Senior SCADA Engineer

SONI - System Operator for Northern Ireland; Dublin; Presencial; EUR 70 000 - 100 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

EirGrid Group, operating Ireland’s electricity grid, is seeking a SCADA Operations professional to help maintain EMS models, databases and related networks. The role focuses on BAU activities, modelling, validation and testing of transmission equipment within the EMS.

You will work within an IT-intensive team supporting core systems 24/7 across Dublin and Belfast, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure reliability and resilience of the grid.

Qualificações

• Degree in IT or engineering with minimum 6+ years of direct relevant experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Self-starting and able to work with minimal supervision.
• Excellent organisation and time management skills.
• Ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Effective written and verbal communication to business and technical audiences.
• Experience using MS Office tools, including Excel, MS Project and Visio.

Responsabilidades

• Contribute subject matter expertise to strategic delivery programmes.
• Act as point of escalation for major incidents.
• Develop runbooks and operating procedures for embedding new technologies and ways of working.
• Support BAU delivery for modelling, deployment and testing of new plant in the EMS with SCADA Operations.
• Support release management and testing of EMS databases and Grid Controller displays with National Control Centre teams.
• Support INTegregrated Single Electricity Market requirements for EMS including feeds and network models.
• Assist decision support tools for National Control Centre.
• Engage with stakeholders (internal and external) and vendors to ensure smooth operations.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to improve information sharing and engineering standards.
• Participate in Disaster Recovery drills and Business Continuity activities.
• Participate in on-call rosters as knowledge of EirGrid IT systems grows.

Formação académica

Relevant IT or engineering degree

Ferramentas

Excel

MS Project

Visio

Descrição da oferta de emprego

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.

The Team

We’re an IT intensive business, and we operate a state-of-the-art, specialised business-critical systems, 24/7. Central to this is EirGrid Group’s Market Management System (MMS) which supports the Group’s core wholesale electricity market operational function and is supporting the transition to renewable energy. The IT Operations team operates across all two operational sites in Dublin and Belfast and is responsible for the development and support of EirGrid Group’s Core Energy Management System, Market Management System and other related applications. The function is supplemented by a suite of additional real-time supporting systems from wind forecast security assessment tools to complex scheduling applications and real-time unit dispatch.

The Opportunity

In this position you will be part of a SCADA Operations team which supports the maintenance, accuracy and resiliency of the EMS and its underlying databases and network models. You will provide support to subject matter experts, in delivering business-as-usual activity in the modelling, validation and testing of new and upgraded transmission equipment in the EMS.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute subject matter expertise to strategic delivery programmes


• Act as point of escalation for major incidents


• Develop runbooks and operating procedures for embedding of new technologies and ways of working


• Support the BAU delivery of a rolling programme of work for the modelling, deployment and testing/ pre-commissioning of new plant in the EMS working closely within the SCADA Operations team.


• Support the SCADA Operations team with release management and testing of EMS databases and Grid Controller displays in the National Control Centre in Ireland, in collaboration with the team in Belfast.


• Support the broader Integregrated Single Electricity Market requirements for EMS including seamless provision of feeds and the provision of network models.


• Support decision support tools for National Control Centre.


• Support effective stakeholder management of both internal and external stakeholders (technical and non-technical) including key external vendors and internal service providers.


• Liaise on a cross-functional basis to support continuous improvement in information sharing, signal list quality and engineering standards.


• Participate in Disaster Recovery drills and contribute to EirGrid Group’s Business Continuity Management process.


• Participating in oncall team when requisite knowledge acquired of EirGrid’s IT Systems.

About You

• Relevant IT or engineering degree with a minimum of 6+ year direct relevant experience.


• Experience of working in a secure IT environment and working on critical infrastructure.


• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.


• Self-starter with the ability to operate with minimal supervision.


• Excellent organisation and time management skills.


• Ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders.


• Effective communicator, both in verbal and written communications to business and technical audiences.


• Experience working with MS Office tools (including Excel skills, MS Project and Visio or equivalent).

Closing date for applications

13/11/2026

We're dedicated to diversity and inclusion at Eirgrid. We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and the importance of a supportive culture for all our people to achieve their potential. Our diversity and inclusion networks have been designed to create an inclusive culture that enables our people to feel a sense of belonging at work.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process