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This position reports to:

Engineering Section Manager

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We are looking for a skilled Electrical Engineer to join ABB's Automation Energy Industries UK Electrical team, playing a key role in delivering the installation, commissioning, maintenance, and project engineering support of Medium Voltage (MV) and Low Voltage (LV) switchgear, protection relays, and Variable Speed Drive (VSD) systems.

Working across a diverse portfolio of projects, you'll support critical power generation, distribution, and motor drive applications within the oil & gas, marine, and renewable energy sectors. This is an opportunity to apply your technical expertise in challenging environments, contribute to complex engineering solutions, and help deliver reliable, high-performance electrical systems for customers across a range of industries.

Our Team Dynamics

Our teams support each other, collaborate, and never stop learning. Everyone brings something unique, and together we push ideas forward to solve real problems. Being part of our team means your work matters - because the progress we make here creates real impact out there.

What’s in it for you?

We want you to bring your full self to work—your ideas, your energy, your ambition. You’ll have the tools and freedom to grow your skills, shape your path, and take on challenges that matter. Here, your work creates impact you can see and feel, every day.

Your Role and Responsibilities

In this role, you’ll help run what runs the world, by taking on meaningful work that drives real impact.

• Install, commission, maintain, troubleshoot, upgrade and retrofit MV/LV switchgear, protection relay and Variable Speed Drive (VSD) systems.

• Provide technical support and engineering expertise both remotely and on customer sites across the full service lifecycle.

• Develop protection relay settings and coordination studies, supporting safe and reliable power system operation.

• Contribute to power system studies including short-circuit, load flow, arc flash, harmonic and EMC assessments.

• Diagnose and resolve faults on ABB VSD systems, including ACS1000, ACS5000, ACS6000, ACS800 and ACS880 drives.

• Prepare technical documentation, engineering drawings, testing procedures, work packs and method statements.

• Collaborate with customers and internal teams to define project scope, support bids and identify service growth opportunities.

• Ensure compliance with ABB quality standards, IEC requirements and applicable international regulations, while delivering technical training and knowledge transfer.

Work model: home-based from anywhere in the UK {#LI-remote} or hybrid {#LI-hybrid} from our Aberdeen, St Neots or Daresbury locations

Qualifications for the Role

• Degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent experience) and proven experience working with MV/LV electrical distribution systems (LV, 11kV and 33kV).

• Proven experience commissioning, testing, maintaining and supporting MV/LV switchgear, protection relays and/or Variable Speed Drives (VSDs).

• Strong knowledge of protection relay configuration, power system studies and electrical fault analysis.

• Sound understanding of electrical power systems, IEC standards and electrical safety regulations.

• Strong troubleshooting, analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently and drive continuous improvement.

• Experience with ABB products and software, including PCM600, Omicron Test Universe, MNS/MNavigate and Asset Vision/Field Information Manager – desirable, not required

• Knowledge of AVR and excitation systems, industrial cybersecurity, and MV/LV switching operations – desirable, not required

• Experience delivering projects within energy, industrial, marine or offshore environments, supported by relevant professional certifications – desirable, not required

Benefits

ABB offers a full range of benefits to help you thrive at work and beyond.

• Competitive salary

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Competitive contributory pension scheme

• Life assurance

• Flexible benefits scheme (Includes options to buy/sell holidays, health checks, dental, eye care, gym memberships, cycle to work, gadget discounts and more)

• Internal mobility opportunities, mentorships & access to projects globally

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Generous employee referral scheme

• Private medical cover

• Generous bonus scheme

• Company car or cash for car allowance

For the 6th consecutive year ABB UK has been recognised as a Top Employer in UK. Being certified as a Top Employer showcases an organisation’s dedication to a better world of work and exhibits this through excellent HR policies and people practices.

More about us

The Energy Industries Division serves a wide range of industrial sectors, including hydrocarbons, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, power generation and water. With its integrated solutions that automate, digitalize and electrify operations, the Division is committed to supporting traditional industries in their efforts to decarbonize. The Division also supports the development, integration and scaling up of new and renewable energy models. The Division’s goal is to help customers adapt and succeed in the rapidly changing global energy transition. Harnessing data, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), the Division brings over 50 years of domain expertise delivering solutions designed to improve energy, process and production efficiency, as well as reduce risk, operational cost and capital cost, while minimizing waste for customers, from project start-up and throughout the entire plant lifecycle.

Join us. Be part of the team where progress happens, industries transform, and your work shapes the world. Run What Runs the World.

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