Expert Substation Control and Protection Engineer (f/m/d)

A Snapshot of Your Day

Join our Grid Automation team and lead the design, planning, and engineering of protection and control systems for High Voltage Substations worldwide. You’ll develop technical solutions, review customer specifications, and ensure compliance with engineering standards. Every day, you collaborate with Project Management, domain experts, and suppliers to deliver outstanding secondary control systems. Your decisions drive successful project execution and support innovation in energy infrastructure. Step into a role where your expertise shapes the future of global energy and supports the energy transition.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Define control and protection concepts for High Voltage Substation offers and projects.
• Create work packages for detailed design, configuration, parameterization, and testing.
• Lead solution development and coordinate setup activities.
• Collaborate with Substation Automation and Cybersecurity Engineering to deliver complete solutions.
• Secure quality assurance, obtain technical approvals, and conduct training and presentations for customers and partners.

What You Bring

• University degree in electrical engineering, automation, or a comparable field.
• At least 3 years of professional experience with protection systems for HV substations.
• Strong knowledge of protection devices from SIEMENS, Hitachi Energy, SEL, and GE.
• Proficiency with configuration tools for bay-level protection and control devices.
• Familiarity with protection philosophies, test equipment, and communication protocols such as IEC101, IEC104, and IEC61850.
• Advanced English communication skills; German is an advantage.

About the Team

Our Grid Technologies division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. We meet the growing energy demand across 90+ countries while ensuring our climate is protected. With ~100,000 dedicated employees, we not only generate electricity for over 16% of the global community, but we’re also using our technology to help protect people and the environment.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo 

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• The opportunity to engage in an exciting environment on meaningful projects
• Opportunities for career growth within a supportive workplace culture
• International environment, along with a pension fund
• Enjoy flexible working hours and the option to work from home
• Access to a canteen or meal allowances
• And more!

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