AddressManager - Future System Studies Department : System Design
Division : Future Energy Systems
Reference number : 11057
Navigate the future of Energy! Build and lead an Engineering Centre of Excellence. Contribute to the evolution of sustainable power and driving innovation in renewable technologies. The Manager Future System Studies will lead a high performing team at the cutting edge of power system engineering! Competitive salary packaging arrangements, bonus and ongoing learning and development opportunities. Flexible, hybrid working arrangements. Multiple office locations across Australia.
AEMO at the Heart of Energy
We are the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), committed to designing and operating a sustainable energy system that delivers safe, reliable, and affordable electricity and gas. Our mission includes facilitating the transition to a net-zero energy system by 2050, working collaboratively with industry partners to enable power systems to be capable of operating at times at 100% instantaneous renewable generation. We have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to co-design the future of our energy systems, and our core values revolve around Character, Commitment, and Connection. Join us as we contribute to this significant mission in the energy sector.
AEMO’s System Design division is responsible for planning the power system in the context of unprecedented transformation, supporting AEMO’s mission of designing a sustainable energy system that provides affordable, safe, and reliable energy for all Australians.
The Future Energy Systems (FES) department sits within AEMO’s System Design division and has accountability for evolving the Engineering Roadmap to 100% instantaneous renewables and implementing a number of strategic technical projects identified within it. This includes providing a holistic view of the engineering needs of the changing energy system, helping prioritise approaches that resolve the most pressing technical issues, and initiating action across industry to enable the National Electricity Market (NEM) to realise its potential to manage 100% instantaneous penetration of renewables.
Navigate the future of Energy! Build and lead an Engineering Centre of Excellence and contribute to the evolution of sustainable power and driving innovation in renewable technologies.The Manager Future System Studies will lead and inspire a high performing team at the cutting edge of power system engineering. This position has the ability to WFH with flexible and hybrid working arrangements with multiple office locations across Australia. Competitive salary packaging arrangements, bonus and ongoing learning and development opportunities.
About the role Managing a team of up to ten individuals, the Manager - Future System Studies is accountable for a key element of how Australia navigates the energy future, by building and leading an Engineering Centre of Excellence and a team of highly skilled, future focussed power system engineers who are at the cutting edge of power system engineering.
The incumbent and their senior staff will be leading technical voices on emerging power system phenomena, helping the NEM stay ahead of emerging technical challenges by identifying risks ahead of time and helping enable proactive solutions.
You will be a trusted partner of Network Service Providers (NSPs), and AEMO’s operational and planning teams, providing high quality service and advice.
Flexibility to be based in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney (CBD or Norwest), Adelaide or Perth.
What you will be doing
- Lead the Future System Studies team including attracting, retaining, nurturing, and developing a high-performing team that demonstrates AEMO’s values and has an inclusive and innovative culture. Manage external consultants where required who will provide expert technical advice. Contribute to enterprise leadership and stakeholder trust as a member of the FES Management team and support the development and implementation of Departmental, Divisional and team initiatives in line with overall strategies.
- Lead the future power system study elements of the Engineering Roadmap, including the analysis of emerging power system phenomena, new technology capabilities, and major system transition points, whilst working closely with key internal and external stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain power system study capability, tools, models, and future state cases for technical investigations.
- Lead the specification of technical requirements and capability from emerging technologies commencing with grid forming.
- Lead projects aimed at assisting project proponents in evaluating the service contributions of their assets.
- Deliver a program of planning studies in collaboration with Transmission network service providers (TNSPs) to prepare for future system transition points.
- Engineering expertise and input – Provide engineering expertise and advisory services to support reform development and implementation, by ensuring that new policy, regulatory and market mechanisms take appropriate account of technical and power system engineering requirements.
- Enabling the secure operation of a rapidly transforming NEM power system – Motivating and enabling the team to deliver on assigned accountabilities, effectively influencing internal and external stakeholders to support timely action by other parties.
- Stakeholder engagement – Engage with internal and external stakeholders to provide expert advice on future power system development and energy system issues, influencing decision-making processes and maintain currency of information. Stakeholders include executive levels internally and externally, encompassing various market bodies, government, business and industry entities.
- Technical communication – Manage the production of clear, concise, and high quality written and verbal communication to inform internal or external stakeholders on a range of issues for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Manage team budget, risk register, resourcing, and compliance obligations setting clear performance expectations for staff (both technical and behavioural).
What you will bring to the role
Education/Certificates
- Appropriate tertiary and/or postgraduate qualifications in a relevant discipline (for example engineering)
Experience and Knowledge
- Deep expertise in the operation and planning of large power systems, and the engineering challenges that need to be addressed as the NEM power system transitions.
- Demonstrated experience in building and managing teams that work in complex technical environments - shaping a proactive and ownership-based team culture, fostering a service oriented, outcome-focused, and pragmatic approach to problem solving.
- Demonstrated experience in project planning, reporting, and delivery; ensuring that projects are delivered to budget and schedule, and to a high quality.
- Demonstrated experience making innovation and change happen, thinking strategically about the requirements of the future, being comfortable with ambiguity, and driving outcomes in the face of resistance.
- Well-developed and demonstrated analytical skills sufficient to review, critique and approve the modelled outcomes that underpin key messages to stakeholders.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and editorial skills.
- Demonstrated experience in managing strategic changes that require extensive stakeholder engagement and negotiation.
- Demonstrated experience in managing a variety of stakeholders with conflicting interests, negotiating agreed outcomes, and delivering these on time and to budget.
- Experience in facilitating industry working groups and negotiating the resolution of complex issues across stakeholders with competing objectives and a variety of commercial and reputational drivers.
- Experience in managing a diverse set of matrixed resources with differing skill sets and objectives to achieve time and budget requirements.
- Understanding of the NER, the NEM, and the Rule change framework.
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In return some of our benefits to you
- Flexible working: work from home, part time, job share, hybrid options, and additional leave options
- Professional development via projects, industry networks, job rotation, study assistance and more.
- Give back with up to 4 days of volunteering leave per year.
- Reward your hard work with annual performance bonuses (subject to eligibility).
- Embrace a healthier you with our wellness program, discounted health insurance, gym perks and our comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
About Our Process
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