Senior System Operations Consultant (Utilities)

Location: London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global, a member of WSP, is a global consulting, environmental, and engineering firm serving the power and energy, transportation, infrastructure, environmental, and property and buildings sectors.

What you will do

• Advise transmission and distribution system operators on power-system operations, operational processes, and control-room functions.
• Design, implement, optimize, test, and operate SCADA, EMS, DMS, ADMS, DERMS, DSA, forecasting, and related control-centre platforms.
• Improve real-time monitoring, situational awareness, alarm management, network visualization, data quality, and operational decision support.
• Support DSO transformation, DER and renewable integration, demand response, energy storage, flexibility services, and TSO-DSO coordination.
• Lead or contribute to client projects, workshops, requirements engineering, vendor evaluations, solution design, commissioning, and acceptance activities.
• Prepare technical specifications, process and architecture documentation, recommendations, and reusable assets while contributing to practice development and thought leadership.

Requirements

• 6–10+ years of experience in the energy and utilities sector, including significant system-operations experience with TSOs, DSOs, generation companies, or utility consultancies.
• Experience with control-centre solutions, OT applications, network models, standardization, and data cleansing.
• Strong understanding of grid and system-operations processes, including AGC, LFC, frequency regulation, balancing, ancillary services, and DSA.
• Practical experience with utility integration and data standards such as IEC 60870-5-104/101, ICCP, IEC 61850, OpenADR, IEEE 2030.5, Kafka, AMQP/MQTT, CIM, and CGMES.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, requirements, and stakeholder-management skills across business, operations, IT, OT, vendors, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Degree or HND in Electrical or Power Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or relevant industry experience.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Career development through training, new skills, and professional certifications.
• Annual discretionary bonus eligibility based on company, business-segment, and individual performance.
• Inclusive workplace with equal-opportunity employment practices.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted on an ongoing, rolling basis.