System Operations Consultant (Utilities)

Location: London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global, a member of WSP, is a global environmental, engineering, and energy-sector consulting firm delivering digital grid, infrastructure, and utility solutions.

What you will do

• Provide system-operations and control-room expertise to transmission and distribution system operators.
• Design, implement, optimise, and operate SCADA, EMS, DMS, ADMS, DERMS, DSA, and related operational technology platforms.
• Improve real-time monitoring, situational awareness, alarm management, network visualisation, and operational decision support.
• Support DSO transformation, DER and renewable integration, demand response, energy storage, flexibility services, and TSO-DSO coordination.
• Develop operational use cases, business requirements, system specifications, solution architectures, interfaces, and test scenarios.
• Lead or support client projects, workshops, vendor evaluations, solution testing, commissioning, acceptance, and delivery-risk management.

Requirements

• 3–6 years of experience in the energy and utilities sector, including system operations for TSOs, DSOs, generation companies, or utility consultancies.
• Experience with control-centre solutions, OT applications, network models, standardisation, and data cleansing.
• Strong understanding of grid and system-operations processes.
• Practical knowledge of utility integration and data standards including IEC 60870-5-104/101, ICCP, IEC 61850, OpenADR, IEEE 2030.5, Kafka, AMQP/MQTT, CIM, and CGMES.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills across business, operations, IT/OT, engineering, vendor, and executive stakeholders.
• Degree or HND in Electrical/Power Engineering, Computer Science, a related discipline, or relevant industry experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with GE e-terra, Power On, GridOS, Hitachi Network Manager, OSI Monarch, Siemens Gridscale X, Spectrum Power, SE ADMS, or AGMS.
• PRINCE2, PMP, TOGAF, or vendor data-management qualifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Access to training, career development, new skills, and professional certifications.
• Eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus based on company, business-segment, and individual performance.
• Work on challenging power, energy, infrastructure, environmental, and property projects.
• Inclusive equal-opportunity workplace with a commitment to diversity.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted on an ongoing, rolling basis.