Electrical engineering jobs

Electrical engineers in clean energy design, study, and commission the power systems of solar farms, wind farms, battery sites, and grids: single-line diagrams, cabling, substations, protection, and controls. Most of the jobs are in North America, and the regular hirers are engineering consultancies such as Ulteig, grid-equipment makers Siemens Energy and Hitachi Energy, and plant owners such as Invenergy.

What the jobs involve

• Design engineers draw single-line diagrams, size cables, and calculate fault levels for solar, storage, and substation projects.
• Power systems and protection engineers run short-circuit and dynamic studies, set relays, and prove a plant meets the grid code.
• Commissioning engineers test and energise substations, inverters, and HVDC converter stations.
• Operations engineers keep running plants' inverters, SCADA, and substations available.
• Power electronics engineers design converters at Enphase and Dynapower, and power supplies for fusion experiments at Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Thea Energy.

Who is hiring

Consultancies: Ulteig across the US, Natural Power in Britain and Ireland, Cundall in building services, Tractebel and Arup on the Continent. Equipment makers: Siemens Energy, which recruits HVDC commissioning engineers in Poland, Spain, and Portugal, and Hitachi Energy, with HVDC designers in Chennai. Owners and utilities: Invenergy in Chicago, Enel, ScottishPower, Southern California Edison, and TenneT in Arnhem.

Skills and qualifications

The baseline is an electrical engineering degree, ABET-accredited for many US employers. Senior US posts ask for a Professional Engineer (PE) licence, junior grades for an Engineer-in-Training (EIT) on the way to one. Canadian employers want the P.Eng, British ones Chartered Engineer status through the IET.

AutoCAD is the most requested tool. Studies roles add ETAP, PSCAD, PSS/E, or PowerFactory; panel design adds EPLAN. US adverts cite the NEC, NFPA 70E, and, at utilities, NERC standards; British grid roles cite G99.

Graduates start as interns at Dynapower or Ormat, as Fuse Energy's graduate engineer in London, in Natural Power's assistant role leading to Chartered status, or in associate grades at utilities such as AES.

What is changing

The IEA's World Energy Employment 2025 (December 2025) found shortages most acute in applied technical roles, engineers among them. In December 2025 the European Commission estimated that EU electricity grids need €1.2 trillion of investment by 2040, €730 billion of it in distribution networks: work for design, protection, and commissioning engineers.