Senior Principal Engineer; Team Leader

A Snapshot of Your Day

As a Senior Principal Engineer within Siemens Energy’s UK Grid Technologies business, your day will be centred on leading and guiding a team of engineers to deliver high-quality primary engineering designs for UK transmission operator substations, particularly in support of renewable grid connections. You’ll balance technical leadership with collaboration—working closely with clients, project managers, civil teams, and fellow engineering leads—while overseeing progress, resolving issues, and ensuring designs meet safety, quality, budget, and programme requirements.

Reporting to the Head of Primary Engineering (UK), you’ll play a visible role in technical meetings, design reviews, and monthly reporting, while also investing time in coaching and developing your team.

• Lead a team to deliver the Primary engineering design adhering to the process and the Business strategy
• Technical responsibility for primary design on substations and accountable for approving primary engineering design within the department
• Coordinate with the client, civil, project management and other interfaces and deliver a high-quality technical output from the team in line with agreed delivery timescales and budget
• Coordinate with the engineering planner and monitor engineering progress, escalating issues as and when required to the line manager
• Ensure design risk assessments/HAZIDs are in place for all design solutions and residual risks are passed on to the H&S file
• Ensure consistency in design by chairing design reviews and adhering to design specifications and process
• Coordinate with other principal engineers of the team for design consistency
• Sign off work packages with project management and manage approval of extra hours where relevant during project lifecycle
• Provide detailed monthly engineering reports, detailing highlights, project issues, project progress and resourcing to the Line Manager
• Attend technical meetings with the client
• Takes ownership and accountability for area of responsibility, acts as a coach, motivates the team, sets goals and clarifies expectations
• Coaching new and junior members of the team
• Abide by all business compliance requirements in line with Company policies
• Accountable for managing own and team time, resources, programmes and budgets for productivity

• A Degree in electrical engineering
• Minimum of ten years of primary engineering design experience within the Electricity Transmission and Distribution industry, including at least five years in the UK as a lead design engineer approving primary engineering design deliverables
• Good working knowledge of grid connection requirements, constraints and technologies
• Excellent knowledge of technology, product roadmap and value engineering
• Good working knowledge of client approval processes including type registration
• Fully conversant with the latest Transmission and Distribution standards and technologies
• Fully conversant with Health & Safety standards (including CDM regulations) applicable to the design of High Voltage substations
• Excellent team skills, initiative and customer orientation
• Decision making, interpersonal and communication skills
• Fluent English mandatory (spoken and written)
• National Grid TP137 desirable

• Opportunities to work with a global team
• Opportunities to work on and lead a variety of innovative projects
• Medical benefits
• Time off, paid holidays and parental leave
• Continual learning through the Learn@Siemens-Energy platform