Senior Principal Engineer (Team Leader)
Siemens Energy
- English required
- Remote
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A Snapshot of Your DayAs 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• To Lead a team to deliver the Primary engineering design adhering to the process and the Business strategy• Technical responsibility for primary design on substations.
• Ensures consistency in design by chairing design reviews and adhering to design specifications, process. • Provide detailed monthly engineering reports, detailing highlights, project issues, project progress and resourcing to the Line Manager• Attends Technical meetings with the client • Takes ownership and accountability for area of responsibility. Makes a positive contribution to the team, department. Acts as a coach to motivate team.
Sets goals and clarifies expectations of the team along with the Line Manager. Invests time to manage and facilitate the work of others. Responds to the ideas, concerns and needs of direct reports. Demonstrates support for professional development to maximize the potential of other junior team members• Coaching new and junior members of the team• Abide by all business compliance
• 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. • Good working knowledge of grid connection
• 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 teamOur 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 Siemen’s EnergyAt 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. Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: Our Commitment to DiversityLucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power.
We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fuelled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences. Rewards/BenefitsOpportunities to work with a global teamOpportunities to work on and lead a variety of innovative projectsMedical
benefits Remote/Flexible workTime off/Paid holidays and parental leave Continual learning through the Learn@Siemens-Energy platform. Compensation: 0.000000 - 0.000000.
At a glance
- Employer
- Siemens Energy
- Location
- Manchester
- Posted
- 2 Jul 2026
- Source
- uk.whatjobs.com
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