Principal Protection & Control Engineer
Duration: 12-months
Rate: £80 - £100 per hour (outside IR35)
Location: Remote
Our client is a leading engineering and design consultancy who specialise in providing services to the engineering sector.
As a Principal Control/SCS/SCADA Engineer you will be working on engineering and construction projects primarily in industrial, transmission/distribution and renewable sectors.
You must be able to appreciate complex, practical, regulatory, technical and commercial issues and to work constructively with a broad range of senior stakeholders.
Role accountabilities:
• Responsible for the design of transmission substation Control/SCS/SCADA systems for voltages up to 400 kV.
• Reviewing in-house designs and those produced by external contractors.
• Responsible for delivering tender design man-hours estimates, deliverables lists, design programs.
• Leading and guiding junior engineers through various Control/SCS/SCADA engineering tasks by offering technical advice and support.
• Experience in the concepts required in the safe design and operation of electrical networks, and development construction.
• Advising on design and design change issues.
• Specialist in an Electrical field but experience and extensive knowledge of other Engineering fields would be advantageous.
• Substantial experience with Construction and Design Management (CDM).
• Ensure that design projects are undertaken by competent personnel and sub-contractors reviewing designs created by others.
• Challenging, proposing, agreeing and implementing alternative solutions compared with those dictated by the transmission specifications, policies, processes and “best practices”.
• Accountable for the effective delivery of the assigned tasks and deliverables of projects to time, to the required quality and to budget.
• Undertake site visits / non-intrusive surveys as required as part of the design activities or as part of site support.
• Ensuring risks are proactively identified, assessed and managed to avoid adverse impacts on the project.
• Identification, assessment and adoption of the best technical solution.
• Client Interface management comprising: infrastructure planners, project resource, Direct Labour / Construction te...
Principal Protection & Control Engineer in East Kilbride employer: Morson Edge
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