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Senior​/Principal Protection & Control Engineer

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Full Time position Listed on 2026-11-15
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Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 70000 - 80000 GBP Yearly GBP 70000.00 80000.00 YEAR

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Senior / Principal Protection & Control Engineer

Vacancy

Title:

Senior / Principal Protection & Control Engineer

Vacancy

Title:

Senior / Principal Protection & Control Engineer Contract Type:
Permanent

Location:

Glasgow Industry: Mechanical & Electrical Engineering TECHNICAL & ENGINEERING Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum

Start Date:

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Ben Evans Contact Email:  Vacancy Published: about 20 hours ago Senior / Principal Protection & Control Engineer

Glasgow (Hybrid)

Are you a protection and control engineer with a strong background in HV substations? Would you like to provide technical leadership on major UK transmission and distribution projects? Are you ready to mentor others and help grow a specialist engineering team?

Then this could be the right move for you. We're looking for a Senior / Principal Protection & Control Engineer to lead the design and delivery of protection, control and substation systems, from concept through to commissioning support.

What's in it for you?
  • Salary of up to £80,000, depending on experience and level of appointment
  • Annual bonus scheme of up to 15% of salary, based on individual and business performance
  • Hybrid working - 3 days in the office and 2 days from home
  • 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays, and an extra day off for your birthday
  • Contributory pension scheme
  • Healthcare cash plan
  • Enhanced company sick pay and enhanced family leave
  • Salary sacrifice electric vehicle scheme
  • £150 a year towards your personal learning and development
  • Ongoing technical training, support towards professional accreditation and clear routes for progression
  • Employee Assistance Programme
What will you be doing?
  • Leading P&C design packages for HV substations, from concept and detailed design through to construction and commissioning support
  • Developing and reviewing protection schemes, control philosophies, logic diagrams, schematics, wiring diagrams and equipment specifications
  • Overseeing protection relays, substation control systems, interlocking, communications and SCADA integration
  • Applying UK transmission and distribution standards, National Grid requirements and client specifications
  • Acting as technical checker or approver, and resolving complex design issues
  • Leading, coaching and mentoring P&C engineers and designers
  • Working closely with primary electrical, civil and structural, project management and commissioning teams
  • Building client relationships through design reviews and technical meetings, and supporting bids and proposals
  • Helping develop capability in SCADA, substation cyber security, modern control architectures and HVDC
Where you'll be doing it?

Our client delivers specialist engineering and design services across the UK electricity transmission and distribution sector. Part of a large international energy and engineering group, they are growing their Protection & Control team and play an active part in the UK's energy transition. You'll be working on significant UK energy infrastructure projects, with real opportunities to progress across the wider group.

What

you'll need:
  • A degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline
  • Extensive protection and control experience on HV substations within UK transmission and distribution
  • Strong knowledge of protection schemes, control systems, substation design documentation and UK network standards
  • Experience carrying out technical reviews and design assurance on demanding projects
  • The ability to lead technical delivery and manage multi-discipline interfaces against programme
  • Confident communication and client-facing skills, with commercial awareness
  • The ability to mentor and develop engineers
  • The right to work in the UK
It would be great if you also had:
  • Chartered Engineer (CEng) status, or be working towards it
  • National Grid CDAE…

Position Requirements

10+ Years work experience
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