Senior Protection & Control Engineer — Hybrid

Siemens Mobility; South Tyneside; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-Based Bonus

Flexible Working Hours

Pension Plan

26 days annual leave (+5 days)

Job summary

Siemens Smart Infrastructure is seeking a Senior Service Engineer in Hebburn to support the Protection & Control systems across the UK’s Transmission and Distribution network. You will fault-find, test, commission, and provide technical support to ensure safe, reliable operations and adherence to service commitments.

The role involves on-call duties, site visits, and developing protection solutions while producing required documentation and FAT/SAT testing.

Qualifications

• BEng in Electrical Engineering or equivalent industry experience.
• Experience in Electricity Transmission & Distribution.
• Protection & Control and/or Control Systems engineering experience, ideally on Transmission projects.
• Strong fault-finding, testing and commissioning experience.

Responsibilities

• Participate in an on-call support rota and respond to customer network issues.
• Provide remote technical support under SLAs.
• Diagnose and resolve faults across Protection & Control systems.
• Log customer incidents and produce service reports.
• Attend customer sites to investigate faults and implement solutions.
• Develop and configure Protection & Control solutions.
• Produce and review engineering documentation (FDS, I/O Schedules).
• Create test schedules and support testing activities.
• Carry out FAT and SAT testing.
• Ensure solutions comply with customer specs and industry standards.
• Work with SIPROTEC 5 and SICAM technologies.

Skills

Fault finding

Testing

Commissioning

On-call support

Cyber security awareness

Education

BEng in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Siemens SIPROTEC 5

SICAM PASS/SCC

Job description

Siemens Smart Infrastructure is seeking a Senior Service Engineer in Hebburn to support the Protection & Control systems across the UK’s Transmission and Distribution network. You will fault-find, test, commission, and provide technical support to ensure safe, reliable operations and adherence to service commitments.

The role involves on-call duties, site visits, and developing protection solutions while producing required documentation and FAT/SAT testing.