Overview
In this Senior Lead Engineer role, you act as the technical authority across regulated sectors, guiding complex projects and ensuring regulatory compliance. You will lead multidisciplinary teams, shape technical approaches, and drive safe, high-quality delivery. The position sits within ABB’s energy industries focus, delivering innovative solutions and supporting the energy transition. You’ll collaborate with customers and stakeholders to solve critical challenges and raise the bar on engineering excellence.
Pay / Benefits
- competitive salary
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- pension scheme
- life assurance
- private medical cover
- company car or car allowance
Responsibilities
- Serve as technical authority for assigned industry sectors, ensuring compliance with regulations and ABB practices
- Lead and mentor multidisciplinary engineering teams and promote knowledge sharing
- Define technical approaches, milestones, and resource plans across concurrent projects
- Conduct technical reviews, risk assessments and compliance evaluations for project delivery
- Lead regulatory change assessments and implement compliant solutions
- Act as senior escalation point for complex engineering, operational and regulatory challenges
- Build trusted relationships with customers, industry bodies and stakeholders throughout bids and execution
- Ensure delivery to scope, schedule and budget while driving continuous improvement
Key requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or HNC/HND with substantial industry experience
- Experience in engineering or technical roles within highly regulated industries (Power, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceuticals, Nuclear, Offshore)
- Experience leading engineering teams or as a recognized technical specialist
- Strong knowledge of process control systems, industrial automation, instrumentation and multidisciplinary projects
- Expertise in ABB system upgrades/modernisation or gas turbine replacement/renewal systems
- Working knowledge of IEC 61508/61511, IEC 62682, IEC 61882 and related directives
- Experience with PLC, SCADA and DCS architectures, configuration and implementation
- Strong project delivery capability including risk management, resource planning and stakeholder engagement
- Professional Engineering registration and/or Functional Safety certification (desirable)
- Experience contributing to technical communities or energy transition technologies (desirable)
- leadership and mentoring
- stakeholder engagement
- clear communication
- process control systems
- industrial automation
- instrumentation
Senior Lead Engineer in Warrington employer: ABB
At ABB, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters collaboration and continuous learning. With a strong commitment to employee growth, we provide numerous opportunities for professional development, mentorship, and internal mobility, all while ensuring a healthy work-life balance through flexible working arrangements. Join us in the UK and Ireland, where your contributions will not only drive our success but also create a meaningful impact on the world around us.
