Job Opportunities in Ireland

We are the people behind Ireland’s electricity grid. We operate the power system with world leading levels of variable asynchronous renewable generation, ensuring that everyone has power when they need it. But that’s not all, we are now transforming the power system for future generations.

And that’s just the beginning of our story. We have a critical purpose. That purpose is to transform the power system to enable our society to reduce our carbon emissions and meet our climate change and net zero ambitions.

Be part of the transformation!

The Opportunity

We now seeking a Senior Engineer to join our System Support and Analysis team.
The role of Senior Engineer will support the System Support & Analysis function in ensuring that it fulfils its objective to bridge the gap between development and enduring operations whilst considering commercial impacts.
The role holder will deliver on a range of technical and commercial processes designed to achieve regulated targets, meet stakeholder needs in line with company requirements including; multi-disciplined analysis of technical and economic problems, propose solutions, processes and methodologies, prepare presentations and reports for internal and external stakeholder engagement, support the registration, commissioning and testing of new participants to monitoring their ongoing performance, managing their technical data and market outcomes all the way through to decommissioning.

The Team
The Operations Office is central to the delivery of our primary role – the operation, development and enhancement of the power system and the wholesale electricity market. The Office is also responsible for the sustainable implementation of transmission system and market development to meet the future needs of all users of electricity.

The System Support & Analysis function manages a wide range of technical and commercial management functions. This includes the imperfections budget setting and reporting, annual tariff calculations, commissioning, testing and registration of market units, running DS3 system service auctions, technical performance management of service providers, meter/market data checking as per relevant codes and renewables reporting and analysis. The team also provides support to System Operations and Markets as required and are a source of expertise for future development work across the business, ranging from supporting new systems to major projects.
The function deals with ad hoc queries that do not naturally sit in other functions but require technical/commercial analysis to effectively answer.

About you
Successful candidates will have the following:

• Engineering degree or equivalent, typically with a minimum of 4 years post qualification experience in the electricity industry, especially system operations or markets.
• Strong knowledge of electrical power systems and awareness of energy targets and ambitions for decarbonisation of the energy sector.
• Knowledge of wholesale power markets and market arrangements in the SEM.
• Ability to deliver medium/large projects.
• Excellent organisational skills and strong track record of delivery
• Experience in a multidisciplinary team and excellent qualitative and quantitative analytical abilities, coupled with the ability to make reasoned judgements based on available information in a changing and dynamic environment.
• Ability to conceive and introduce innovative ideas.
• Ability to translate policy and concepts into rules, codes and standards and vice versa.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a proven ability to work effectively as part of a team, capable of delivering shared goals with internal and external stakeholders through open dialogue, while also being able to define and guide own work under minimal supervision.
• Good oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Passionate, engaging with a drive and enthusiasm to deliver on the company vision and strategy.

Closing date for applications:
20th September 2024

If you believe you have the skills and experience relevant for this position, please upload your CV and a cover letter (in one document).