Senior Lead Engineer, Grid Readiness & Change

EirGrid Group; Dublin; Presencial; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

EirGrid is seeking a Senior Lead Engineer to head readiness and change for complex power-system projects in Ireland. You will translate strategy into operational requirements and provide authoritative engineering judgement across design, testing, cutover and go-live.

The role combines deep power-system knowledge with structured change management, testing and readiness disciplines, and you will coach engineers while building wider technical capability across the team.

Formación

• Engineering degree with at least 6 years post-qualification experience.
• Strong knowledge of electrical power systems and decarbonisation ambitions.
• Experience defining operational requirements, acceptance criteria and readiness evidence for safety-critical systems.
• Understanding of Control Centre operations and tool/data/procedures interactions.
• Experience planning and leading UAT, regression and scenario-based testing including defect triage.
• Excellent analysis and problem-solving with balanced recommendations.
• Track record of introducing automation, analytics or new ways of working.
• Ability to communicate complex technical matters to stakeholders.
• Strong organisational skills and prioritisation across multiple projects.
• Willingness to coach and develop junior engineers.
• Experience with OT and decision-support platforms like EMS/SCADA.
• Experience with power-system analysis tools (PSS/E, Python).
• Awareness of emerging technologies and operating concepts.
• Experience representing an organisation in technical forums with peers.

Responsabilidades

• Act as technical lead for complex projects translating objectives into operational requirements and delivery plans.
• Lead readiness activity across the change lifecycle from impact assessment to go-live.
• Provide technical direction during testing, capture risks and workarounds.
• Support introduction of new technologies and operating approaches for grid security and procedures.
• Apply engineering, automation and analytics to improve readiness and decision support.
• Challenge designs to ensure operational requirements, usability and maintainability.
• Contribute to project governance with options, recommendations and risk assessments.
• Coordinate across teams to achieve an integrated readiness position.
• Stay close to live practice to ground future solutions.
• Coach engineers and graduates to build technical capability.
• Promote a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Conocimientos

Power system expertise

Operational testing

Technical leadership

Problem solving

Educación

Engineering degree

Herramientas

EMS/SCADA

PSS/E

DSA Tools

Python

Descripción del empleo

EirGrid is seeking a Senior Lead Engineer to head readiness and change for complex power-system projects in Ireland. You will translate strategy into operational requirements and provide authoritative engineering judgement across design, testing, cutover and go-live.

The role combines deep power-system knowledge with structured change management, testing and readiness disciplines, and you will coach engineers while building wider technical capability across the team.