Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
At M Group Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.
We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.
This role will be within our Transmission & Renewables team. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity.
What will you be doing:
Are you an experienced Protection and Control engineer who wants to own the full P&C design on the projects connecting the UK's renewable energy to the grid? This a Hybrid and flexible role, with site days expected and occasional meetings at our offices in Birmingham, Nottingham or Newport.
Join our Renewable Connections Design Team as a Senior P&C Engineer. You'll lead the protection, control and secondary systems design for substations up to 400kV connecting solar and BESS schemes to the networks of SSE, UKPN, SPEN and independent DNOs. You'll take designs from concept to construction-ready, approve the work of others and support commissioning through to energisation.
- Own the full P&C design process for substations up to 400kV and generation/BESS connections, from scoping and concept through to issued-for-construction
- Specify protection relays, control and relay panels, CTs, VTs, intertripping, metering and DC systems (batteries and chargers)
- Carry out CT/VT sizing calculations and protection grading and coordination studies, and produce relay settings and configuration files
- Design interface protection (including loss of mains), intertrip and operational tripping schemes, and agree them with the DNO/IDNO
- Design to ENA Technical Specifications and Engineering Recommendations and network operator protection policies (e.g. SSEN, UKPN and SPEN), as well as British and IEC standards
- Review and approve third-party and subcontractor P&C designs, acting as the P&C design approver on your projects
- Prepare test specifications, review commissioning plans, attend commissioning panel meetings and support site teams through to energisation and as-built records
- Work closely with primary (HV plant), civils, cables and project management colleagues, and support bids with design input and pricing
- Plan P&C design resources, track delivery against programme and budget, and mentor graduate and junior engineers
What you’ll bring
- Degree in Electrical Engineering (or similar), or HNC/HND with substantial relevant experience
- At least 6 years P&C design experience, including at least 4 years on UK distribution or transmission network projects
- Strong knowledge of UK protection practice, ENA standards and DNO/IDNO protection requirements
- Hands-on experience with protection relays (e.g. Siemens, GE, SEL, Schneider, ABB), CT/VT sizing and AC/DC schematic design
- Experience of protection modelling and grading software such as ETAP, DIgSILENT PowerFactory or IPS
- Understanding of SCADA and communication protocols (IEC 61850, DNP3, Modbus)
- Sound understanding of CDM 2015, a strong safety mindset and high attention to detail
- Able to juggle multiple projects and work well in a multi-disciplinary team
- Full UK driving licence
What's in it for you
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private health care and health care cash plan for you and your family
- Discretionary Bonus
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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