Team Lead Protection and Control Engineer

"We energize society" by supporting our customers to make the transition to a more sustainable world, based on innovative technologies and our ability to turn ideas into reality. With nearly 100,000 employees around the world, we shape the energy systems of today and tomorrow.

Team Lead Protection and Control Engineer About the Role

Job

301046

Location

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Newcastle up Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne

• UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND
• England
• Manchester

Company

Siemens Energy Limited

Organization

Grid Technologies

Business Unit

Digital Grid

Full-time

Experience Level

Manager / Team Leader

A Snapshot of Your Day Imagine leading a dynamic engineering team where your focus is on empowering others and driving continuous improvement. In this role, you will allocate work, manage priorities, and resolve conflicts while supporting your engineers through both technical and professional challenges. You will represent your domain in discussions with Project Managers, customers, and other discipline leads, ensuring that standards and ways of working remain consistent across the team.

Your leadership will not only shape the team’s capabilities but also influence hiring and development decisions, allowing you to make a significant impact on the team’s success.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Lead daily operations:
  You will run day-to-day activities for the team, ensuring effective allocation of work and management of priorities and conflicts.
• Own capability and standards:
  Ensure consistent ways of working across the team, maintaining high standards in all deliverables.
• Coach and develop engineers:
  Support your team’s technical and professional growth by identifying capability gaps and shaping development plans.
• Influence hiring and promotions:
  Play a key role in building a strong, well-rounded team by contributing to hiring and promotion decisions.
• Act as a senior point of contact:
  Represent your domain in project discussions, collaborating with customers and cross-discipline teams to drive success.

What You Bring

• Leadership experience:
  Proven experience in leading, coaching, or mentoring engineers, with a genuine interest in their development.
• Strong communication skills:
  Ability to effectively manage stakeholders and represent your domain confidently to customers and senior leadership.
• Judgment under pressure: A track record of making sound decisions while balancing team well-being, delivery pressure, and quality.
• Technical credibility:
  Senior-level experience in protection and control engineering for High Voltage substations, enabling you to challenge and support your team effectively.
• Collaborative leadership style: A servant-leadership approach that empowers others while holding accountability.

EU citizens who are willing to relocate to the UK will be considered.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With over 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.

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.

• 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
• Access to a variety of employee resource groups