Overview

Protection & Control Senior Engineer

ScottishPower, St Vincent Street, Glasgow. G2 5AD

Salary from £57,600 with up to 15% Annual Bonus and Single Healthcare

Permanent

Closing Date: 21st October 2025

Purpose

Join us in shaping the future of renewable energy. As a Senior Protection & Control Engineer, you will lead the design and integration of advanced Protection, Control and Metering systems for large-scale Offshore wind farms, ensuring technical excellence and compliance with international and industry standards. Your work will directly contribute to delivering clean energy to millions of homes.

Responsibilities

Ensuring that Protection, Control and Metering (PCM) systems are designed and delivered in accordance with regulations, industry relevant standards and best practices, you will manage and technically lead Protection, Control and Metering systems from tendering through all execution processes.

Collaborating with Contract Managers for terms/specification to secure best value and minimise costs/risks, you will ensure that designs developed by different Contractors involved are consistent, technically safe and coordinated with the rest of the windfarm design.

Managing interfaces with Contractors, Consultants and internal teams, you will be required to provide professional advice on engineering technical aspects and risk levels, ensuring that cost effective solutions are identified.Justification of technical decisions are also required to ensure all assessments, recommendations and decisions are fully documented and that sufficient technical and commercial due diligence is in place.

Leading and coordinating Project Engineers, Consultants and Contractors where required to deliver the package for the project, you will ensure adequate testing is passed before delivery of the system to site, including witness to inspections and FAT at Contractor's facilities.

Supporting commissioning activities for key engineering design items to ensure assets are effectively commissioned for transfer into O&M phase, you will ensure all Health and Safety and Environmental requirements are fully considered and adhered to in design.

What you\'ll bring

With experience in Protection, Control and Metering system design and specification (protection philosophy, control architecture, I/O lists), you will display a proven track record in managing PCM contracts, including cost, risk and stakeholder coordination.

Educated to degree level in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, you will be flexible to travel within the UK and overseas when required.

What’s in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it's the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action - our benefits are designed to help you do just that -so that you have everything you need to take care of your world - today and tomorrow. That's why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave

• Holiday purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave

• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme

• Payroll giving and charity matched funding

• Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases

• Count us in - pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change

• Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving

• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments

• Life Assurance (4x salary)

• Access to nudge\' financial wellbeing support

• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why ScottishPower

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world\'s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we're at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in.

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers scottishpower.com .