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Senior Power Systems Consultant

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in electrical engineering with a specialization in Power and Energy Systems
  • 5+ years of relevant experience in the electric power industry
  • Knowledge of transmission system planning or operations with experience analyzing power flow, dynamic stability, and electromagnetic transients using PSS®E, TSAT, or PSLF
  • Great written and spoken communication skills in English

Responsibilities

  • Apply power system planning methodologies to model and analyze transmission system steady-state, dynamic, and transient performance
  • Perform generation interconnection and integration studies for conventional and inverter-based resources
  • Develop, tune, and validate power system models to meet study objectives and regulatory or interconnection requirements
  • Prepare comprehensive technical reports documenting study assumptions, methodologies, results, conclusions, and recommendations

Key facts

  • Remote from: United States
  • Freelance
  • Senior (5-10 years)
  • Systems Engineer
  • English

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Problem Solving

About the company

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Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. From more resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, and smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner and more comfortable transportation as well as advanced healthcare, the company creates technology with purpose adding real value for customers. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to transform their industries and markets, helping them to transform the everyday for billions of people. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a globally leading medical technology provider shaping the future of healthcare. In fiscal 2023, which ended on September 30, 2023, the Siemens Group generated revenue of €77.8 billion and net income of €8.5 billion. As of September 30, 2023, the company employed around 320,000 people worldwide.

Company details

Company typeXLarge
IndustryIndustrial Machinery Manufacturing
Company size10001

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Job description

Who are we?

Here at Siemens Grid Software, our mission is to accelerate and secure the energy transition in a sustainable and profitable way. And for that we need you! We are paving the way for autonomous grid management empowering grid operators to accelerate their digital transformation easier, faster, and at scale.

By leaving behind traditional ways of tackling the net zero challenge and embracing the powerful capabilities of software and digital technology, we turn the complexity of grids into competitive advantage. No matter where power comes from or where it goes, we make sure it makes its way at every step.

 Find out how Siemens Grid Software is decoding the future of energy.

Join our team, get inspired, and help us re-imagine the world! Transform the everyday with us!

We are looking for a Senior Power Systems Consultant to join Grid Software’s Power Technologies International (PTI) team. This role is responsible for performing advanced power system planning and integration studies for renewable and inverter-based resources, including large-scale simulation and analysis of electrical transmission networks. The position involves developing and executing steady-state, dynamic, and electromagnetic transient studies to support grid interconnection, compliance, and operational reliability for clients such as generation developers, independent system operators, and transmission owners. operators, and transmission providers to develop solutions for safe and reliable power system operations.

This is a remote position based in the Contiguous U.S.

You’ll make an impact as you:

  • Apply power system planning methodologies to model and analyze transmission system steady-state, dynamic, and transient performance.
  • Perform generation interconnection and integration studies for conventional and inverter-based resources, ensuring compliance with utility, regional transmission organization, and grid code requirements.
  • Develop, tune, and validate power system models (including generator, inverter, and control models) to meet study objectives and regulatory or interconnection requirements.
  • Prepare comprehensive technical reports documenting study assumptions, methodologies, results, conclusions, and recommendations.
  • Collaborate within small project teams to deliver high-quality technical outputs while meeting project scope, schedule, budget, and quality targets.
  • Develop and implement automation scripts to improve the efficiency, consistency, and accuracy of simulations and post-processing.
  • Support proposal development by contributing to technical approaches, project plans, budgets, schedules, and resource estimates.
  • Provide on-site technical consulting support and deliver specialized training to clients as required.

You’ll win us over by having the following qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in electrical engineering with a specialization in Power and Energy Systems
  • 5+ years of relevant experience in the electric power industry as outlined below. Advanced degree MAY be substituted for professional experience if academic work included required studies and tools listed below.
  • Candidate must have knowledge of transmission system planning or operations with experience analyzing power flow, dynamic stability, and electromagnetic transients using PSS®E, TSAT, or PSLF.
  • Great written and spoken communication skills in English are required.
  • Ability to travel 10% domestically.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Prior experience in Power System Consulting.
  • Generation interconnection or operations experience in MISO, SPP, ERCOT, NYISO, ISO-NE, PJM
  • Industry experience performing power system transient analysis using PSCAD/EMTDC or EMTP-RV

About Siemens:

We are a global technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. From more resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, and smarter buildings and grids, to sustainable transportation as well as advanced healthcare, we create technology with purpose adding real value for customers.

Our Commitment to Equity and Inclusion in our Diverse Global Workforce:

We value your unique identity and perspective. We are fully committed to providing equitable opportunities and building a workplace that reflects the diversity of society, while ensuring that we attract the best talent based on qualifications, skills, and experiences. We welcome you to bring your authentic self and transform the everyday with us.

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