Plant Layout Lead Engineer (f/m/d) for FACTS Systems

A Snapshot of Your Day 

Join us as you kick off your day with dedicated focus time, setting your agenda to maximize productivity. You’ll prepare for key meetings with internal colleagues, gearing up for an important client discussion. As a pivotal player in designing the FACTS plant - whether it’s SynCons, STATCOMs, or Storage - you’ll coordinate across engineering, procurement, commissioning, and logistics to craft the most efficient layout solutions. Expect to engage in dynamic discussions via Microsoft Teams, collaborating with your interdisciplinary project team to enhance your layout concepts. Your afternoon will feature a face-to-face meeting with the customer, where you’ll present your innovative solutions, address technical questions, and navigate change requests. Following this, you’ll collaborate with your project team to outline the next steps in the design process, ensuring timely delivery of updates.

How You’ll Make an Impact 

• Responsible for the overall plant design of FACTS systems, considering customer specifications, country‑specific standards, and EHS requirements
• Lead and manage a global project team of engineers with responsibility for plant design, primary engineering, acoustics, and seismic topics
• Coordinate interfaces between multiple engineering disciplines involved in the 3D design process to ensure an integrated design with a strong focus on quality and on‑time delivery
• Ensure project objectives are aligned with organizational goals and customer expectations
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, including timelines, milestones, and resource allocation
• Communicate project status, risks, and issues to project management and line management

What You Bring

• University degree in engineering or a comparable education in a technical field with corresponding professional experience
• Professional experience in turnkey projects, ideally within Power Plants, HVDC, or FACTS systems 
• Project management experience with a solid grasp of methodologies and tools, and the ability to manage multiple topics simultaneously while prioritizing tasks effectively  
• Leadership skills that inspire and motivate interdisciplinary teams, along with experience in managing cross-functional teams within a matrix organization
• Excellent communication skills in both English and German, capable of conveying complex technical topics to diverse audiences
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities as well as basic knowledge of CAD tools (e.g., Inventor, NX, E3D, or similar) or a willingness to learn

About the Team

Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

Who is Siemens Energy? 

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With  ~100.000  dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.       

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: 

Our Commitment to Diversity  

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences. 

Rewards/Benefits 

• In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer-financed company pension scheme
• We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
• We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
• The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programmes and learning materials are available for this purpose
• In relation to the "compatibility of family and work", we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical

We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.