Engineer, Electricity Operational Technology

4 weeks ago

Auckland City, New Zealand Vector NZ Full time

Engineer, Electricity Operational Technology
- Full-time
- Engagement type: Permanent - Employee
- Department: Operations and Maintenance

**About Us**
If you love working with a diverse group of people who are all about putting the customer at the centre and enabling choice, you’ve found the right company. The energy sector is transforming at a rate of knots, and we want you to join us and be part of this transformation. Vector is a proudly Aotearoa-owned company, which operates a range of innovative businesses delivering energy and communication services to more than one million homes and commercial customers across Australasia and the Pacific. These services include electricity and gas connections, solar solutions, high speed fibre, BBQ gas bottles, air and water purification and much more - all of which are transforming the energy sector in one way or another.

Because we live in a world that is changing fast, we must continue to identify and develop better solutions that will provide value, choice and service for our customers throughout New Zealand and beyond, so the environment and communities we love continue to thrive. To do this, Vector has a vision of creating a new energy future, which will help to deliver clean, reliable and affordable energy solutions for customers.

**About the role**
Auckland's electricity network continues to grow at a rapid rate to support our thriving city. Vector’s Operational Technology (OT) network grows along with it, with more devices in the field bringing in more data and using it in more innovative ways. We need you to help design, build, monitor, and maintain the Operational Technology network.

The OT Engineering team work closely with the Control Systems and the Protection and Control teams to maintain a continuous data flow from assets in the field, to the control room. We rectify communication system and field automation faults and where required coordinate field service providers and specialist third parties.

We develop the strategic direction of the OT environment for Vector Electricity. Including development of strategies, standards and business cases for the life cycle management of OT assets including substation routers, ethernet switches, cellular routers, digital radio, RTU, PLC, battery systems and a wide variety of IIoT devices. This includes research, trial and evaluating new communication and automation technologies for the OT network.

We are responsible for monitoring the performance of and threats to the operational technology systems of the Electricity business. Working closely with Vector Digital, Vector Fibre and Cyber teams to resolve issues and drive continues improvement.

We provide engineering design, integration and commissioning services for Vector projects that require integration to the OT network.

A copy of the role profile is available here.

**Who we are looking for**
- You’ll hold an engineering degree in a related field, such as Electrical/Electronic/Communications/Mechatronic
- You’ll be experienced in the configuration and maintenance of field automation and communications equipment
- Experience in telecommunication protocols such as DNP3, IEC 61850, Modbus is advantageous; as is a familiarity with RTU and SCADA configuration tools
- You’ll be confident in risk management, with the ability to make well-reasoned decisions through structured, critical thinking
- You’ll be comfortable engaging with internal and external stakeholders, with excellent verbal and written communication skills.

**What we can offer you**
We love working together to create a new energy future. If you want to be part of an organisation with a real and tangible purpose, Vector could be the place for you.
We offer:

- A fun, flexible and stimulating work environment, full of interesting work being done by smart and innovative people
- Flexibility, including the choice of working from home a couple of days a week, and flexible start and finish times so you can balance work and life
- Health and wellbeing support
- Great benefits that reflect the importance of family

Vector engages a workforce made up of people and teams with diverse skills, values, backgrounds and experiences. We respect and value people who are different from each other, including gender, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, race and religion. We are proud of what we have achieved so far:

- First corporate Living Wage Accredited employer
- First Accessibility Tick employer
- Rainbow Tick accredited
- Winner of three gongs at the 2019 Diversity Awards NZ, including the Supreme Award in 2019 and 2020.

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