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
Do you want an exciting everyday life and work for a fossil-free future? As an Electricity Network Engineer/Power System Analyst with us, you will be able to influence tomorrow's climate-smart society and create the electricity network of the future.
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.
This means that Vattenfall Electricity Distribution needs to continue to grow and we are now looking for an Electricity Network Engineer/Power System Analyst who has experience of electricity networks (local or regional networks) and an interest in analysis and calculation.
Responsibilities
As an Electricity Network Engineer/Power System Analyst with us, you will be part of the Selective Planning unit with about 30 colleagues with great technical knowledge and experience of Sweden's regional and local networks. The work we do contributes to increasing Vattenfall Electricity Network's security of supply and is therefore an important piece of the puzzle in Sweden's green electrification.
In your role, you will mainly use your electrical power expertise for complex analyzes and calculations of relay protection settings, as well as be a requirement setter when designing relay protection systems that ensure reliable and safe fault disconnection in our electricity network.
You will work with:
- Investigations and fault analyses in case of operational disturbances
- Development of selective plans for local and regional networks
- Fault current calculations
- Participate in project groups for investment projects
- Management of control facilities
- Internal development of working methods
We work mainly from our offices, but have regular contact with operating staff and control facility engineers in the field. In addition, we often collaborate with other units within the company, such as: Grid Analysis, Project Engineering and Power Quality.
Requirements
We are looking for you who have:
- a post-secondary engineering degree in electrical power, or equivalent competence acquired in another way that we consider equivalent
- experience in electricity networks (local or regional networks)
- interest in calculations and analyzes
- good ability to express yourself in speech and writing in Swedish and English
It is meritorious if you have experience of
- working with meshed power grids
- development of selective plans
- working with control plants
- working with HVDC
- programming in, for example, Python, VBA, C# or similar
- project management
Further information
We offer
In addition to helping shape the smart energy society of the future, we offer a workplace where you constantly learn new things that enable several development opportunities. With our career and development model, we want to create clarity in the opportunities you have to develop in the direction you want. It is important that your whole life works, which is why we want our employees to have a good work-life balance. We believe that diversity and inclusion lead to innovation, improved business performance and increased engagement and we strive to represent the diversity of our customers and the communities in which we operate. Find out more about us at: www.vattenfalleldistribution.se
We also have a wide range of other employee benefits such as reduced working hours, favorable occupational pension agreements, parental leave allowance and more. Read more about our benefits here.
Location
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 Tobias Pütz via tobias.puetz@vattenfall.com for Stockholm.
For questions about the recruitment process. contact the responsible recruiter: Caroline Grammenos via caroline.grammenos@vattenfall.com
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 February 9, 2025. We only accept applications via our website.
Vattenfall is part of Sweden's critical infrastructure, thus many of our services are security classified. If this position is classified, a security clearance will be carried out before employment, in accordance with the Security Protection Act.
We look forward to your application!