Student Veterans of America Jobs

Welcome to SVA’s jobs portal, your one-stop shop for finding the most up to date source of employment opportunities. We have partnered with the National Labor Exchange to provide you this information. You may be looking for part-time employment to supplement your income while you are in school. You might be looking for an internship to add experience to your resume. And you may be completing your training ready to start a new career. This site has all of those types of jobs.

Here are a few things you should know:
  • This site is mobile friendly. You do not need a log-in or password to access information.
  • Jobs on this site are original and unduplicated and come from three sources: the Federal government, state workforce agency job banks, and corporate career websites. All jobs are vetted to ensure there are no scams, training schemes, or phishing.
  • The site is refreshed daily to remove out-of-date content.
  • The newest jobs are listed first, so use the search features to match your interests. You can look for jobs in a specific geographical location, by title or keyword, or you can use the military crosswalk. You may want to do something different from your military career, but you undoubtedly have skills from that occupation that match to a civilian job.

Job Information

Siemens Principal Design Engineer in London, United Kingdom

Job Family: Engineering

Req ID: 436007

Vacancy: Principal Design Engineer

Join our Smart Infrastructure Division as Principal Design Engineer!

Siemens Digital Grid have secured a position on the National Grid 5 Year Light Current Framework, resiliently providing robust systems with the latest Siemens technology on new National Grid substations and extending the existing infrastructure. A safer and lower carbon project delivery footprint will be adopted.

Location: This role allows you to be based anywhere in the UK, you could work remotely with occasional travel to meet up with your team in the Hebburn office. However, in the initial stage of joining the team, you would be required to be present at the Hebburn office for 2/3 days per week whilst training.

It’s incredibly important that our people enjoy working here and therefore we take great pride in having a friendly, helpful, and engaging culture. We also appreciate that development and training is important to many and that’s why we have a supportive environment that invests in our employee’s development, whether that’s Chartership, training or mentoring.

How you will make an impact:

You will successfully deliver; Transmission protection and control systems with our end-customers from various domains & disciplines. You will provide support to Protection engineering team to mentor / coach other members of the team to support their growth. Responsible for assessing delivery process and optimising to create efficient engineering process to allow deliver of projects on target and within scope. Provide innovative solutions as technical lead for protection and control on UK Transmission and Distribution network.

•Ensure that Siemens solutions are compliant with the latest policies and standards.

•Provide a high level of customer service to clients and maintain the highest standards of quality.

•Sound problem solving skills, fault finding skills and analytical thinking.

•Provide technical input for Sales, Proposals and Operations departments

What skills and experience will you bring to the role:

•Application of protection systems on National Grid transmission network.

•Experience of National Grid delivery and specifications/standards are essential.

•NG CDAE

•TP141 Settings beneficial but not essential.

•Good understanding of design process covering Detailed design (Circuit diagrams / Interface diagrams / cubicle design / settings / testing FAT).

•Experience with industry-standard software tools for design, simulation and test, beneficial to have SIPROTEC / DIGSI knowledge.

•Experience dealing with NG as direct customer and/or EPC customers providing protection solutions for brown field extensions or green field build.

•Good communication skills to allow efficient co-ordination between the team / function groups and the customer.

•A minimum qualification of HNC/HND (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering plus extensive experience in the Electricity Transmission and Distribution Industry.

We’ve got quite a lot to offer. How about you?

•Performance-Based Bonus: Enjoy an annual bonus linked to the company's performance

•Flexible Working Hours: Achieve a healthy work-life balance with our flexible working arrangements, enabling you to tailor your schedule to your needs.

•Pension Plan: Secure your future with our generous pension scheme, with employer contributions up to 10%.

•Time Off: Recharge and rejuvenate with 26 days of annual leave (plus bank holidays), and the option to buy or sell an additional 5 days.

We value your unique identity and perspective and are fully committed to providing equal opportunities and building a workplace that reflects the diversity of society. Come bring your authentic self and create a better tomorrow with us! So that we can support you to be your best during the application and interview process, please let us know if you have any specific requirements.

DirectEmployers