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