Are you seeking a career where your expertise and passion for engineering make a real difference? Imagine being at the forefront of power network innovation, ensuring safety and reliability for communities across our SPN licence area. At Capital Programme, we are looking for a talented Protection and Commissioning Engineer to join us as a permanent member of our team based covering our SPN footprint in Sussex, Surrey or Kent.
Picture yourself working alongside dedicated professionals, reporting to the Lead Protection and Commissioning Engineer, and playing a pivotal role in commissioning and testing substation equipment at all voltage levels. You'll not only earn a competitive salary of £80,557, but also enjoy a car allowance, a 3% bonus.
As the Protection and Commissioning Engineer, your responsibilities will include planning and performing commissioning testing of all types of substation equipment, providing design and standards support, and witnessing manufacturers' commissioning tests to ensure quality assurance and compliance. You will ensure safety management is prioritised throughout all areas, promoting our zero harm philosophy. Your expertise will guide the programme of commissioning, plant acceptance testing, and safe energisation, delivering successful project completion for both internal and external customers. Developing and agreeing commissioning plans, you will set standards and ensure thorough testing of new schemes, while collaborating with in-house, contractor, and supplier experts to evaluate designs, reduce risk, and optimise solutions. You will be responsible for checking and applying software programmable logic and settings to protection schemes, diagnosing problems, proposing modifications, and developing permanent solutions when maloperations occur-even under tight timescales. Your influence will extend to network control, planning and authorising safe energisation, minimising customer interruptions, and ensuring all test records and relay settings are accurately maintained.
To thrive in this role, you will hold a relevant engineering degree or a Higher National HNC/HND qualification. Network operational experience as an Authorised Person (AP), particularly as a commissioning engineer, is desirable. Your technical understanding and practical engineering sense will be essential for logical problem-solving, and IT skills will support you in interacting with modern relay schemes and interpreting complex results. Your work will be largely site-based, both outdoors and indoors, often requiring flexible hours to minimise customer disruptions, with remote managerial supervision and opportunities to contribute to the development of new testing policies and procedures. As the technical authority on site, you'll make critical decisions on testing and energisation, influencing the prioritisation and planning of work to meet customer and programme demands.
If you want to work in a collaborative environment, solve challenging technical problems, and be part of a team that celebrates diversity and equal opportunity-regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status-then we want to hear from you. Ready to energise your career? Apply by 29/03/2026 and help us power the future