A Snapshot of Your Day As the Primary Engineering Team Lead, you will lead a dynamic team of engineers, ensuring the delivery of innovative engineering solutions throughout the project lifecycle. You will collaborate closely with clients and stakeholders, driving performance and fostering a culture of continuous improvement within the team.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Lead the delivery of Primary Engineering solutions across projects, ensuring safe and effective designs throughout the substation lifecycle.
- Manage team performance through staff dialogues, 1-2-1 meetings, set clear objectives, maintain the team skills matrix, and support professional development.
- Maintain focus on cost, time, and quality, ensuring compliance with engineering processes and customer specifications.
- Oversee design governance, including approval of technical solutions, specifications, risk assessments, quality plans and supplier evaluations, ensuring consistency in outputs.
- Monitor design performance, budgets, and tender activities, supporting procurement as needed.
- Manage resources and workload planning, utilising internal and external teams to meet project demands.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across functions to ensure alignment and effective delivery.
- Drive performance, innovation, and continuous improvement in tools, processes, and designs.
- Promote strong coordination between design, site, and other departments, participating in key technical meetings.
- Support process improvements and technology integration, including technical design approvals.
- Provide leadership through performance management and team development, fostering high standards.
What You Bring
- HNC or degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
- Professional Engineering (e.g., Chartered) status, or currently working towards completion.
- Minimum of 12 years’ experience in the Electricity Transmission and Distribution industry, with ideally 6 years in UK Transmission Systems.
- Fully conversant with the latest Transmission and Distribution standards and technologies.
- Strong knowledge of Health and Safety standards applicable to Primary Engineering.
- Proven experience in managing teams and delivering engineering solutions.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proactive problem-solving approach.
- Practical knowledge of Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, Outlook).
A bout the Team
Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.