# Principal Protection and Control Design Engineer

**Company**: AECOM
**Location**: Leeds
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Protection and Control Design Engineer to join our team in Leeds, United Kingdom. As a trusted advisor to our clients, you will contribute to developing our technical standards, innovation strategy, and digital delivery approach within the P&C engineering space.

Key responsibilities include:

- Preparing Protection & Control engineering designs for HV/EHV substations (11kV–400kV or above)

- Providing expert-level input to develop and oversee Protection Single Line Diagrams (SLDs), AC/DC Schematics, Wiring Diagrams, Terminal Plans, Cable Schedules, and Interconnection Diagrams

- Designing Protection Relay Panels, Control Panels, Annunciation Panels, Metering Panels, and RTU/SCADA interfaces

- Preparing Protection Relay Settings philosophy and coordinating with system studies where applicable

- Performing protection coordination and reviewing relay configurations

- Preparing engineering calculations, cable sizing, voltage drop calculations, and battery sizing (where applicable)

- Coordinating with Civil, Primary, Telecom, and SCADA engineering teams

- Reviewing vendor drawings and ensuring compliance with project specifications

- Undertaking client and stakeholder engagement, providing technical assurance, strategic direction, and value-engineered solutions on high-profile infrastructure programmes

- Supporting FAT, SAT, commissioning, and technical issue resolution

- Driving project execution, managing technical risks, interfaces, and quality reviews while supporting procurement, construction, and commissioning phases

- Ensuring designs comply with IEC, IEEE, National Grid, and client-specific standards

- Championing mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and technical development within the wider team, supporting capability growth in cable systems engineering

- Supporting business development activities, including proposals, bid reviews, and client presentations

We offer a range of core and personalized benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customized to fit your lifestyle. These include career development opportunities, a flexible hybrid working model, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

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## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Protection schemes for Transmission and Distribution substations
- Protection relays from manufacturers such as Siemens, GE, ABB/Hitachi Energy, Schneider Electric, or SEL
- AutoCAD
- Microsoft Office
- IEC 61850
- Substation automation systems
- SCADA
- RTU
- SAS
- Communication protocols

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