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# Senior / Principal Protection & Control Engineer

- **Company:** NMS Recruit Ltd
- **Location:** Leicester, United Kingdom
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £70,000 - £80,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cyber Security, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Schematic Capture
- **Published:** November 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.cv-library.co.uk/job/225832805/Senior-Principal-Protection-Control-Engineer

## About the Role

*A degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline
*Extensive protection and control experience on HV substations within UK transmission and distribution
*Strong knowledge of protection schemes, control systems, substation design documentation and UK network standards
*Experience carrying out technical reviews and design assurance on demanding projects
*The ability to lead technical delivery and manage multi-discipline interfaces against programme
*Confident communication and client-facing skills, with commercial awareness
*The ability to mentor and develop engineers
*The right to work in the UK
It would be great if you also had:
*Chartered Engineer (CEng) status, or be working towards it
*National Grid CDAE or LCDAE accreditation relevant to P&C
*Experience in SCADA, earthing, HV/MV cabling, EPC delivery, construction or commissioning
*Experience of technical bids, cyber security, HVDC or emerging substation technologies
We appreciate your CV may not be up to date. No problem, just apply and we can deal with that later.

## Description

Are you a protection and control engineer with a strong background in HV substations?
Would you like to provide technical leadership on major UK transmission and distribution projects?
Are you ready to mentor others and help grow a specialist engineering team?

Then this could be the right move for you. We're looking for a Senior / Principal Protection & Control Engineer to lead the design and delivery of protection, control and substation systems, from concept through to commissioning support., *Leading P&C design packages for HV substations, from concept and detailed design through to construction and commissioning support
*Developing and reviewing protection schemes, control philosophies, logic diagrams, schematics, wiring diagrams and equipment specifications
*Overseeing protection relays, substation control systems, interlocking, communications and SCADA integration
*Applying UK transmission and distribution standards, National Grid requirements and client specifications
*Acting as technical checker or approver, and resolving complex design issues
*Leading, coaching and mentoring P&C engineers and designers
*Working closely with primary electrical, civil and structural, project management and commissioning teams
*Building client relationships through design reviews and technical meetings, and supporting bids and proposals
*Helping develop capability in SCADA, substation cyber security, modern control architectures and HVDC

Where you'll be doing it?
Our client delivers specialist engineering and design services across the UK electricity transmission and distribution sector. Part of a large international energy and engineering group, they are growing their Protection & Control team and play an active part in the UK's energy transition. You'll be working on significant UK energy infrastructure projects, with real opportunities to progress across the wider group.