lead and develop a team of Control, Config, and FAT engineers, ensuring a proficient workforce through mentoring and training.
  • Strategy & Resource Management: Define policies and processes to align with the superior Engineering strategy, and plan and allocate resources and budgets for engineering projects.
  • Technical Standards & Design Validation: Drive the development of technical standards and procedures, and supervise design validation for secondary engineering solutions.
  • Project Management & Efficiency: Ensure timely and budget-compliant delivery of departmental work packages, promoting a "Right first time" culture and business improvement programs like T2W and Top+.
  • Performance & Process Improvement: Implement critical metrics to monitor performance, continuously review and improve engineering processes, and manage the NCR system to minimize rework.
  • Collaboration & Compliance: Ensure collaborative work with all engineering departments and project managers, enforce to business compliance requirements, and ensure technical compliance with external design companies and Health and Safety legislation.


What You Bring

  • Professional managerial experience with extensive experience in the Transmission, Distribution or Renewables Industry.
  • A degree/HND in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
  • Extensive knowledge of engineering standards applicable to National Grid, DNOs and Renewables projects in the UK.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal presentation skills
  • Solid understanding of Microsoft applications including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  • Excellent written English
  • Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure


About The Team

Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

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.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

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 fueled 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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