Transmission Specialist

Orsted Asia Pacific; Setauket (NY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Orsted Asia Pacific in Setauket, NY is seeking an experienced electrical maintenance technician to support offshore wind farm operations. You will be responsible for commissioning, maintaining, and troubleshooting high-voltage equipment while ensuring compliance with Ørsted Electrical Safety Rules.

The ideal candidate has a minimum of five years of relevant experience and is qualified to operate under safety rules. This role involves both onshore and offshore work, including a shift pattern that may require extended time offshore.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of electrical maintenance experience at a substation.
• Qualified to operate under the company's HV Safety Rules.
• Able to perform switching operations on high-voltage transmission assets.

Responsibilities

• Commission, maintain, and troubleshoot high-voltage equipment.
• Provide safety guidance for teams in accordance with Ørsted Electrical Safety Rules.
• Lead and coordinate contractors on transmission assets in substations.

Skills

Electrical maintenance experience

High-voltage safety operations

SCADA systems

Troubleshooting skills

Leadership in safety procedures

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.