Senior Protection and Control Engineer

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For this role, we require successful applicants to be based from one of our Scottish locations – Glasgow, Perth, Aberdeen & Inverness.

£55,200 - £83,000 + car / cash allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.

Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available.

As part of SSEN Transmissions Offshore Portfolio of works, we have an opportunity for a Senior Protection and Control Engineer to join our newly formed Offshore HVAC Project Engineering team to help drive forward our Island and Offshore projects and successfully deliver a network for Net Zero. Our Island and Offshore projects facilitate the connection to our HVDC systems and include state-of-the-art AC plant, grid control and stabilisation technology.

• Provide senior technical guidance to ensure successful output of Protection and Control deliverables and leadership in defining the scope, project approach and resolution of key risks across the 132kV, 275V and 400kV transmission network in our licence area.
• Execute complex assignments requiring the use of advanced techniques, resulting in the development of new or improved processes, equipment, and/or technological methods.
• Implement and comply with CDM procedures and practices, and all other regulatory requirements associated with the nature of substation and electrical system design.
• Produce detailed electricity substation Protection & Control design packages compliant to client and national technical standards, including outline scheme designs and Key Line Diagrams; scopes and specifications for new build substations as well as modification to existing.
• Support in the mentoring and guidance for less experienced engineers within your team, to support in the growth of Protection and Control capability within the business and proactively manage consultants and contractors to drive decision making.

To be considered for this role, we would love you to have:

• Demonstrable experience in Protection and Control engineering including development, design and specification with clear ability to technically assess issues, and critically produce a range of technical solutions.
• An excellent technical understanding of relevant legislation, including CDM and ESQCR, and the implications of this for Transmission network management is essential.
• Effective communication skills, and you must be able to communicate often complex technical issues clearly and concisely to facilitate decision making by senior management. You will be able to communicate effectively with key stakeholders at all levels both internally and externally, with an appetite for building strong, lasting relationships.
• Keen focus on driving continuous improvements in business processes, procedures and systems and a passion for developing junior staff. Experience in organising or delivering training and development for protection and control engineers would be preferable.
• Ideally hold an honours degree in electrical engineering, or another relevant engineering discipline, and be a Chartered Engineer in a relevant institution or working towards chartered status.

SSE's purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plan sees us investing £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030.

SSEN Transmission own and operate the electricity transmission network across the north of Scotland. We transport energy from where it is generated to where it is needed, ensuring a safe and reliable electricity supply for the communities we serve. But that's not all – we're upgrading the grid to deliver cleaner, homegrown energy for the future and building a network for net zero to create secure power for generations to come.

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