Power System Engineer

## Power System Engineer Apply:
Warwick, CV34 6DA
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Wokingham, RG41 5BN
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Glasgow, G2 1PP
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Full time:
Posted Yesterday:
End Date:
November 15, 2026 (11 days left to apply):
JR101143
** About the Role
** National Energy System Operator (NESO) are looking to hire talented Power System Engineers to join our Strategic Energy Planning function. This exciting role brings unique opportunities for a person with a passion to accelerate our progress to net zero. You will be helping to solve engineering challenges in developing energy networks and setting strategic direction for energy network plans. We have opportunities for Power System and Senior Power Systems Engineers (L6-8) to join us.

National Energy System Operator (NESO) are looking to hire a talented Power System Engineer to join our Strategic Energy Planning function within the Transmission & Distribution Interface team. This exciting role provides power-system engineering and analytical expertise to support the assessment of current and future interactions between the transmission and distribution networks. You will undertake, interpret and challenge network studies to identify constraints, operability risks and system needs arising from changes in demand, generation, storage and network configuration, translating analysis into clear engineering insights and practical recommendations.

Working collaboratively with Transmission Owners, Distribution Network Owners and internal planning, connections and operability teams, you will develop technically robust, whole-system solutions at Grid Supply Points and across transmission-distribution interfaces. You will provide the engineering evidence required to inform strategic planning and investment decisions and communicate complex power-system analysis clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders. These roles can be based from Wokingham, Warwick or Glasgow, and we continue to offer hybrid working from office and home.

We are open to full-time and part-time applicants, as well as flexible working arrangements.
** Key Accountabilities
*** Developing network designs to support power system requirements, e.g. reinforcing network boundaries or overcoming current interface issues.
* Supporting future GSP Strategy, thinking of the network as a whole
* Working with economic engineer colleagues to undertake modelling of proposed network plans.
* Undertaking, interpreting and critically reviewing power-system studies, including load flow and contingency analysis, voltage and reactive-power assessment, fault-level analysis, thermal capability, network constraint assessment and wider system operability studies, where relevant.
* Developing, validating and interrogating network models, including understanding modelling assumptions, sensitivities and limitations of study results.
* Translating strategic network, policy and investment questions into appropriate power-system studies, defining the required scenarios, network backgrounds, sensitivities, contingencies and assessment criteria.
* Automating power-system analysis using DIgSILENT Power Factory, including Python API and/or DPL scripting, and developing batch-study processes covering substations, GSPs, contingencies, scenarios and study years.
* Analysing different designs from a deliverability and operability perspective, including impacts on network owners, developers and NESO as system operator
* Identifying emerging and future system performance issues and operability challenges, and translating findings into concise, evidence-based engineering recommendations.
* Combining detailed power-system analysis with wider strategic network planning to identify how emerging system needs should influence future GSP, substation and transmission-distribution interface development.
* Interpreting TO and DNO engineering standards, equipment specifications, ratings and design requirements, and understanding how these affect future network and substation development.
* Working with multiple NESO teams to seek feedback on proposed network and operability solutions.
* Working with impacted stakeholders, including Transmission Owners and Distribution Network Owners, to discuss and develop technically robust, whole-system network and operability solutions.
* Leading and representing NESO internally and externally.
* Producing clear technical reports and communicating complex engineering analysis to technical and non-technical stakeholders. We understand that candidates may not meet and have experience of all the…