Transmission Specialist

Orsted Asia Pacific; Setauket (NY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ørsted US Offshore Operations seeks a qualified electrical professional to join the High Voltage Transmission System team. The role involves commissioning, maintaining, operating and troubleshooting high and low‑voltage equipment in substations across the North‑East region, with onshore and offshore duties and guidance per ØESR.

You will work to ensure safety, reliability, and coordination of outages, lead contractors, and support SCADA‑based operations while complying with safety standards and

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of electrical working experience in substations.
• Qualified person under HV Safety Rules (HVSR) with training provided.
• Experience performing switching operations on HV transmission assets.
• Willingness to become a qualified person under ØESR within 1 year.
• Able to work shift patterns, offshore up to 7/14 days on SOV.
• Must have medical checks and GWO safety training.

Responsibilities

• Isolate and ground HV equipment safely for planned and unplanned work.
• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on HV substation assets.
• Troubleshoot using alarms from SCADA or local control.
• Operate transmission system configurations and contingencies; understand relay schemes.
• Outage management and coordination with relevant personnel.
• Lead contractors and ensure safety procedures in substations.

Skills

Electrical safety

HV switching

Substation maintenance

Troubleshooting

SCADA experience

Education

HV electrical certification

Tools

SCADA systems

Local control system

Job description

Join us in this role where you’ll support our North-East program of offshore wind farms. You’ll be responsible for commissioning, maintaining, operating, and trouble‑shooting high and low‑voltage equipment in a safe and controlled manner, as well as providing safety guidance for all working parties in accordance with Ørsted Electrical Safety Rules (ØESR). We cultivate a collaborative, dynamic, and diverse work environment and encourage career‑long learning and development so our people can realise their full potential. The role will be based both onshore and offshore.

Welcome to US Offshore Operations

You’ll be part of the High Voltage Transmission System team where you, together with your colleagues, will service, maintain, and repair the HV equipment in electrical substations throughout the region. In this role, you’ll report to the High Voltage (HV) Transmission System Manager. As a team, we foster a safety culture and are able to reliably maintain the bulk electric transmission system.

You’ll play an important role in:

• providing safety by electrical or mechanical isolation, earthing, and switching of high‑voltage and low‑voltage equipment in substations for both planned and unplanned work
• undertaking preventive and corrective maintenance of high‑voltage substation assets in accordance with manufacturer's instructions
• performing troubleshooting activities using alarm signals on SCADA or local control system
• operating transmission system configurations and contingencies for a wind farm and being able to comprehend transmission system relay protection schemes
• outage managing and network controlling in collaboration with relevant personnel and being able to operate the transmission assets using the SCADA or local control system
• leading contractors and working parties working on transmission assets within a substation and participating in coordination of inter‑system operation, testing, and associated safety procedures.

To succeed in the role, you:

have at least five years of electrical working and maintenance experience working at substation as a qualified person operating under the company’s HV Safety Rules are experienced in performing switching operations on high‑voltage transmission assets need to become a qualified person under the ØESR with support and training provided to gain this internal accreditation in the first year of employment are able to work a shift‑pattern, sometimes spending up to 7/14 days offshore at a time on a service operation vessel (SOV) have the clear medical checks and safety training programs as required by Global Wind Organisation (GWO) standards and have a valid US driver’s license.