Senior Engineer, Energy Transition

About the team

Transgrid’s Energy Transition team develops and delivers initiatives to ensure the secure operation of the NSW power system at up to 100% instantaneous renewable supply, including delivering system security services and supporting the operability of the grid.

The Energy Transition team is heavily focussed on delivering solutions to maintain system strength in the NSW power system.

We have identified a diverse portfolio of solutions required, including synchronous condensers, over 5GW of grid-forming batteries, modifications to synchronous machines and contracts with synchronous machines to fill gaps in system strength.

Are you an electricity system and technology expert, passionate about enabling the rapid transformation of Australia’s electricity system?

Do you have a creative mindset, strong communication skills and a keen interest in new technologies?

Do you have experience in power system modelling and an understanding of the inner workings of grid-forming batteries?

If so, you could be our next Senior Engineer, though being an Engineer in not essential.

We are hiring for a Senior Engineer.

In this role, the Senior Engineer will:

• Guide the development of contracts and technical specifications for non-network proponents (including grid-forming batteries), for stable voltage waveform support services.
• Guide or undertake power system modelling (in PSSE and PSCAD) to understand the need for, or the benefit of, solutions that provide stable voltage waveform and fault current support.
• Guide technical and commercial feasibility assessments of synchronous machine modifications, synchronous condenser services and grid-forming batteries for system strength.
• Lead engagements with ‘non-network’ proponents (including existing generators and dozens of future grid-forming battery proponents) and support commercial negotiations with them.
• Guide market modelling to identify portfolios of system strength solutions and contracting decisions with synchronous machines.
• Prepare business cases and write regulatory documentation to support capital investment decisions for infrastructure and non-network services required to deliver the energy transition.