Company description
Vattenfall is one of Europe's largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat. Our main markets are Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the UK. The Vattenfall Group has around 20,000 employees. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming lives through innovation for over a century. Our goal is fossil-free. We are working towards a future where everyone can choose fossil-free ways to move, manufacture and live.
Vattenfall Eldistribution AB distributes electricity to households, businesses and society - around the clock, all year round. Our electricity network is over 12,000 miles long and we distribute electricity to almost 900,000 customers. We build, operate, maintain and invest in our electricity network to ensure that you as a customer receive a reliable supply.
Read more about us at https://www.vattenfalleldistribution.se/om-oss/
About the role
Sweden has embarked on a historic transition and is facing a comprehensive electrification of society. To demonstrate our ambition to contribute to the energy transition and to continue to enable increased electrification of Sweden, we aim to distribute twice as much electricity in our grid by 2030 and to transmit electricity with 99.99% reliability.
We are now looking for you who have at least a few years of experience as a control plant engineer and who now want to deepen your knowledge of relay protection, selective plans and interference analysis in the role of Protection and Control Analyst.
Selective planning manages the control plant and is responsible for developing relay protection settings and designing the relay protection system. The department provides expertise to ensure reliable fault clearance in our existing facilities, taking into account personal safety, security of supply, environment and economy. In the coming years, we will increase investments in our facilities throughout Sweden. Selective planning is involved in all investment and connection projects.
The role of Protection and Control Analyst
The work as a Protection and Control Analyst is a stimulating job in a department with a good atmosphere, close cooperation and very high competence in selective planning.
In the role of Protection and Control Analyst, you will be part of our department working with relay protection settings, design of relay protection systems, fault analysis and plant management. You will also participate in the development work conducted within the unit.
As a Protection and Control Analyst you will be responsible for:
- Investigations and disturbance analysis in case of operational disturbances
- Selective planning by being responsible for developing selective plans
- Fault current calculations
- As a plant owner, develop gap analyses and proposals for measures in control equipment
- As a plant owner and requirements developer, participate in investment projects
Requirements specification
We are looking for you who have:
- An engineering degree at post-secondary level in electrical power, or equivalent competence acquired in another way that we consider equivalent
- A minimum of three years of experience working as a control plant engineer or equivalent
- Easy to express yourself in speech and writing in Swedish and English
It is meritorious if you have
- Experience working with meshed 130kV networks
- Experience in programming in, for example, Python, VBA, C# or similar
Further information
We offer
In addition to helping shape the smart energy society of the future, you will be part of our vision to enable a climate-smart life. With us, you will have the opportunity to work in a corporate culture where we strive to be open, active and positive with tasks that develop and challenge you. The health and well-being of our employees and partners is important to us. A good working environment is fundamental to everything we do and safety is always at the center. For us, it is important that your personal values are in line with our culture of making each other better, staying one step ahead and delivering on our promises.
We also have a lot of other staff benefits such as reduced working hours, favorable occupational pension agreements, parental leave allowance and more. Read more about our benefits here.
Place of employment
Solna or Luleå
If you want to know more about the position, please contact the recruiting manager Tobias Klockare via tobias.klockare@vattenfall.com for Luleå or Martin Vestling via martin.vestling@vattenfall.com for Stockholm.
For questions about the recruitment process. contact the responsible recruiter: Peder Andersson via peder5.andersson@vattenfall.com
Trade union representatives for this position are Christian Ericsson, Ledarna, Anne-Marie Sjöbohm, Akademikerna, Asim Nokic, Unionen, Ulf Tengman, SEKO. All contact persons can be reached via Vattenfall's switchboard 08-739 50 00.
Please send your application no later than November 24th!
We are convinced that diversity helps build a more profitable and appealing company and strive to be good role models when it comes to diversity. Vattenfall works actively to ensure that all employees have the same opportunities and rights regardless of age, ethnic or cultural background, gender, religion/belief, sexual orientation or disability. Read more about how we work with diversity and inclusion here.
Vattenfall is part of Sweden's critical infrastructure, thus many of our services are security classified. If this position is security classified, a security clearance will be carried out before employment, in accordance with the Security Protection Act.
We look forward to your application!