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Responsible for: system operations, security of supply, management of generation and transmission performance, outage management and incident analysis.

Key roles and responsibilities:• Real time system operations (scheduling & dispatch and voltage control)• Security of electricity supply• Management of generation and transmission performance• Generation outage management• Incident analysis / monitoring and testing of generation • Training of external operational personnel in the EDIL application• Provision of information used for the settlement of the Single Electricity Market• Proficient in RCUC, WSAT, AMP and the Areva EMS incl. the Wind Dispatch Tool• Trained for 2 cycles on the switching desk in CHCC covering: Validation of Requests for Outages Working with safety documents (Permits for Work and Sanctions for Test) Issuing of Emergency E600s Planning and issuing of safety switching instructions Operational switching RISSPs and Telemesses and control boundary changes Runback schemes at Moyle and CPS and other SPSs The Moyle standalone control system

• Team lead for delivery of the first ‘All-Island Transmission Capacity Statement’ • Study Engineer in both the steady state and dynamic time domains using PSS/E• Training of new Grid Ops. Planning staff in system studies• Development of all-island system models in WSAT and PSS/E• Member of DS3 ‘Model Development and Studies’ group• Calculation of the annual TLAF figures for the Single Electricity Market• Member of the TIA planning panel between SONI and NIE

Provided engineering support to the team responsible for testing, repairing and preforming preventative maintenance on probe cards. Worked on a number of projects to improve the efficiency and reliability of the sort factory process. Assessed factory indicators and highlighted any issues factory equipment and tools.