HV Senior Specialist (66kv - 400kv SAP)

Join us in this role where you’ll provide High Voltage Specialist Services under the authorisation of the Orsted electrical safety rules from the turbine interconnection array cables at 34kv up to the 400kv grid connection points. You’ll carry out Operation and Maintenance activities to meet the UK Grid Requirements and also to provide a safe working environment for your colleagues working on site.

Welcome to UK West Engineering
You’ll be part of Transmission and OFTO team where you, together with your colleagues, will play a key role in controlling, operating, and maintaining our HV electrical networks to consistently deliver renewable energy to UK’s electrical distribution infrastructure. Our department ensures the energy our wind farm’s produce can make its way to UK homes and businesses through meticulous adherence, grid code compliance, and continuous improvement of working practices to optimise the availability of our HV equipment.

As a team, we provide HV engineering services to all wind farms throughout the UK and drive collaboration globally to strive towards a world that runs entirely on green energy.

You’ll play an important role in:

• servicing and maintaining High Voltage Equipment

• carry out switching operations on equipment up to 400kv

• produce switching schedules, safety documentation and work procedures for a variety of work activities on complex High Voltage Equipment

• supervise internal and external engineers offering specialist services on both wind turbines and substation assets

• participate in Team project, safety and improvement meetings to deliver Orsted Goals and ambitions

• provide training to Orsted personnel to carry out HV switching operations of their own.

To succeed in the role, you:

• Have complete a HNC in Electrical Engineering or similar
• Have been authorized to carry out High Voltage switching
• Have experience with transmission, generation or renewable energy
• Have experience of Control and Software systems to operating and interrogate high voltage electrical equipment
• Have a proactive, result-oriented and systematic approach to your work tasks
• are equipped with good communication skills and speak and write English fluently

Please note, this role including around 20% of travelling to substations/HV assets in Heysham, Liverpool and North Wales, Travel offshore via CTV and Helicopter.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via accommodation@orsted.com.

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.

About the job
Application deadline:
24 May 2025

Location:
Barrow-in-Furness, GB

Field of work:
Operations and technicians

Employment type:
Permanent

Work hours:
Full-time

Workplace:
On-site

Imagine a future with Ørsted

About Ørsted
- We develop, construct, and operate offshore and onshore wind farms, solar energy farms, storage facilities, and bioenergy plants in Europe, Asia, and North America.

- Our vision is to create a world that runs entirely on green energy.

- We’ve been ranked as one of the world’s most sustainable energy companies for the past six years.

- We’re headquartered in Denmark.

- We have over 8,600 employees, working in 15 countries and growing.

An inclusive team
Ørsted wants all employees to have the same opportunities for impact and growth, regardless of age, nationality, disability, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or beliefs. We’re committed to secure an inclusive work environment characterised by a respect for all people so everyone feels free to openly share their input and ideas.