Senior Electrical Engineer (High Voltage)
Location: Midlands or Southern England, with UK-wide travel
Salary: Competitive salary + vehicle + bonus
Employment: Permanent, full-time
Practical high-voltage plant experience is essential for this appointment.
An established UK renewable energy operator is looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer who can provide hands‑on and technical support across its portfolio of operational assets.
This is not a design-only position. You will work directly with site teams and contractors to diagnose faults, support testing and repairs, investigate recurring defects and improve the reliability of HV and LV electrical systems.
Alongside this practical responsibility, you will lead electrical upgrades, coordinate engineering projects and provide technical guidance to a small team of Electrical Engineers.
What you’ll be doing
- Supporting fault-finding, testing, maintenance and repairs across high-voltage electrical systems
- Investigating issues involving transformers, switchgear, cables, joints, terminations and protection relays
- Working with operational teams and contractors to identify safe, practical engineering solutions
- Reviewing maintenance reports and recurring defects to identify risks and reliability improvements
- Leading root cause investigations and implementing corrective actions
- Managing electrical upgrades and engineering projects from concept through to delivery
- Reviewing specifications, designs and technical documentation
- Coordinating project programmes, budgets, engineering resources and contractors
- Helping sites identify replacements for obsolete electrical equipment
- Ensuring work complies with applicable engineering standards and safety requirements
- Mentoring Electrical Engineers and providing practical technical guidance
- Preparing engineering reports and communicating findings to operational and management stakeholders
- Travelling to operational sites throughout the UK, occasionally at short notice
What we’re looking for
- Strong practical experience working with high‑voltage plant and apparatus
- Hands‑on involvement in HV fault‑finding, testing, maintenance, repair or technical investigations
- Detailed knowledge of transformers, switchgear, cables, joints and terminations
- Experience working with protection systems and relays
- At least five years of relevant electrical engineering experience
- An Electrical Engineering degree, HND, HNC or equivalent qualification
- Experience improving, maintaining or operating electrical systems
- Ability to assess technical problems on site and develop safe, practical solutions
- Experience coordinating engineering projects, resources or contractors
- Strong problem‑solving and root cause analysis capabilities
- Ability to support and develop other engineers
- Full UK driving licence
Package
- Business-use vehicle
- Annual Bonus
- £1,500 annual flexible benefits allowance, paid monthly
- Employer pension contribution of 10% based on a 5% employee contribution
- 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
- Annual leave increasing with service, up to 30 days
- Option to purchase five additional days of annual leave
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