About the Company
Grid Transformation is a specialist electric-utility operational technology advisory firm. We help utilities turn grid-modernization strategy into operational reality across Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS), Outage Management System (OMS), Distribution Management System (DMS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS), and related capabilities. Our work spans strategy and roadmaps, vendor-neutral assessment, requirements and design, program delivery, testing, process engineering, change, deployment, and operational readiness. We bring a practical perspective grounded in how utilities plan, operate, restore, and modernize the distribution grid.
Job Description
We are seeking an EMS Technical Consultant who can connect electric-transmission operations, power-system applications, and technology delivery. You will work with control-room personnel, transmission engineering, IT/OT, program teams, vendors, and systems integrators to translate operational and technical requirements into system designs, configurations, interfaces, test evidence, and deployment plans. The role combines utility-domain knowledge with hands-on technical delivery and is suited to someone who is comfortable moving from architecture and design discussions to detailed configuration, troubleshooting, and implementation support.
- Assess existing EMS environments, application capabilities, interfaces, infrastructure, and technical constraints; identify gaps, dependencies, risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Translate operational and technical needs into technical requirements, architecture specifications, interface designs, configuration decisions, and acceptance criteria.
- Configure and support SCADA/EMS components, including real-time databases, telemetry processing, alarms, operator displays, historical data, and application services.
- Develop, maintain, and validate transmission network models, equipment parameters, connectivity, measurement mappings, and operating limits.
- Configure, validate, and troubleshoot network applications such as topology processing, state estimation, power flow, and contingency analysis; support generation control and dispatch applications where required.
- Design and support interfaces with neighbouring control centres, substation systems, historians, planning tools, and other utility applications.
- Develop scripts, database queries, and technical utilities to support data migration, model validation, interface testing, and configuration management.
- Review vendor architectures, technical designs, and proposed configurations; assess reliability, performance, maintainability, cybersecurity, and alignment with requirements.
- Develop technical test scenarios and support factory acceptance, site acceptance, integration, performance, failover, regression, and user acceptance testing.
- Investigate application, model, telemetry, and interface defects; document root causes, coordinate resolution, and maintain traceability across requirements, designs, tests, changes, and acceptance evidence.
- Work with infrastructure and cybersecurity teams on system hardening, access controls, monitoring, backup and recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery.
- Prepare technical documentation, deployment procedures, cutover and rollback plans, and support materials; contribute to rehearsals, go-live, hypercare, and operational handover.
Requirements
The successful candidate will bring a practical combination of utility knowledge, technical delivery experience, and client-facing communication:
- Experience performing technical consulting, implementation, integration, or application support on an electric-utility SCADA/EMS program.
- Hands-on experience with at least two commercial EMS platforms, such as GE, Siemens, Emerson, etc. including configuration, troubleshooting, testing, or upgrades.
- Working knowledge of electric-transmission operations, control-center workflows, power-system fundamentals, and the responsibilities of operations, engineering, IT/OT, and support teams.
- Practical experience with transmission network modelling and EMS applications such as state estimation, power flow, and contingency analysis.
- Experience with real-time telemetry, data quality, measurement mapping, alarms, and communication interfaces.
- Working knowledge of relevant protocols and standards, such as ICCP/TASE.2, DNP3, IEC 60870-5-104, and CIM, with hands-on experience appropriate to the project.
- Technical proficiency in Linux/Unix and/or Windows server environments, SQL, relational databases, and scripting or programming used for integration, diagnostics, or automation.
- Experience supporting technical design, data migration, testing, defect resolution, change control, deployment, and operational acceptance.
- Ability to distinguish requirements, design choices, assumptions, constraints, risks, and decisions, and to document each clearly.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, analytical skills, attention to detail, sound judgment, and comfort working through complex technical issues with clients and vendors.
- A degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Willingness to travel to client locations as project assignments require.
- Exposure to Automatic Generation Control, economic dispatch, optimal power flow, operator training simulators, CIM model exchange, NERC CIP, or redundant control-centre architectures is an asset.
We welcome applicants with different backgrounds and career paths who can demonstrate the capabilities needed to succeed. If your experience does not match every listed asset, we still encourage you to apply and explain the perspective you would bring.
