Principal Electrical Power / Systems Engineer

Principal Electrical Power / Systems Engineer

Vacancy Title: Principal Electrical Power / Systems Engineer

Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum, Benefits: hybrid - 2 days in office / training

Contract Type: Permanent Location: Dorset Industry: Mechanical & Electrical Engineering

Overview

This global business is looking for a strong all rounder who is technical and willing to develop skills across system integration, condition monitoring and problem solving. Ideally experience includes Transformer, circuits, generators and power industry environments such as substations and power stations.

Essential Job Functions

• Creation of condition monitoring system proposals for power industry clients
• Understanding the installed environment of condition monitoring systems for the power industry
• Awareness and adherence to safety regulations at the customer location
• Authorising of technical proposals
• Working with customers to determine requirements
• Distributed condition monitoring system design
• Working with the team on design architecture to ensure the system design is fit for purpose
• Working with customers to ensure safety compliance and customer documentation
• Contribution to O&M documents for project completion
• Taking ownership of complete document packages
• Technical support for installation and commissioning teams
• Take the lead on support activities for projects
• Understanding of deployed equipment and ability to configure and troubleshoot
• Interpretation of system data
• Competitor analysis and keeping up to date with competitive solutions
• Perform gap analysis to determine system improvement requirements
• Training activities and ensuring appropriate training is given to colleagues, field staff and others across Doble and customers, ensuring a high standard of content, delivery and educational value
• Work with colleagues to ensure consistency of training material

Education

• Degree in an engineering discipline, ideally electrical engineering, or similar. Demonstrable experience in appropriate areas will add weight to qualifications
• 10-15 years of experience in electrical utility engineering or operations, including experience with substation equipment or systems will be considered in lieu of a degree

Required Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of power industry experience
• Demonstrable site safety experience
• Data interpretation skills to support condition monitoring decisions (this can be taught)
• Proficient use of document authoring tools: Microsoft Office and associated applications
• Demonstration of strong system integration skills
• Practical experience in troubleshooting monitoring and diagnostic equipment in the field
• Site safety certification history

Preferred Experience

• Experience in high voltage monitoring system design, application and implementation
• Experience in interacting with field staff, management and executives
• Site safety training
• Factory acceptance testing
• Condition monitoring system commissioning
• Working in teams distributed across locations and time zones

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