We are the people behind Ireland’s national electricity grid. We make sure that every home, business, school, hospital, factory and farm has power - when and where they need it. And that’s just the beginning of our story. We are now transforming the power system for future generations. Be part of the change.
EirGrid Group has a unique role to play in leading this radical transformation of our power system in support of the transition to renewable energy. This will require pioneering effort together with a substantially enhanced IT capability to respond successfully to the scale of disruption.
This offers a unique opportunity to further your career in IT while playing a significant role in delivering EirGrid Group’s IT transformation. Our future has never looked more exciting. And this is an incredible opportunity to be part of it. The world is ready for change. If you are too, join us.
We’re an IT intensive business, and we operate a state-of-the-art, specialised business-critical systems, 24/7. Central to this is EirGrid Group’s Energy Management System (EMS) which supports the Group’s core power system operational function and is supporting the transition to renewable energy. The IT Applications team operates across all four operational sites in Dublin and Belfast and is responsible for the development and support of EirGrid Group’s core Energy Management System (EMS) and other related applications. The function is supplemented by a suite of additional real-time supporting systems from wind forecast security assessment tools to complex scheduling applications and real-time unit dispatch.
The critical nature of the work we do, and the experience it offers, provides an exciting opportunity for a Senior SCADA Specialist in the IT Applications team within the Chief People and Information Office.
You will be responsible for key elements of a rolling programme of work for the modelling, deployment, testing and pre-commissioning work of new plant in the EMS, ensuring that the power system model keeps pace with the physical power system. You will take responsibility for release management and testing of EMS database updates and Grid Controller displays in the Control Centre in Ireland, in collaboration with the team in Belfast.
We will look to you to deliver network model data updates required to support the broader Integrated Single Electricity Market requirements for EMS including seamless provision of feeds and the provision of network models. You will plan and manage major and minor projects required for the successful delivering of new capability to the Energy Management System and take ownership and manage operational issues as they arise, coach staff, provide technical expertise and act as an escalation point.
You will manage relationships with customers in relation to service delivery and the implementation of change and you will also manage stakeholder engagements of both internal and external stakeholders (technical and non-technical) including key external vendors and internal service providers.
You will be asked to participate in a defined 24-hour rota to assist and support, in real-time, the troubleshooting of issues for our key customers and provide subject matter expertise to resolve these issues and to participate in Disaster Recovery drills and contribute to EirGrid Group’s Business Continuity Management process.
