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.