Senior Electrical Engineer

Job Description Summary

Become part of a winning team and help to deliver the Green Energy transition.

Activities aimed at proving a concept to be valid or technically feasible by the application of scientific and engineering methodologies.

Work in this family typically has the objective of demonstrating through test or analyses the performance and implementation potential of a concept

Impacts approaches, projects and programs in the functional area or affected business organisation and ways of working.

Impacts quality, efficiency and effectiveness of own team.

You will have significant input into priorities.

Guided by professional practices and policies that are shaped by the role. The role has moderate autonomy, requiring high levels of operational judgment.

Job Description

The Senior Electrical Engineer is one of the technical experts responsible for ensuring HVDC converter valves are designed safely, efficiently, and reliably.

You don't just create designs—you define engineering standards, review critical technical decisions, mentor other engineers, support testing, and influence the future of HVDC technology.

This is not a typical design engineer role. It is a ‘technical authority’ position where the engineer is expected to guide projects globally, make key engineering decisions, and ensure the highest technical standards across the business

Roles & Responsibilities

• Conceptual or theoretical activities related to translating users' needs into the definition of a system, its architecture and design through an iterative process that results in an effective operational system and demands an interdisciplinary approach.
• Developing specialized knowledge in their discipline. Serves as best practice/quality resource. Has awareness of latest technical developments in own area. Contributes towards strategy and policy development, and ensure delivery within area of responsibility.
• Has in-depth knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; has working knowledge of competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market
• Uses judgment to make decisions or solve moderately complex tasks or problems in areas of operational/product management, manufacturing, technology or engineering. Takes new perspective on existing solutions. Uses technical experience and expertise for data analysis to support recommendations. Uses multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own function to arrive at decisions.
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May lead small projects with moderate risks and resource requirements. Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus. Developing persuasion skills required to influence others on topics within field.