Assistant Grid Control Engineer

Assistant Grid Control Engineer

Our client plays a critical role to the development and safe operation of the electricity transmission grid in Northern Ireland. Due to continued growth they are seeking to add an Assistant Grid Control Engineer to their team in Belfast.

Responsible for a range of functions in real time system operations. These will include but not be limited to system operations; security of supply; management of generation and transmission performance; outage management; supporting incident analysis; and much more.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Instructing the loading of the generating plant on the N.I. and Ireland System.
• Taking the market position as starting point, develop a secure schedule that minimises the deviation from market running. Monitor changes in the market and advice being presented to develop a secure schedule that takes this into account:
• Consideration of plant margins and generation security and the actions to be taken in a shortfall.

• Consideration of system security under outage/fault conditions.
• Safe operation under planned and emergency working conditions.
• Gas schedules.
• Annual DBC budget.

• All forecasts required for market and internal systems e.g. demand, renewables, etc.
• Managing / troubleshooting network model (Outage Database, EMS and MMS).

Personal Specification:  

• Relevant degree; or relevant HNC combined with relevant experience.
• Detailed knowledge of the Northern Ireland Transmission system.
• Extensive experience of more than one of the following areas:
• Transmission Systems
• Power Stations
• Power Systems Operations
• Generation, transmission system development planning
• Power system (including generators) protection maintenance or commissioning

• Ability to work and commit to shift work (incl. night shift) for which a shift allowance will be paid.
• Operational knowledge of Energy Management System (EMS) and other real time applications required to monitor system security.

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