Siemens Gamesa

A Snapshot of Your Day
As the Primary Engineering Team Lead, you will lead a dynamic team of engineers, ensuring the delivery of innovative engineering solutions throughout the project lifecycle. You will collaborate closely with clients and stakeholders, driving performance and fostering a culture of continuous improvement within the team.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Lead the delivery of Primary Engineering solutions across projects, ensuring safe and effective designs throughout the substation lifecycle.
• Manage team performance through staff dialogues, 1-2-1 meetings, set clear objectives, maintain the team skills matrix, and support professional development.
• Maintain focus on cost, time, and quality, ensuring compliance with engineering processes and customer specifications.
• Oversee design governance, including approval of technical solutions, specifications, risk assessments, quality plans and supplier evaluations, ensuring consistency in outputs.
• Monitor design performance, budgets, and tender activities, supporting procurement as needed.
• Manage resources and workload planning, utilising internal and external teams to meet project demands.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across functions to ensure alignment and effective delivery.
• Drive performance, innovation, and continuous improvement in tools, processes, and designs.
• Promote strong coordination between design, site, and other departments, participating in key technical meetings.
• Support process improvements and technology integration, including technical design approvals.
• Provide leadership through performance management and team development, fostering high standards.

What You Bring

• HNC or degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
• Professional Engineering (e.g., Chartered) status, or currently working towards completion.
• Minimum of 12 years’ experience in the Electricity Transmission and Distribution industry, with ideally 6 years in UK Transmission Systems.
• Fully conversant with the latest Transmission and Distribution standards and technologies.
• Strong knowledge of Health and Safety standards applicable to Primary Engineering.
• Proven experience in managing teams and delivering engineering solutions.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proactive problem-solving approach.
• Practical knowledge of Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, Outlook).

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

• 26 days holiday, increasing to 29 days with time served.
• Access to a flexible benefits portal for private medical cover, cycle-to-work schemes, and more.
• A class-leading adjustable pension scheme.
• Opportunities for career development and continuous learning.
• The chance to work on cutting-edge projects that shape the future of Siemens Energy and manufacturing.