Lead Engineer - Electrical and Control Systems

A Snapshot of Your Day

As a Lead Engineer within Siemens Energy's Modifications & Upgrades organization, you will play a key role in delivering modernization and upgrading projects for our global fleet of gas and steam turbines.

You will be responsible for the technical coordination of the electrical and control system scope throughout the project lifecycle, from sales support and engineering to commissioning and customer handover. Working closely with project managers, customers, suppliers, commissioning teams, and engineering specialists, you will ensure that the technical solution is clearly defined, coordinated, and successfully executed.

The role combines technical leadership, project execution, problem-solving, and customer interaction in an international environment. You will join a highly skilled and supportive team working with complex technical challenges, modern control systems, digitalization, and lifetime extension solutions for our installed fleet.

How You'll Make an Impact

Lead and coordinate the electrical and control system scope in modernization and upgrading projects.

Develop a clear technical execution plan, define deliverables and interfaces, and drive activities from planning through commissioning.

Act as a key technical interface towards customers, project management, suppliers, commissioning teams, and internal engineering functions.

Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities and ensure alignment between technical disciplines and project requirements.

Identify and manage technical risks, changed conditions, and complex engineering challenges throughout project execution.

Lead technical discussions and contribute to solutions that improve plant performance, reliability, availability, and sustainability.

Support modernization initiatives such as control system upgrades, system migrations, obsolescence management, digital solutions, and performance improvements.

Enable, motivate, and support project team members to achieve common goals and deliver successful project outcomes.

Contribute technical input to quotations and support the early definition of project scope, assumptions, and risks.

What You Bring

A university degree in Electrical Engineering, Automation Engineering, Control Systems Engineering, or equivalent relevant work experience.

Several years of experience in control system engineering, electrical engineering, commissioning, technical project leadership, or modernization projects.

Experience with industrial control systems such as Siemens Energy SPPA-T3000, PCS 7, PCS neo, DCS, PLC, or equivalent automation platforms is highly meritorious.

Experience from power generation, gas turbines, steam turbines, process industries, or other complex industrial environments is advantageous.

Experience from modernization, upgrade, migration, retrofit, or obsolescence management projects is considered a strong merit.

The ability to structure and drive technical work while managing several stakeholders and priorities.

Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the confidence to represent the technical scope in customer and project meetings.

A solution-oriented, responsible, flexible, and organized approach, combined with a strong desire to learn and develop.

A collaborative leadership style and an interest in enabling and supporting colleagues across functions and cultures.

Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

About the Team

You will be part of Siemens Energy's Modifications & Upgrades organization, which delivers modernization, upgrade, and lifetime extension solutions for the installed fleet of gas and steam turbines.

Our work is performed in close collaboration with customers and colleagues across engineering, project management, sales, procurement, manufacturing, field service, and commissioning. We value technical curiosity, openness, teamwork, and continuous improvement, and we support each other in finding robust solutions to complex challenges.

Our Gas Services division provides service, modernization, digitalization, and decarbonization solutions for gas turbines, steam turbines, and generators.

What We Offer

A role with significant technical responsibility and the opportunity to influence projects from early definition to final delivery.

Work with advanced technology and challenging international projects in a collaborative environment.

Opportunities for professional development, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing within a skilled engineering community.

Our Gas Services division offers Low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization. Zero or low emission power generation and all gas turbines under one roof, steam turbines and generators. Decarbonization opportunities through service offerings, modernization, and digitalization of the fleet.

We can offer you employment benefits such as: reduction of working hours, advance vacation, health care allowance and an eventual possibility to a flexible working place.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

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.

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