Senior / Principal FACTS System Design Consultant Flex Grid

Location: London, United Kingdom; Hybrid

Are you passionate about FACTS technology and the role it plays in advancing the energy transition? Join us at DNV as a Senior / Principal FACTS System Design Consultant and play a key part in developing cutting-edge FACTS transmission solutions that enhance affordability, sustainability, and reliability in electricity networks worldwide.

Why DNV?

You will join our innovative global FlexGrid venture, dedicated to scaling up HVDC and FACTS technologies. We work with diverse clients—utilities, system operators, developers, investors, government agencies, EPCs, and OEMs—offering services that range from Technical Advisory and Owner’s Engineering to Independent Engineering. Your expertise will directly contribute to shaping the future of high-voltage electricity transmission.

What you will do:

As our FACTS System Design Consultant you will partner with colleagues on national and international projects, collaborating with teams across DNV in areas like system studies, electrical engineering, offshore wind, permitting, environmental impact analysis, and markets & risk. You provide your expert guidance to the customer, help design and implement FACTS systems that meet evolving industry needs. Lead and contribute to industry training courses, share insights through "lunch & learn" sessions, and represent DNV at conferences and in standards development forums. This role offers flexibility in work location, with a preference for being near our Arnhem (Netherlands) office ore one of DNV’s alternative office locations in Europe: London, Bristol, Glasgow, Oslo, Gothenburg, Dresden.

Responsibilities you can expect are:

• Design and Feasibility Studies: Create conceptual designs for FACTS and AC systems, conduct feasibility studies, and assess CAPEX, OPEX, losses, availability and constructability to meet customers’ unique transmission needs.
• System and Equipment Design: Perform, develop and review electrical system studies, equipment design specs, and general arrangements for FACTS systems and substations.
• System Studies and Modelling: Lead or review simulations and system studies, including dynamic modelling and stability analysis for FACTS systems.
• Control and Protection Strategies: Develop and review strategies for FACTS multi-terminal projects, focusing on converter control, fault management, and grid code compliance.
• Technical Negotiations and Testing: Prepare specifications, support tender processes, and witness commissioning tests (FAT/SAT), ensuring solutions meet customer and regulatory requirements.
• Reporting and Commercial Offers: Deliver clear, high-quality reports and proposals to customers.

 

Besides projects you will also collaborate on developing our service portfolio, monitoring market trends, and contributing to annual planning. You willrepresent DNV at conferences, publish thought leadership, and engage in standardization initiatives (e.g., IEEE, IEC, CIGRE). You will build lasting relationships through business development with new and existing customers, including FACTS OEMs. Finally, you will coach and mentor junior consultants, guiding their technical career growth.

 

About Us

We help customers navigate the complex transition to a decarbonized and more sustainable energy future. We do this by assuring that energy systems work safely and effectively, using solutions that are increasingly digital. We also help industries and governments to navigate the many complex, interrelated transitions taking place globally and regionally, in the energy industry.FlexGrid Venture is DNV's specialized global venture focused on providing strategic advisory, engineering and assurance services in High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) and Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems (FACTS). These technologies are pivotal for integrating renewable energy, enhancing grid stability, and ensuring efficient long-distance power transmission, essential for achieving a sustainable energy future. As the world’s leading resource of independent energy experts and technical advisors we help industries and governments to navigate the numerous transitions taking place in the energy industry as it moves from fossil sources to renewable energy. We are committed to realizing the goals of the Paris Agreement and support our customers to transition faster to a deeply carbonized energy system.