Grid Integration Specialist, Lithuania

Grid Integration Specialist, Lithuania

Do you have a background in Electrical Engineering and would like to join a green company with an important agenda? We are looking for our new Grid Integration Specialist located in Vilnius, where you will have the professional responsibility of ensuring grid connection of our large pipeline of wind- and Solar power projects.

European Energy is a green company in exponential growth. We develop, construct, and operate projects within solar- (PV) and wind farms globally, as well as Power-to-X. Our six core values are the foundation of everything we do: In it together, Trust and courage, Ambition, Excitement, Inclusion, and Agility.

Your new department

As our new Grid Integration Specialist, you will be part of our EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) department which handles all the engineering activities of European Energy. Among these are the ensuring grid connection agreements, providing grid compliant park design, optimize park designs and achieving the final permits for power generation, that enables the parks to create green power and value.

Increased number of projects, requires a lift in colleagues being able to lift the tasks at hand. To succeed, it is important to manage project electrical design preparation and compliance with the grid requirements as well as ensuring design compliance to local norms and regulations.

At present we rely on local consultants to carry out the grid and substation design. With more and bigger projects we need to increase our engagement with the grid and substation design and quality.

The Grid Integration team (a part of EPC) consists of six specialists located in Søborg and one located in Milan (Italy). You will work in close cooperation with the specialists and have the possibility to utilize their in-house expertise. Your everyday work life will be from the office in Vilnius or out on the local sites. Furthermore you will have the professional management of our local consultants in Lithuania (presently from Kaunas) to ensure quality and progress.

Your new role

The new Grid Integration Specialist will become a part of company’s expert environment working with grid integration. You will be responsible for ensuring correct and timely connection of our wind and solar parks in Lithuania. In the role as Grid Integration Specialist, you will have a broad interface internally e.g. to project managers, project developers, etc. and externally to TSOs, DSOs, and consultants.

Responsibilities:

• Technical dialogue and negotiation with DSOs/TSOs regarding the grid connection, and ultimately the grid connection agreement.
• Ensuring continuous overview of the national technical and legal requirements needed (according to local norms and regulations but also including EU network code (RfG) to obtain the needed permits/operational notifications (EON, ION and FON permits) for wind and solar farms.
• Management of our local grid consultants.
• Negotiation with TSO for suitable Grid Connection Condition.
• Review and evaluation of Grid Connection Conditions and managing the fulfillment of these.
• Ensuring that substation design (producers part) meet standard EE requirements (SCADA functions, equipment specifications, etc.)
• In cooperation with EPC and project development teams scoping and tendering of electrical subcontractors for the design preparation and construction phase.
• Providing estimates of Grid Connection CAPEX, related to each project.

Your Profile:

You have:

• 3-5+ years relevant professional experience from Lithuanian distribution and transmission systems sector regarding: Grid Compliance Requirements for Grid Connection, Grid Analysis, planning and design.
• You have a Bachelor and/or a Master in Electrical Engineering.
• Fluent in Lithuanian and English.
• Knowledge and experience with PSS/E (Powerfactory, PSCAD etc.) would be beneficial.
• Experience with TSO and Grid Integration of the power plants would be beneficial.
• Team player, skills, as well as solid interpersonal, organizational and communication skills.
• Preferably knowledge of construction law, requirement and processes in Lithuania.

As a person you are thorough, persistent, high-quality minded, goal-oriented and possibly also outgoing of nature.

With us you get

• You will be part of a rapid growing company within the green transition.
• Knowledge sharing is important for us. We start every Monday with our global weekly morning meeting. Here the executive management and departments give us an update on projects and current focus areas.
• We have a yearly company trip to engage socially and visit a project site.

The Company

European Energy is a Danish privately owned company founded in 2004. We are with all the way from development, construction, operation and selling of wind- and photovoltaic (PV) farms on land as well as on sea globally. Further, we work with development of the future energy solutions, e.g. Power-to-X. We have a solid collaboration with local stakeholders and want to involve all parts in the process.

We are now more than 600 employees with 38 nationalities represented in 20 countries. We all work for our common goal to be the most innovative company within the green transition and to create The Power of Tomorrow, Today.

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Workplace: Vilnius, Lithuania

Travel activities: Yes, occasional visits to sites, authorities, consultants and to headquarters in Copenhagen (DK)

Manager: Director, Head of Grid Integration, Niels Christian Nordentoft

Apply: Send your CV including your motivation for the job via the link to the right. We invite for conversations on a continuous basis, so please send your application as soon as possible.

Contact person: Talent Acquisition Specialist, Mette Sommerlund Thomsen, [email protected]

Salary Level Lithuania: 5000/6000/EUR per month depending on experience.

Our working environment is built on mutual respect for the varied strengths and talents of our employees, with a flat hierarchy and entrepreneurial thinking at its foundation. Our employees value our flexible working culture, permitting better reconciliation of work and personal life. We are a team, whether it is in the workplace, on our company trips or during our weekly company training sessions. At European Energy, you will not only gain great colleagues, but also new friends from every corner of the globe.