Senior Substation Engineer

Salary: £59,800 - £89,800 + car /car allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time| Flexible First options available

Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

Join our Offshore AC Project Engineering team and take a leading technical role in the development of major electricity transmission infrastructure supporting Scotland's transition to Net Zero.

As Senior Substation Engineer, you'll work across our Island projects, helping shape technically complex AC infrastructure connecting into HVDC systems. With projects incorporating substations from 33kV to 400kV, grid control and stabilisation technology, this is an opportunity to use your technical expertise across some of our most significant transmission investment.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced substation or electrical engineer looking to broaden their influence, work on technically challenging infrastructure and help develop engineering capability across our growing team.

- Review and approve primary substation designs from up to 400kV throughout development and delivery, including single line diagrams, electrical layouts and scopes of work.

- Provide senior technical input into engineering decisions, identifying opportunities to improve specifications, introduce innovative technology and effectively manage engineering risk.

- Influence solutions across the wider project portfolio through technical challenge, peer review and collaborative decision-making.

- Provide technical leadership, coaching and support to Project Engineers, helping build capability across the Substation Engineering team.

- Work closely with engineering consultants, contractors and other supply-chain partners, providing technical direction and helping ensure high-quality engineering outcomes.

Base Location: For this role, we require successful applicants to be based from one of our Scottish locations and you'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in the office - Aberdeen, Perth, Inverness, Glasgow

Start your online application using the Apply Now box on this page. We only accept applications made online. We'll be in touch after the closing date to let you know if we'll be taking your application further. If you're offered a role with SSE, you'll need to complete a criminality check and a credit check before you start work.