Summary
EY is seeking a Senior Operations Planning Engineer for a 12-month role in Kuwait. The role develops short- and medium-term operating plans, assesses generation and transmission outages, forecasts electrical loads, and supports secure and economical dispatch. It also covers GCC interconnection studies, load-shedding schedules, network analysis, and coordination of maintenance planning. Applicants need at least 10 years of senior power-system operations planning experience, an electrical engineering degree or equivalent, fluent English, and hands-on Siemens Spectrum SCADA and EMS experience.
The posting
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Role Purpose
Develop short- and medium-term operating plans that maintain continuity of supply, system security and economical dispatch while coordinating generation availability, transmission outages and GCC interconnection requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Determine secure and economical operating modes and allocation of generation across power plants and generating units.
- Forecast short- and medium-term electrical loads and assess generation availability required to meet demand.
- Assess scheduled outages of transmission assets and generating units and identify mitigations for system impacts.
- Coordinate generation energy-availability requirements to support annual maintenance planning.
- Analyze critical network loading and recommend short- and medium-term operational solutions.
- Review and update planned and automatic load-shedding schedules in line with network development and GCC requirements.
- Assess substation busbar sectioning strategies and future substation expansion/connectivity from an operational-security perspective.
- Conduct operational studies relating to the GCC Interconnection Grid, including assessment of interconnection faults and required reporting.
Candidate Profile
- Ten years or more in power system operation planning, in a senior post.
- Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent relevant discipline.
- Fluent spoken and written English.
- Hands-on use of Siemens Spectrum SCADA and EMS.
- Strong coverage network analysis, generation control and scheduling.
- Strong knowledge of how a grid is run in normal and in emergency conditions.
- Strong experience of cross-border power trades and their contracts.
- Substantial transmission-system operational-planning experience in a utility or system-operator environment.
- Strong understanding of load forecasting, generation dispatch, outage planning, contingency analysis and system security.
- Ability to communicate operational risks and mitigation measures clearly to engineering and management stakeholders.
Core Competencies
Technical analysis and modelling | Utility engineering judgement | Clear technical reporting | Stakeholder coordination | Quality and safety focus | Ability to work across multidisciplinary study teams