Siemens Energy

A Snapshot of Your Day

As Design Team Leader in Grid Solutions (GA’s & Interfacing), you’ll lead daily briefings, coordinate with cross-functional teams, and oversee the delivery of HV Substation Protection Engineering documentation. A key part of the role involves mentoring, conducting performance evaluations, providing technical guidance, and fostering a collaborative environment. You’ll also contribute to strategic planning, aligning design initiatives with long-term goals, while managing multiple projects, liaising with clients, and ensuring alignment with budget, timelines, and compliance standards.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Lead a small team and collaborate with design subcontractors to deliver engineering outputs for panel manufacture and site construction, while supporting team development and training.
• Manage multiple project deliverables, resolving technical and scheduling issues, and fostering a proactive, motivated team environment.
• Ensure quality and efficiency by implementing design change control processes, addressing non-conformances, and allocating resources to meet performance targets.
• Prioritise workloads and maintain compliance with company procedures to meet deadlines and quality standards.
• Build strong client relationships by attending meetings, communicating effectively, and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Drive innovation through new tools, design improvements, and coaching of trainees and apprentices, while recognising achievements and supporting business improvement efforts.

What You Bring

• ONC/HNC in Electrical Engineering with proven experience in Electricity Transmission and Distribution, including 2 years in UK Transmission Systems, and familiarity with current standards, technologies, and sustainability practices.
• Proven leadership in resolving technical issues, coordinating design solutions, supporting recruitment, and promoting safe working practices in line with company policies.
• Strong technical expertise in automated panel and cable design tools (e.g., Engineering Base, Elecdes, Eplan), with experience reviewing key engineering documents and applying health and safety standards.
• Effective communicator with solid project management skills, a flexible approach to problem-solving, and a commitment to innovation and continuous improvement.

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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