Lead Control Automation System Engineer

Ready to bring your skills into a role where your thinking, problem-solving and technical curiosity can help power the future? Our Lead Control & Protection Engineer role offers someone with transferable strengths, fresh perspectives and the drive to learn the opportunity to grow and make an impact on the energy transition. This role would suit an engineer with strong systems thinking, modelling, analysis, and technical leadership skills who wants to apply their expertise in a new domain. You may come from adjacent industries such as power systems, electrical engineering, automation, simulation, controls, protection, rail, aerospace, oil and gas, utilities, or other complex engineering environments where safety, reliability, and technical rigour are essential. Build and use simulation models to assess system behaviour and performance • Review technical solutions, identify risks, and propose safe, reliable, and compliant approaches • Support dynamic performance studies and investigate system behaviour under fault and disturbance conditions Confidence in building and running simple models with guidance, checking results carefully and using data to support clear, reliable conclusions. • A structured approach to control system configuration, testing and troubleshooting, with an understanding of how information moves through a system. • In this role, you help shape reliable solutions that make a real difference to our customers and the energy transition. This is a chance to work on complex, high-impact engineering challenges with a collaborative team. You’ll have the opportunity to develop deep specialist knowledge while bringing fresh thinking from outside the industry and develop existing and new skills. Relocation Assistance Provided: No