Join us in this role where you’ll act as a Control Engineer being at the heart of our HV operations, monitoring systems in real time, minimizing the risk of danger, releasing plant and equipment for work, managing safety, security of supply, ensuring compliance and controlling fault situations as they arise, up to and including 400kV. You will work closely with our excellent technical departments within Orsted: - IT, SCADA, Asset integrity Management, Protection, HSE, Compliance & Reliability and Wind farm/OFTO customers.

Welcome to Generation Surveillance and Control
You’ll be part of The Power Control Team where you, together with your colleagues, will play a key role in monitoring, controlling, and operating our HV electrical networks to consistently deliver renewable energy to the UK’s electrical distribution/transmission infrastructure. Within our department we ensure the energy generated from our wind farms can make its way to millions of UK homes and businesses while we meticulously adhere to Orsted Electrical Safety Rules and Grid code compliance.

As a team, we work closely with the regional HV execution teams and regularly encourage cross departmental working to support development through mentoring and getting ‘first-hand’ working knowledge.

You’ll play an important role in:

• providing HV Control Engineer services to all Orsted UK HV assets and authorised personnel

• acting as point of contact for our Electricity System Operators (ESO), Transmission System Operators (TSO) and Offshore Transmission Owner (OFTO) stakeholders to ensure Orsted HV networks are operated

• implementing Generator and Transmission instructions from TSO’s for MW, Frequency, Voltage/ MVAr setpoints and other site-specific requirements

• conducting remote switching operations on plant and equipment up to and including 400kV as per National Energy System Operator or Orsted wind farm requirements

• creating, checking and approving HV switching schedules, HV safety documentation and work instructions/procedures/standard operating practices for a variety of work activities on the HV network

• providing mentoring and Control Engineer training to aspiring team members in association with the Orsted ‘Road to Authorisation’ framework.

To succeed in the role, you:

• attained a qualification in Electrical Engineering or similar  *Note – Qualifications that offer transferrable skills shall be considered but an Electrical bias would be preferred (HNC/Degree).

• have previously been authorised in a HV Control Engineer / HV Specialist role or similar role offering transferrable skills

• have experience with power generation, transmission, or renewable energy

• have experience of SCADA control systems to operate the HV network

• have an initiative-taking, result-oriented, and systematic approach to your work tasks with safety being at the forefront

• are equipped with excellent communication skills with English language.

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.

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 accommodation@orsted.com.

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. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.