Power Systems Engineer

Imagine a future where you will impact performance of our operational portfolio, consisting of Wind, Solar, and BESS generating facilities.

Join us in this role where you’ll provide technical leadership to our operations and engineering team, offering expert guidance on power generation, transmission, and collection system operations as a technical subject matter expert (SME). This encompasses overseeing design retrofits, development of strategic initiatives to optimize performance of all facility high voltage (HV) assets. You’ll help ensure our regulatory standards and company requirements are rigorously adhered to as well as being the SME for assigned regulatory codes toward ISO’s, NERC and other regulatory parties.

Welcome to Operations Engineering
You’ll be part of Transmission where you, together with your colleagues will work as a member of a global team focused on regional compliance and HV operations, incorporating and adapting global best practices to regional compliance and reliability. You will have immediate impact supporting our local operations field teams, assisting in outage mitigation (unplanned) and long-term strategic planning for HV operations.

As a team, we In Operations Engineering create value through establishing good engaging relationships with various stakeholders while encouraging each other and collaborating as a team.

You’ll play an important role in:

• model validation (PSSE/PSCAD/TSAT) project management
• conducting root cause analysis of failures, propose improvements to mitigate
• clarifying operations HV scope requirements and providing feedback to EPC
• Conducting design reviews for new projects in concert with EPC team.
• Maintaining relationships with regional independent system operators, transmission planners, and others to ensure regulatory compliance adherence.

To succeed in the role, you:

• understand dynamic system modelling and modelling software
• are well versed in NERC/ISO requirements as they relate to HV engineering
• are comfortable with conducting event analysis on HV power systems through the use of symmetrical components as needed.
• are comfortable with relay/RTU settings software (GE, ABB, SEL relays and SEL RTAC)
• have excellent interpersonal communications skills as you will be working with both internal and external stakeholders as part of a dynamic team.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Join a global leader in renewable energy
Ørsted is a growing green energy major and global leader in climate action. With us you’ll play a part in driving change towards a green energy future. You’ll grow your talent in a fast-paced and high-growth industry where you have plenty of opportunities to learn and develop through challenging assignments and industry-leading experts. Here, you can perform in a friendly work environment based on trust, respect, and collaboration.

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via accomodation@orsted.com.

Please note that you’re expected to do some travelling in relation to your work, as you’ll travel to facilities and the office, 25% travel is anticipated.

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country.