# Senior Substation Design Engineer

Base Location: For this role, we require successful applicants to be based from one of our Scottish locations and you'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in the office - Aberdeen, Perth, Inverness, Glasgow Salary: £59,800 - £89,800 + car /car allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family. Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time| Flexible First options available The role Join our Offshore AC Project Engineering team and take a leading technical role in the development of major electricity transmission infrastructure supporting Scotland’s transition to Net Zero. As Senior Substation Engineer, you’ll work across our Island projects, helping shape technically complex AC infrastructure connecting into HVDC systems. With projects incorporating substations from 33kV to 400kV, grid control and stabilisation technology, this is an opportunity to use your technical expertise across some of our most significant transmission investment. This is a great opportunity for an experienced substation or electrical engineer looking to broaden their influence, work on technically challenging infrastructure and help develop enginee

- **Id**: 3488294
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sse-senior-substation-engineer>
- **Role**: Energy
- **Role family**: Energy
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Inverness, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-29T15:32:22Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T02:35:59Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 10
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5196
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Gym membership
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Power Grid, Wind Energy

## Company

- **Id**: 1808654
- **Name**: SSE
- **Domain**: sse.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sse-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

## Salary

- **Min**: 59800
- **Max**: 89800
- **Currency**: GBP
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 120390

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 10

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-29T22:26:43Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 83
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.879
- **P room**: 0.945
- **Age days**: 9
- **Expected fill days**: 14
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 120390
- **Is top pay**: no

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