Principal Protection and Control Engineer

Location/s:
York/Brighton/Glasgow/Altrincham

Recruiter contact:
Abhijeet Barpanda

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee‑owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.

Whatever your ambition, Mott Mac Donald is where people come to be brilliant.

Mott Mac Donald has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Protection & Control Engineer to join our expanding Power Transmission and Distribution team. The successful candidate will have following functions.

• Work on diverse, industry‑leading projects
• Develop innovative solutions for power transmission grid systems
• Ensure security of electricity supply
• Develop integration of renewable energy sources
• Bring large power infrastructure plans from concept to delivery stage

• Work on client transmission and distribution installations
• Contribute to feasibility studies for transmission
• Design and Specification
• Produce tender specifications for Protection and Control (P&C)
• Produce detailed design drawings for Protection and Control schemes
• Check detailed design drawings

• Carry out fault studies for transmission projects
• Calculate protection settings using fault study results
• Check fault studies and protection setting results

• Configure relays
• Advise on commissioning stage of projects
• Check commissioning documentation

The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across a number of sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation and transmission & distribution networks. Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle – from concept and design, to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension. Together with our clients, we’re helping to deliver the energy transition globally.

• Qualified to degree level and will ideally be, or working towards Chartered Engineer status
• Knowledge of relay designs and have experience of UK practices as well as experience of working on international projects
• Excellent communications skills
• UK Transmission & Distribution experience
• Extensive Protection and Control experience in an Electrical Engineering role
• Desirable:
  Qualifications to National Grid TP141 qualified Commissioning Engineer / Officer.
• Good working knowledge of HV equipment
• Experience in Protection systems using IEC
  61850 protocol
• Experience in North American Protection standards and practices
• The successful candidate will be expected to achieve design authorisation from UK’s National Grid and authorisation as a ‘person' under UK electrical utilities safety rules.

At Mott Mac Donald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well‑being, flexibility, and trust.

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

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