Senior/Principal Consultant EMT Lead

 

Location - Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow

Ref -SPCEMTL

Salary - Competitive Depending on Experience

Ventus is working with a renewable energy technical consultancy to recruit a Senior/Principal Consultant EMT Lead for their Connections team. The successful candidate will have at least 5 years’ experience in electromagnetic transient studies to lead and work on a range of onshore and offshore projects. Along with excellent leadership qualities, the successful candidate will have a proven ability to understand client requirements and provide innovative yet pragmatic and cost-effective solutions.

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead EMT studies for a range of clients.

  • Mentor and train junior colleagues in EMT analysis.

  • Work with the Connections Team Manager and Director on proposal activity and provide timely and efficient responses to enquiries and opportunities.

  • Perform consultant and Project Manager roles as required to deliver projects efficiently.

  • Ensure quality assurance of all team deliverables, including proposals and project reports.

  • Maintain client relationships and support the team to develop these relationships with their clients.

  • Develop and maintain client relationships and manage partnerships with other consultancies and industry bodies.

  • Ensure compliance with relevant standards, regulations, and other legislative and company requirements.

  • Work with all consultants in the team to ensure that lessons learnt are communicated and team skills are developed.

  • Work with the Connections Team Manager and the Resource & Operations Director to ensure that the team continually improve systems in relation to quality, health & safety, and the environment.

 

Requirements

  • Demonstrable experience of providing power system consultancy services for renewable generation developers and network operators.

  • Extensive, detailed knowledge of electromagnetic transient analysis and direct involvement and delivery of detailed EMT studies in PSCAD, EMTP-ATP, or EMTP-RV.

  • Extensive experience in performing a range of EMT studies and analysing EMT phenomena at transmission and distribution voltages, including:

    • TOV

    • Ferroresonance

    • Statistical switching

    • Transformer, reactor, and cable energisation and de-energisation

    • Fault and fault clearance

    • Zero-miss phenomena

    • Induced current switching

    • Lightning surge transients (OHLs, substations, and offshore WTGs)

    • Circuit breaker capability (fault current interruption capability, TRV, RRRV, out-of-phase synchronisation)

  • Excellent written and verbal communications with both technical and non-technical personnel.

     

Other desirable requirements

  • Post-graduate degree in electrical engineering.

    • Capability in DPL, Python, or other modelling languages.

    • Experience of performing a range of power system studies, such as dynamics or power quality

    • Working knowledge of power system protection settings and co-ordination.

    • Earthing study design utilising CDEGs

    • Detailed cable thermal rating calculations.

    • Transformer design and rating calculations.

    • System losses calculations.

    • Cost/benefit analysis.

    • Ability and willingness to travel independently within the UK and occasionally overseas to industrial sites.

 

PermanentShubhangi Anand