A Snapshot of Your Day
Siemens Energy is building a dedicated UK team to support the growing offshore renewable and HVDC interconnector market. This role leads a team of engineers delivering HVDC control and DC protection solutions for wind farm connections and interconnectors. Key responsibilities include design validation, managing engineering work packages, and promoting a "Right first time" culture through mentoring and process improvement.
Reporting to both UK and global department heads, the role involves managing up to 10 engineers, developing HVDC control and protection concepts, and coordinating innovative solutions. It also includes resource planning, employee training, and contributing to a globally integrated delivery model.
How You'll Make an Impact
- Lead and develop a team of up to 10 engineers focused on HVDC control and DC protection, including resource planning, mentoring, and training.
- Oversee technical delivery of DC Protection solutions across international HVDC projects, ensuring alignment with cost, time, and quality targets.
- Define and coordinate innovative control and protection concepts for HVDC systems in collaboration with global technical teams.
- Manage simulation studies using tools like PSCAD, MATLAB/Simulink, and LabVIEW, including model development, validation, and customer training.
- Support project management through technical discussions, customer engagement, and coordination with external partners and stakeholders.
- Promote continuous improvement across engineering processes, ensure compliance with safety standards, and drive collaboration across departments.
What You Bring
- Degree in electrical power or control engineering, ideally with a relevant MSc or PhD and industry experience.
- Strong knowledge of high-voltage applications, power transmission, power electronics, and HVDC systems.
- Expertise in control engineering and HVDC system modelling in both time and frequency domains.
- Proficient in power system simulation tools such as PSCAD/EMTDC, MATLAB/Simulink, and EMTP-RV.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills for customer engagement and collaboration.
- Fluent in English (spoken and written); German language skills are a plus.
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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