Senior Operations Planning Engineer – Siemens Spectrum Power EMS

About the role

Siemens Spectrum Power EMS is recruiting a Senior Operations Planning Engineer in Kuwait for a 12-month assignment. The role develops short- and medium-term operating plans that maintain continuity of supply, system security and economical dispatch, 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 the generation availability needed 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 and connectivity from an operational-security perspective.
• Conduct operational studies on the GCC Interconnection Grid, including assessment of interconnection faults and required reporting.

Required profile

• Ten years or more in power system operation planning, in a senior post.
• Degree in Electrical Engineering or an equivalent relevant discipline.
• Fluent spoken and written English.
• Substantial transmission-system operational-planning experience in a utility or system-operator environment.
• Strong experience of cross-border power trades and their contracts.

Required skills

• 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 emergency conditions.
• 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.