Principal​/Senior Consultant; Protection Studies Specialist

Principal / Senior Consultant (Protection Studies Specialist)

SALARY:Competitive and based on experience and qualifications.

LOCATION: Manchester or Glasgow city centre offices (Hybrid home working available)

THE POSITION

We’re searching for a Consultant with Protection Studies experience to join us at an exciting stage of our growth. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to impactful consultancy work, help shape client outcomes, and play an important part in the continued development of our services. In this role, you will have the chance to take ownership of meaningful work, collaborate with talented specialists, and make a genuine contribution to TNEI’s mission in the energy transition.

Whether you’re looking to step up into your next level of responsibility, develop your technical or consultancy skills, gain more exposure to client-facing work, or broaden your project portfolio, this role offers significant scope for growth. We understand that career journeys aren’t always linear, this opportunity may equally suit someone seeking a sideways move into a new team, discipline or environment where they can make a real difference and apply existing expertise in a fresh context.

At TNEI, you’ll be supported to shape a career pathway that fits your goals while contributing to high‑impact projects.

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Delivery;

• Lead and deliver protection studies for a wide range of generation, storage, transmission and distribution projects, acting as Project Manager and/or Technical Lead on consultancy commissions as required.
• Undertake protection coordination studies and determine unit protection relay settings for equipment, including transformers, reactors, generators, transmission lines, and cables etc.
• Perform protection design reviews and provide specialist technical advice during project development and detailed design stages.
• Review and approve protection philosophies, protection settings reports, and technical documentation. Ensure quality assurance and compliance with relevant industry standards, regulations, and company procedures.
• Support proposals, technical bids, business development and develop strong client relationships across developers, network operators, OEMs, and EPC contractors.
• Mentor and train junior consultants and collaborate across power systems, EMT, earthing, and grid compliance teams.

REQUIREMENTS

Essential requirements include:

• Degree qualified in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• Significant experience delivering protection engineering consultancy services for transmission, distribution, renewable generation, and/or industrial power systems.
• Strong understanding of protection principles for HV, EHV, and MV electrical networks and extensive experience in protection coordination and relay settings studies.
• Knowledge of protection logic diagrams and experience developing relay setting schedules using software such as MiCOM Agile, PCM
  600, and SEL AcSELerator.
• Thorough understanding of relevant industry standards and requirements and experience using industry standard protection and power system software.
• Ability to analyse fault performance and assess protection system behaviour under various network operating conditions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to manage projects, client relationships, and technical deliverables.
• Chartered Engineer status (CEng) or working towards chartership.
• Postgraduate degree in Electrical Power Engineering.
• Experience of transmission-connected renewable generation projects.
• Experience performing earthing design and safety assessments using CDEGS or equivalent software.
• Experience carrying out electromagnetic interference (EMI),…