Power System Consultant

Job description

Change the future with us.

We are looking for dedicated and talented people who tackle ever-changing challenges, customer needs, and questions from colleagues with clever concepts and creativity. We embrace change and work with curious minds re-inventing the future of work. Join us and let us focus together on what’s truly important: making lives better with new ideas and the latest technology around the world.

Why you’ll love working for Siemens!

• Freedom and a healthy work-life balance– Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting, and digital workspaces.
• Solve the world’s most significant problems – Be part of exciting and innovative projects.
• Engaging, challenging, and fast-evolving, innovative technological environment.
• Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.
• Competitive total rewards package.
• Profit sharing available.
• Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy and sell your vacation depending on your lifestyle.
• Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology, sustaining communities, and making a positive impact on the community.
• Participate in our celebrations, social events, and offsite business events.
• Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get paid for them!
• Employee perks and discounts.
• Diversity and inclusivity focused.

Siemens is proud to be an eight-time award winner of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers 2022, Canada’s Top Employers for Young People 2024 and Greater Toronto's Top Employers 2022.

We are looking for a Power Systems Consultant to join Grid Software’s Power Technologies International (PTI) team. This role is critical to the planning and integration of renewables, storage, and FACTS to the electrical grid. This is a remote position based in Canada.

What will you do?

• Performs transmission planning through the application of power systems planning principles to simulate and analyze the power system steady state and dynamic behavior
• Prepare detailed written reports describing analyses performed, conclusions, and recommendations.
• Work in small project teams, ensuring deliverables are of high quality and projects are completed within budget and schedule.
• Develop automation scripts to improve the speed and accuracy of simulations and analysis.

What will you need to succeed?

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (specialization in Power and Energy Systems an asset)
• Practical experience in using advanced power system analysis tools.
• 1+ years of relevant experience in the electric power industry. Advanced degree and internships MAY be substituted for experience.
• Candidate must have knowledge (experience, coursework or applicable internship) of transmission system planning or operations with experience analyzing power flow, dynamic stability, and electromagnetic transients.

• Can discuss findings clearly via reports and presentations.
• Great written and spoken communication skills in English.

Preferred qualifications:

• Practical familiarity with using advanced power system analysis tools (i.e. PSS^®E, PSS^®SINCAL, TARA, ASPEN, PowerWorld or PSLF)
• Familiarity with one or more programming languages such as Python is preferred.
• Prior experience in Power System Consulting.
• Transmission system planning or operations experience in MISO, SPP, NYISO, ISO-NE, PJM

• Industry experience performing distribution planning and/or production costing considered a plus

About us.

We share our ideas and champion the people behind them.

For over 110 years, Siemens Canada has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality, and reliability. Active across Canada, the company focuses on intelligent infrastructure for buildings and distributed energy systems and on automation and digitalization in the process and manufacturing industries. Siemens brings together the digital and physical worlds to benefit customers and society. Through Mobility, a leading supplier of intelligent mobility solutions for rail and road transport, Siemens is helping to shape Canada’s passenger rail services. Via its majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, Siemens is also a leading supplier of medical technology and digital health services. In addition, Siemens holds a minority stake in Siemens Energy, a global leader in the transmission and generation of electrical power.

Making a difference together we raised $385,000 towards charitable contributions, supported over 38 non-profit organizations, and planted 660 trees in our local communities. Siemens Canada has 2,500 employees from coast to coast and 24 office and production facilities across Canada. Join our team of approximately 293,000 talented professionals in more than 190 countries/regions and help us tackle the most exciting challenges to build a successful future together. So, what are you waiting for? Take your next career step with us.

To learn more about Siemens Canada, visit our website at www.siemens.ca

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