Grid Coordinator – Control Engineer

Role Overview

• Coordinate the grid connection for Taiwan offshore wind project, ensuring compliance with Taipower grid codes, national regulations, and international standards.
• Ensure compliance with Taiwan’s Electricity Act and related energy policies.
• Work closely with Taiwan Power Company’s Dispatch, Supply, Distribution and Business Divisions, Energy Administration (EA), Industrial Development Administration (IDA), Bureau of Standards, Methodology and Inspection (BSMI), and the Taiwan Power Research Institute to facilitate grid connection.
• Co-ordinating all outages and activities affecting the High Voltage System and associated Low Voltage Sub-Systems.
• Giving consent for the release of Equipment from service.
• Preparation and approval of Switching schedules.
• Giving consent for all High Voltage Switching, except in cases of Emergency Switching.
• Communicating and liaising directly with all Authorized Persons and Senior Authorized Persons who are carrying out activities on the System and ensuring as such they are correctly Authorized to carry out activities on the System.
• Initiate Site-specific Emergency Response procedures and warning of any situations that could affect Personnel working on the System.
• Before giving Consent for the issue of a Permit For Work or Sanction For Test to a Senior Authorized Person, ensuring that the necessary operations to obtain Safety From the System are carried out.
• Giving Consent for the issue, transfer and cancellation of Permit For Work or Sanction For Test Safety Documents to Senior Authorized Persons.
• Maintaining a written record of all High Voltage Switching, application and removal of Safety Precautions and the issue, transfer and cancellation of Permit For Work, Sanction For Test and, where applicable, Limitation Of Access.
• Operation of the supervisory control and data acquisition system (SCADA) and recording of Equipment status and maintaining a log of all operational activities on the System.
• Co-ordination with Control Engineers of adjacent Systems.
• Setting operational parameters of the wind farm and management of alarms/events.
• Identification and classification of work activities related to the grid.
• Control start-up of the grid while acting to the switching plans and procedures.
• Single point of contact to TSO.
• Register (un)permitted downtime and response times in case of failures.
• Approve Permits to Work where works could interfere the grid stability.
• Remote troubleshooting of substation alarms and events.
• Give advises on maintenance strategy.
• 24/7 support for emergencies and fault management (rotation basis).

Requirements

• Control Engineer (CE) Requirements:

1. Authorized to a similar level on similar Safety Rules up to 230kV
2. Minimum 1 year at CE level or higher at a wind farm that uses UK-standard ESR
3. Minimum 1 year of operational experience that uses UK-standard ESR
4. Hands-on ONS, OSS and WTG on-site switching experience within a UK-standard ESR environment
5. Experience with HV equipment with a voltage level equal to or higher than 230kV
6. Requires a valid Siemens 8VM1 switchgear training certificate.
7. Fluent command of Chinese and English (Required to pass the English Authorization Panel).
8. Successful completion of the AE interview is required to verify that the candidate possesses the capabilities and experience necessary for the CE position.

• Minimum requirements: In the event that Control Engineer (CE) authorization level cannot be achieved, the following minimum requirements must be met for the Senior Authorized Person (SAP) role upgrade to 230kV CE Candidate:

1. Minimum 1 year at SAP level at a wind farm that uses UK-standard ESR
2. Minimum 1 year of on-site switching operational experience that uses UK-standard ESR
3. Hands-on ONS, OSS and WTG on-site switching experience within a UK-standard ESR environment
4. Experience with HV equipment with a voltage level equal to or higher than 230kV
5. Requires a valid Siemens 8VM1 switchgear training certificate.
6. Fluent command of Chinese and English Successful completion of the AE interview is required to verify that the candidate possesses the capabilities and experience necessary for the CE position.

Tech Stack

• Switching

Benefits

• 薪資優渥 / Attractive salary
• 提供額外的健康保險以及優厚的病假規定 / Additional health insurance and beneficial sick leave regulation
• 享有卓越的職涯發展與進階培訓機會 / Great career development opportunities and further training possibilities
• 多采多姿的團隊活動 / Varied team events