Job Description
Job Title: Lead Commissioning Engineer – Electrical
- Location: Inverness, Scotland
- Day Rate: 70 – 80 per hour, Outside IR35
- Start Date: ASAP – September 2025
- Duration: 6 months (likely extension)
- Lead commissioning activities for high-voltage substation systems, ensuring safe, efficient, and timely delivery.
- Commission complex protection and control schemes, including:
- Feeders, Transformers, Isolators, Fault Throwers
- CTs, VTs, Differential Relays, Distance Relays
- Overcurrent Relays, Earth Fault Relays
- Inter-Tripping Schemes and Delayed Auto-Reclose systems
- Plan, manage, and execute commissioning schedules, ensuring all documentation, reporting, and handover activities are completed to the highest standards.
- Provide technical leadership and support to the commissioning team and site engineers.
- Conduct and supervise functional testing, integration testing, and FAT/SAT activities.
- Ensure all activities comply with relevant standards, including SSEN/TP141/SP authorisation requirements and IEC standards.
Requirements
- Degree or equivalent qualification in Electrical Engineering (Chartered status preferred).
- Proven experience (5+ years) as a Commissioning Engineer, ideally in a lead role on large-scale UK or EU substation projects.
- Hands-on experience with HV protection and control systems and commissioning of 132kV, 275kV, and 400kV assets.
- Relevant site safety qualifications, including CCNSG / Safety Passport, First Aid, Manual Handling, IOSH, and CSCS.
This is a great opportunity to work on a high-profile renewable energy project in Scotland for a major EPC Contractor that has a large pipeline of projects. For more information or to apply, please apply or contact Maddie Jacob on (phone number removed) / (url removed)
