Full-time

Validation Engineer

Posted by First Recruitment Group • , , United Kingdom, , , United Kingdom, United-Kingdom

📍 , , United Kingdom, , , United Kingdom 🕒 February 28, 2026

About the Role

Overview

One of our top Engineering Clients is looking for a Validation Engineer (Protection & Control) to join their team in Stafford on a 6 month+ contract basis.

Role Purpose:

  • The Engineer for Grid Automation will be responsible for testing protection function i.e. distance protection, line diff and others and control modules in embedded firmware for grid solution products. This involves planning, executing, and documenting a variety of tests such as product level and system-level validation, focusing on protection schemes and algorithms in both utility and industrial settings.

The candidate must have good hands-on in testing protection & control schemes , sound knowledge on various protection and control algorithms used in utility and industrial environment, user configurations and programmable logic. Experience in using different test equipment and their associated SW, such as secondary injection kits, from different m...

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