Lead Control & Protection System Appication Engineer
GE Vernova • Stafford, United Kingdom • Posted June 13, 2026
About the Role
**Job Description Summary**
About the role
Ready to bring your skills into a role where your thinking, problem-solving and technical curiosity can help power the future?
Our Lead Control & Protection Engineer role offers someone with transferable strengths, fresh perspectives and the drive to learn the opportunity to grow and make an impact on the energy transition.
This role would suit an engineer with strong systems thinking, modelling, analysis, and technical leadership skills who wants to apply their expertise in a new domain. You may come from adjacent industries such as power systems, electrical engineering, automation, simulation, controls, protection, rail, aerospace, oil and gas, utilities, or other complex engineering environments where safety, reliability, and technical rigour are essential.
**Job Description**
**What you will do:**
• Lead and contribute to the design, modelling, verification, and validation of control and protection funct...
About the role
Ready to bring your skills into a role where your thinking, problem-solving and technical curiosity can help power the future?
Our Lead Control & Protection Engineer role offers someone with transferable strengths, fresh perspectives and the drive to learn the opportunity to grow and make an impact on the energy transition.
This role would suit an engineer with strong systems thinking, modelling, analysis, and technical leadership skills who wants to apply their expertise in a new domain. You may come from adjacent industries such as power systems, electrical engineering, automation, simulation, controls, protection, rail, aerospace, oil and gas, utilities, or other complex engineering environments where safety, reliability, and technical rigour are essential.
**Job Description**
**What you will do:**
• Lead and contribute to the design, modelling, verification, and validation of control and protection funct...