About the Role
Location
United Kingdom
Newcastle up Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne
- Country: United Kingdom
- State/Province/County: England
- City: Manchester
- Country: United Kingdom
- State/Province/County: England
- City: Leeds
- Country: United Kingdom
- State/Province/County: Scotland
- City: Edinburgh
Remote vs. Office
Hybrid (Remote/Office)
Company
Siemens Energy Limited
Organization
Grid Technologies
Business Unit
Digital Grid
Full / Part time
Full-time
Experience Level
Not defined
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
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. We meet the growing energy demand across 90+ countries while ensuring our climate is protected. With more than 92,000 dedicated employees, we not only generate electricity for over 16% of the global community, but we’re also using our technology to help protect people and the environment.
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.
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 motivated 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.