Protection & Control Team Lead

Location: United Kingdom – Hybrid working to the nearest office

Salary: up to £90,000 + benefits (depending on previous experience)

Position: Permanent

Turner Lovell is recruiting for a Protection & Control Team Lead to join a growing engineering design consultancy delivering HV infrastructure and grid connection projects across the UK.

This is a senior, hands-on role combining technical leadership with team management. You will lead and support a team of around 10 Protection Engineers while delivering protection design across LV-HV substation projects, working closely with DNOs and network operators.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and coordination of Protection & Control systems up to 400kV.
• Produce protection schemes including AC/DC schematics, transformer and feeder protection, interlocking and logic diagrams.
• Calculate relay settings and carry out protection coordination and fault studies.
• Configure relay logic files and programme protection relays (ALSTOM, Schneider, Siemens SIPROTEC/DIGSI etc.).
• Act as technical authority during FAT, commissioning and construction phases.
• Mentor and support a team of Protection Engineers.
• Allocate team resources and manage team workload effectively across projects.
• Review design outputs to ensure compliance and quality standards.

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in delivering Protection and Control systems within the HV (11kV-400kV) sector.
• Strong knowledge of protection principles, relay coordination and fault analysis.
• Proven hands-on experience producing protection schemes and programming relays.
• Experience working with DNOs and understanding their technical standards.
• Chartered Engineer status or working toward chartership is preferred.
• Supportive leadership style, working as part of the team and providing guidance without micromanaging.

This role would suit a technically strong Senior or Principal Protection Engineer who is capable of leading a team, supporting engineers day-to-day, and remaining hands-on with complex protection design work.

If this sounds like your next step, please apply. Alternatively, contact Anusha Gopalan at 02046027660 or anusha.gopalan@turnerlovell.com for more information.