Senior Power Systems Engineer

2 weeks ago


Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand Transpower Full time
Bring your experience and passion for Power Systems Engineering to the National Grid

  • Provide engineering assurance expertise to the System Operator
  • Work with leading power system technical experts who freely share their knowledge and experiences from across the globe.

Join our team where enabling and maintaining operational excellence and working with customers and industry participates are key focus areas.
Our Power Systems Group provides multifaceted power system analysis and engineering, risk, and assurance management.

This work supports Transpower in its role as System Operator (SO) to meet its principal performance obligations and successfully operate New Zealand's electricity market and power system for today and into the future.


About the team


The Engineering Assurance & Power System Engineering teams both play a key role in delivering this service by working with industry participants to understand how their assets perform against their obligations.


Our team works closely with the Electricity Authority (EA) to evolve the Electricity Industry Participants Code (the Code), and with Asset Owners to understand their assets capability and performance against the Code, investigate system events, and commission and test new or existing assets connected to the power system.


About the opportunity
We have a Senior Power Systems Engineer position available in Wellington or Hamilton.


Working collaboratively across the SO Power Systems group, wider Operations division and industry you'll identify, understand and solve complex problems, keep operational asset information and models up to date, and provide timely, accurate engineering support and advice to help inform our operational decisions.


You'll work with generators and distributors; the EA; Specialist Engineering Consultants; and manufacturers and vendors of energy resource technologies including batteries, wind, and solar.


With so many new customer connection requests you'll lead and coordinate with Asset Owners and other Transpower SMEs the System Operator process for commissioning and testing of generation or other energy resources, e.g.

batteries connecting to the power system.

About you
Your outstanding communication and influencing skills and love of assurance work i.e. investigation, risk mitigation, testing, data modelling, monitoring, compliance, problem solving, advisory, etc will see you freely share your knowledge with other Engineers while ensuring we keep the lights on and future proof the transmission grid for generations to come

Your career to date, CV, and cover letter will demonstrate:

  • 7+ years knowledge and experience in power system operations.
  • Commissioning and testing experience with industrial equipment, preferably with generation assets.
  • Engineering project management experience with highvoltage electrical equipment, including substations (zone and GXP sites).
  • Experience with preparing/validating powerflow cases in PowerFactory for conducting power system analysis and simulations.
  • Proven ability to analyse and interpret complex problems or processes, identify and understand requirements and develop alternatives.
  • A bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics or related fields.
  • Professional registration as a Chartered Engineer (CPEng) essential.

Join us at Transpower
Aotearoa is powered by the people who work here. Every home, every marae, every electric vehicle, every hospital relies on the electricity we manage and deliver.

Next Steps

Existing eligibility to work in New Zealand is preferred.

Job Details:

  • Position Description
Senior Power Systems Engineer_PD_Aug Reference #
Posted on
01 Sep 2023- Closes on

17 Sep :55- Location(s)

Hamilton, Wellington- Expertise
Customer Solutions / Relations, Engineering, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Engineering Science, Project Management- Job level(s)
Experienced- Work type(s)
Permanent Full Time

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