Job Description
About the Role
The Senior Authorised Person (SAP) provides safety from the system on the Hai Long high-voltage network, carrying out HV switching, isolations, and earthing, and issuing the associated safety documents under the site's Electrical Safety Rules. The role delivers safe access to plant for maintenance and inspection across the full asset, both onshore and offshore.
Reporting to the HV Manager, the SAP takes switching instructions from the HV Control Engineer in the Operational Control Centre and executes them safely in the field. Between switching activities, the SAP carries out Balance of Plant (BoP) inspection and rectification works, delivers and receives training, and conducts audits of contractors and internal staff. The role is anticipated to be day shift, with a duty person on call to respond to alarms raised by the Operational Controllers. Offshore working is required and may include extended 2-week periods on a Service Operation Vessel (SOV); flexible working arrangements will be agreed accordingly.
This role is recruited against two authorisation profiles (see below). The core responsibilities are common to both; the difference is the voltage band at which the SAP is appointed and the plant on which they are authorised to work
Appointment Profiles:
- Profile A - SAP (66kV): authorised for HV switching and safety-document issue at 66kV
- Profile B - SAP (230kV): authorised for HV switching and safety-document issue up to 230kV
Key Responsibilities
In this capacity, you shall take on a broad range of tasks, including but not limited to the following:
- Act as the Senior Authorised Person, providing safety from the system by carrying out HV switching, isolations, and earthing in accordance with the site's Electrical Safety Rules
- Prepare, issue, and cancel safety documents (permits to work, sanctions for test, and equivalent) for work on HV plant and apparatus, both onshore and offshore
- Prepare and check switching schedules, and execute switching operations under the coordination of the HV Control Engineer in the OCC
- Ensure the safe hand-over of plant ready for work, and the safe return of plant to service on completion
- Between switching activities, carry out BoP inspection and rectification works across the offshore substations, onshore substations, offshore foundations, and offshore WTGs, as directed
- Deliver and participate in regular HV training, and conduct audits and reviews of contractors and internal staff to verify compliance with the safety rules and safe systems of work
- Provide on-call duty cover on a rota basis, responding to alarms and events identified by the Operational Controllers and taking the appropriate switching or operational action
- Support incident investigation and root-cause analysis for HV-related faults, outages, and safety events
- Maintain accurate records of all switching operations, safety documents, and inspection activity, keeping them audit-ready at all times
- Promote a strong health, safety, and environmental culture, undertaking risk assessments and reporting incidents and near misses
- Support HV readiness through the EPC-to-O&M transition, including commissioning switching activities and representation of HV field readiness at the Operational Readiness Review gates
Qualifications & Key Skills
Essential
- Current Senior Authorised Person (SAP) status under an HV Electrical Safety Rules regime - at 66kV (Profile A) or at 230kV (Profile B) - or demonstrable eligibility to be appointed at the relevant band
- Electrical engineering background; degree, or time-served apprenticeship with HV specialisation
- Demonstrated experience carrying out HV switching, isolations, earthing, and the preparation and issue of safety documents
- GWO Basic Safety Training (working at heights, first aid, manual handling, fire awareness, sea survival) and a valid offshore medical, or the ability to obtain them
- Flexibility for offshore working, including extended periods on an SOV, and availability for on-call duty cover
- Fluent Mandarin and English, spoken and written
- Sound understanding of HV plant, apparatus, and associated control and protection
Desirable
- Offshore wind or offshore energy HV experience specifically (submarine cable, offshore substation HV, WTG array systems)
- Experience carrying out BoP inspection and rectification works (substations, foundations, WTGs)
- Experience delivering HV training and conducting safety audits of contractors and staff
- Internation NEBOSH or IOSH qualification
- Taiwan or wider APAC HV experience
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