Engineering Manager - Secondary

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A Snapshot of your day

As an Engineering Manager for the Secondary Engineering Team at Siemens Energy in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, GB, your role will be to lead a diverse team of more than 20 junior through to experienced engineers. You will be responsible for designing, testing, and deploying complex protection solutions for UK transmission operator substations, offshore renewable generation grid connection designs, and developing new solutions for future battery storage and hydrogen production. With the market expanding, your focus will be on growing and developing the team, collaborating with external partners to enhance delivery flexibility, and targeting new and existing customers with the latest technology solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a diverse team of more than 20 junior through to experienced engineers
• Design, test, and deploy complex protection solutions for UK transmission operator substations
• Develop offshore renewable generation grid connection designs
• Develop new solutions for future battery storage and hydrogen production
• Grow and develop the team
• Collaborate with external partners to enhance delivery flexibility
• Target new and existing customers with the latest technology solutions

Your skills and qualifications:

Reporting to the Head of Control and Protection for the UK and Ireland, you will bring the following skills and qualifications to the role:

• University degree in electrical engineering or other relevant qualification
• Extensive knowledge of control and protection engineering with a variety of UK power industry customers
• Excellent knowledge of technology, product roadmap, and value engineering
• Good working knowledge of UK client approval processes including type registration, ENA, and equipment approval
• Fluent English mandatory (spoken and written)
• Excellent team skills, initiative, and customer orientation

Join Siemens Energy

Be energized. Be you.

At Siemens Energy, our commitment is to make tomorrow different today, as we work towards a sustainable, CO2 neutral future. Our Grid Technologies business offers a wide range of products, systems, solutions, and services aligned with the key market trends of digitalization, decarbonization, grid stability, and electrification. Our people are the driving force behind this mission, bringing expertise, passion, and commitment to transmit energy as efficiently and environmentally friendly as possible. If this sounds interesting to you, join us and help make a difference.

Benefits

We offer a competitive base salary and annual bonus as part of our benefits package. We understand that each employee is unique and has different wants and needs, which is why we have a flexible benefits scheme that allows you to tailor your package accordingly. Our benefits also include 26 days of holiday (increasing with service), up to 10% pension contribution match, an excellent company share scheme, and employee discounts. We encourage discussions about flexibility requirements to promote agile working and innovation.