Senior Principal Engineer (Team Leader) in Manchester

A Snapshot of Your Day

As a Senior Principal Engineer within Siemens Energy's UK Grid Technologies business, your day will be centred on leading and guiding a team of engineers to deliver high-quality primary engineering designs for UK transmission operator substations, particularly in support of renewable grid connections. You'll balance technical leadership with collaboration—working closely with clients, project managers, civil teams, and fellow engineering leads—while overseeing progress, resolving issues, and ensuring designs meet safety, quality, budget, and programme requirements. Reporting to the Head of Primary Engineering (UK), you'll play a visible role in technical meetings, design reviews, and monthly reporting, while also investing time in coaching and developing your team.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Lead a team to deliver the Primary engineering design adhering to the process and the Business strategy.
• Technical responsibility for primary design on substations. Accountable for approving primary engineering design within the department.
• Responsible for co-ordination with the client, civil, project management and other interfaces and deliver a high-quality technical output from the team in line with the agreed delivery timescales and budget.
• Co-ordinate with the engineering planner and monitor the engineering progress of the project, escalating issues as and when required to the line manager.
• Responsible for ensuring design risk assessments/HAZIDs are in place for all design solutions and residual risks are passed on to the H&S file.
• Ensure consistency in design by chairing design reviews and adhering to design specifications, process. Co-ordinate with other principal engineers of his/her own team for design consistency.
• Responsible for signing off work packages with the project management & managing and getting approval of the extra hours where relevant from project management for any design change that evolves during the lifecycle of the project.
• Provide detailed monthly engineering reports, detailing highlights, project issues, project progress and resourcing to the Line Manager.
• Attend Technical meetings with the client.
• Take ownership and accountability for area of responsibility. Make a positive contribution to the team, department. Act as a coach to motivate the team. Set goals and clarify expectations of the team along with the Line Manager. Invest time to manage and facilitate the work of others. Respond to the ideas, concerns and needs of direct reports. Demonstrate support for professional development to maximize the potential of other junior team members.
• Coach new and junior members of the team.
• Abide by all business compliance requirements in line with Company policies, for example Business Conduct Guidelines & Confidential Information.
• Accountable for managing both his/her own time and that of others within the team, resources, programmes, and budgets to be productive in the workplace.

What You'll Bring

• A Degree in electrical engineering.
• Minimum of ten years of Primary engineering design experience within the Electricity Transmission and Distribution industry, at least 5 years in the UK as a lead design engineer, approving primary engineering design deliverables.
• Good working knowledge of grid connection requirements, constraints, and technologies.
• Excellent knowledge of technology, product roadmap and value engineering.
• Good working knowledge of client approval processes including type registration.
• Fully conversant with the latest Transmission and Distribution standards & technologies.
• Fully conversant with Health & Safety standards (including CDM regulations) applicable to the design of High Voltage substations.
• Excellent team skills, initiative, and customer orientation.
• Decision making, interpersonal and communication skills are essential.
• Fluent English mandatory (spoken and written).
• National Grid TP137 Desirable.

About the team

Our Grid Technologies business offers customers a broad portfolio of products, systems, solutions, and services geared around the key market trends of digitalization, decarbonization, grid stability and electrification. Our people are the drivers behind this. With expertise, passion, and commitment, we are working to transmit energy as efficiently and environmentally friendly as possible. Sound interesting? Join us and help make the difference.

Our Primary Engineering Team delivers the solutions for AC Grid Access Renewables projects to deliver green energy to the customers.

Who is Siemens Energy

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

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