Overview

Job Description

Location/s: York/Brighton/Glasgow

Recruiter contact: Abhijeet Barpanda

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual. Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you're surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the role

Mott MacDonald has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Protection & Control Engineer to join our expanding Power Transmission and Distribution team. The successful candidate will have the following functions.

Responsibilities

Project Development

• Work on diverse, industry-leading projects
• Develop innovative solutions for power transmission grid systems
• Ensure security of electricity supply
• Develop integration of renewable energy sources
• Bring large power infrastructural plans from concept to delivery stage

Client Engagement

• Work on client transmission and distribution installations
• Contribute to feasibility studies for transmission
• Design and specification
• Produce tender specifications for Protection and Control (P&C)
• Produce detailed design drawings for Protection and Control schemes
• Check detailed design drawings

Fault Studies and Protection

• Carry out fault studies for transmission projects
• Calculate protection settings using fault study results
• Check fault studies and protection setting results

Commissioning

• Configure relays
• Advise on commissioning stage of projects
• Check commissioning documentation

About the business unit

The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across a number of sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable and transmission & distribution networks. Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle – from concept and design, to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension. Together with our clients, we're helping to deliver the energy transition globally.

Candidate Specification

• Qualified to degree level and will ideally be, or working towards Chartered Engineer status
• Knowledge of relay designs and have experience of UK practices as well as experience of working on international projects
• Excellent communications skills
• UK Transmission & Distribution experience
• Extensive Protection and Control experience in an Electrical Engineering role
• Desirable: Qualifications to Grid TP141 qualified Commissioning Engineer / Officer
• Good working knowledge of HV equipment in Protection systems using IEC61850 protocol
• Experience in North American Protection standards and practices
• The successful candidate will be expected to achieve design authorisation from UK's Grid and authorisation as a ‘person' under UK electrical utilities safety rules

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality and accessibility

We put equality and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Benefits

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Health and wellbeing: Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues; Health cash plan; Peppy access for menopause support; well-being program; flexible benefits to include family cover
• Financial wellbeing: Pension contributions match; Life assurance up to 4x (option to 6x); Income protection; Flexible benefits; Annual bonus schemes
• Lifestyle: 33-35 days holiday; holiday entitlement increases after 5 years; employee saving schemes and discounts
• Enhanced family and carers leave: 26 weeks paid maternity/adoption leave; 2 weeks paid paternity/partner leave; shared parental leave up to 24 weeks at full pay; up to five additional days for caring responsibilities
• Learning and development: Professional institution subscription; mentoring and training opportunities
• Networks and social outcomes: Access to employee networks and community impact opportunities

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