Team Lead Substation Automation - Digital Grid

Reporting to Engineering Manager EC2, you will lead the day-to-day running and continuous improvement of an engineering team within Grid Automation, owning capability, standards and delivery within your domain. This is first and foremost a leadership role: you will spend more of your time on people, coordination and decision-making than on hands-on technical work, while drawing on your own senior technical background to support, challenge and develop the team.

Your day is built around the team rather than a single piece of technical work. You will allocate work, manage priorities and resolve conflicts, support engineers through technical and professional challenges, and make sure standards and ways of working stay consistent across the team. You will represent your domain in conversations with Customers, Project Managers and other discipline leads, and you will input to hiring, promotion and development decisions. You will stay close enough to the technical detail to ask the right questions and challenge the team’s thinking, without needing to be the one solving every problem yourself.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Run day-to-day operations for the team, allocating work and managing priorities and conflicts, and support resourcing and planning conversations, balancing team capacity against project demand.
• Own domain capability and standards, ensuring consistent ways of working across the team, and contribute to broader engineering leadership activity, including consistency across teams, shared standards and continuous improvement.
• Coach and support engineers’ technical and professional development, identifying capability gaps and shaping development plans, and provide input to hiring and promotion decisions, helping build and sustain a strong, well-rounded team.
• Act as the senior point of contact for your domain in project, customer and cross-discipline discussions, communicating clearly and confidently with engineers, customers, suppliers and senior stakeholders, adapting style to the audience.
• Challenge and quality-check the team’s technical work, using your own experience to ask the right questions rather than doing the work yourself, and escalate and resolve risks and issues that affect the team’s ability to deliver, raising these early with Project Managers and stakeholders.
• Own digitalisation and continuous improvement for your domain, identifying opportunities to phase out manual processes, adopt new tools and lift engineering efficiency and quality; sponsor adoption of new engineering tools and digital workflows within the team, balancing pace of change against delivery commitments; and track and report on efficiency, quality and capability improvements within your domain, using these to inform resourcing, training and process decisions .

• Degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline. +15 years of experience, including at least 10 years in High Voltage substation automation systems.

Proven experience leading, coaching or mentoring engineers, with a genuine interest in people development, and experience allocating work, managing competing priorities and resolving conflict within a technical team.

• Senior-level technical credibility in the domain, with the ability to challenge, support and guide engineers rather than direct every technical decision.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to represent the domain to Customers, Project Managers, senior leadership and other key stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to make sound judgement calls under pressure, balancing team wellbeing, delivery commitments and quality outcomes.
• A collaborative, servant-leadership style, with the ability to empower others, drive accountability and step back from technical detail when appropriate.
• A genuine interest in engineering process improvement and digitalisation, including evaluating, adopting and supporting new tools and methods that improve efficiency and quality.
• English language proficiency at B2/C1 level for non-native English speakers.
• Candidates living outside the US and interested in relocation may be considered, subject to valid work authorization requirements, Siemens Energy support options, and applicable US immigration regulations.

About the Team

You bring senior-level experience in substation automation engineering for High Voltage substations, including the design of advanced control systems, subsystems and IEDs seamless integration, configuration and hands-on testing, with growing familiarity in Digital Substations and virtualization trends shaping modern SAS architectures. Additionally, you have a deep knowledge to implement robust OT cybersecurity measures. You are quite familiar to work with SCADA platforms like SEL and Zenon and you will apply your best knowledge of north and latin american utilities practices and industry standards such as IEC 61850 and NERC CIP.

• Career growth and development opportunities; supportive work culture
• Company paid Health and wellness benefits
• Paid Time Off and paid holidays
• Parental leave
• Opportunity to work with a global team
• Additional rewards based on your country will be further discussed with the hiring team

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