Protection & Control Engineer (Remote) - 2-Year Fixed Term

Sustainable Infrastructure; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in the UK is seeking a Protection & Control Engineer to support major substation projects. This role is fully remote with occasional travel and involves reviewing protection schemes, leading design efforts, and ensuring operational standards. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in substation protection engineering, knowledge of relay systems, and familiarity with SCADA and automation systems. The contract is fixed-term for 24 months.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in substation protection & control engineering.
• Knowledge of relay protection systems and settings.
• Ability to support commissioning and testing activities.

Responsibilities

• Review existing substation protection schemes and incorporate them into updated designs.
• Lead protection design for capital projects and define relay protection functions and schemes.
• Conduct constructability reviews to ensure adequate protection and automation coverage.

Skills

Substation protection & control engineering

Relay protection systems

IEC 61850

Fault studies / coordination studies

SCADA

Tools

ASPEN OneLiner

ETAP

Job description

Employment Type: Fixed-term contract (24 months)

Industry: Power Systems / Substation Projects

We're seeking a Protection & Control Engineer to support major substation projects on a long-term fixed-term contract. This role is fully remote with occasional travel as required.

Key Responsibilities

• Review existing substation protection schemes and incorporate them into updated designs (including anti-islanding, generator intertie settings, SPS, and other non-standard schemes).
• Lead protection design for capital projects and define relay protection functions and schemes.
• Review contractor relay settings, logic diagrams (including IEC 61850 / GOOSE messaging), and operational descriptions.
• Perform or review relay coordination studies and assess required levels of system coordination based on changes in fault duty or system performance.
• Review relay settings for temporary builds, mobile units, and staged construction sequences.
• Provide input to system modelling tools (e.g., ASPEN OneLiner) for protection-related updates.
• Support implementation, testing, and commissioning of protection and automation systems.
• Provide feedback and recommendations to improve internal protection and design standards.
• Ensure all as-built documentation is captured and stored correctly.
• Lead automation and integration design at substation level, including SCADA point lists, HMI screens/settings, and IED data mapping.
• Prepare substation operational descriptions (HMI operation, relay front-panel behaviour, etc.).
• Review digital substation maintenance data point lists.
• Track required licences, firewall access, and key automation/integration deliverables for project execution.
• Conduct constructability reviews to ensure adequate protection, automation, and SCADA coverage for all outage steps.

Key Requirements

• Strong experience in substation protection & control engineering.
• Knowledge of relay protection systems and settings.
• Familiarity with IEC 61850, GOOSE messaging, digital substations.
• Experience with fault studies / coordination studies (e.g., ASPEN, ETAP).
• Understanding of SCADA, HMI, and substation automation systems.
• Experience reviewing or delivering contractor design packages.
• Ability to support commissioning and testing activities.