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Grid Code Compliance Leadership
Own the overall Grid Code Compliance Strategy and maintain the compliance roadmap.
Ensure compliance with Saudi Arabian Grid Code, TRCG requirements, utility connection agreements, and applicable transmission regulations.
Establish compliance milestones and monitor execution against schedule.
Provide clear reporting on compliance status, risks, decisions required, and approval progress.
2.2 Utility and Regulatory Interface
Act as the primary technical focal point with SEC / Saudi Electricity, transmission operators, regulators, and independent reviewers.
Lead technical workshops, compliance reviews, approval meetings, and comment close-out sessions.
Coordinate closure of regulator comments, technical queries, and submission cycles.
Manage approval of technical reports, study packages, and supporting documentation.
2.3 Grid Compliance Studies
Lead and coordinate dynamic studies, including DMAT, dynamic impact studies, model benchmarking, voltage stability, and frequency stability.
Lead and coordinate static studies, including load flow, short circuit, reactive power, transformer energization, and transmission line auto-reclosing studies.
Manage power quality activities including harmonic studies, filter design validation, and power quality assessments.
Coordinate grid interaction studies, including control interaction, small signal stability, SSCI, SSTI, and MIIF assessments.
2.4 OEM and Contractor Coordination
Coordinate technical activities across solar, wind, BESS, electrolyser, STATCOM, EPC, study consultant, and protection vendor teams.
Obtain and track validated PSS/E, PSCAD, DIgSILENT, and RTDS models as required.
Monitor OEM issue resolution and ensure model updates align with compliance requirements.
Drive closure of technical issues impacting study completion, utility approval, energization, or full-load operation.
2.5 RTDS and Model Validation
Lead Real-Time Digital Simulation compliance activities and model benchmarking.
Coordinate hardware-in-the-loop and controller testing where required.
Ensure consistency between PSCAD models, PSS/E models, RTDS models, and site-installed systems.
Support Site Acceptance Testing and commissioning activities requiring validated models.
2.6 Controls and Protection Compliance
Ensure compliance of active power control, voltage control, Fast Generation Shedding, Fast Load Shedding, protection schemes, and plant controller functions.
Coordinate validation of grid-forming and grid-following controls through studies, testing, and field verification.
Confirm that control and protection logic supports stable grid operation and agreed utility requirements.
2.7 Risk Management
Identify and manage risks associated with grid connection approvals, study completion delays, harmonics, model readiness, OEM performance, protection coordination, and regulatory compliance.
Establish mitigation plans and escalate unresolved risks with clear impact statements.
Maintain a Grid Compliance Risk Register and action tracker.
2.8 Commissioning and Start-up Support
Support energization and commissioning strategy from a grid compliance perspective.
Review switching philosophies, operating procedures, and grid-code demonstration requirements.
Support first energization, first synchronization, performance testing, and operational demonstrations.
Participate in start-up readiness reviews and operational handover activities
Founded in 1940, Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company and has a proud history of innovation, operational excellence, with an unwavering commitment to safety and environmental stewardship. Working together, we are taking our passion and diverse backgrounds forward to reimagine what’s possible and generate a cleaner future for our customers, our communities, and the world.
Skills Required
- Knowledge of Saudi Arabian Grid Code and TRCG requirements
- Experience interfacing with SEC / Saudi Electricity and transmission regulators
- Lead dynamic studies (DMAT, dynamic impact, voltage and frequency stability)
- Lead static studies (load flow, short circuit, reactive power, transformer energization)
- Power quality and harmonic study experience, filter design validation
- Experience with PSS/E, PSCAD, DIgSILENT (PowerFactory) and RTDS modeling and validation
- Coordinate hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and controller testing and RTDS activities
- Familiarity with grid interaction studies: control interaction, small signal stability, SSCI, SSTI, MIIF
- Experience coordinating across OEMs, EPCs, protection vendors, and study consultants
- Ensure compliance of active power control, voltage control, fast generation/load shedding, and protection schemes
- Support commissioning, site acceptance testing, and first energization from a grid compliance perspective
- Risk identification and mitigation for grid connection approvals and study completion delays
What We Do
Air Products (NYSE:APD) is a world-leading industrial gases company in operation for over 80 years focused on serving energy, environmental, and emerging markets. The Company has two growth pillars driven by sustainability. Air Products’ base business provides essential industrial gases, related equipment and applications expertise to customers in dozens of industries, including refining, chemicals, metals, electronics, manufacturing, and food. The Company also develops, engineers, builds, owns and operates some of the world's largest clean hydrogen projects supporting the transition to low- and zero-carbon energy in the heavy-duty transportation and industrial sectors. Additionally, Air Products is the world leader in the supply of liquefied natural gas process technology and equipment, and provides turbomachinery, membrane systems and cryogenic containers globally. The Company had fiscal 2023 sales of $12.6 billion from operations in approximately 50 countries and has a current market capitalization of about $65 billion. Approximately 23,000 passionate, talented and committed employees from diverse backgrounds are driven by Air Products’ higher purpose to create innovative solutions that benefit the environment, enhance sustainability and reimagine what's possible to address the challenges facing customers, communities, and the world.
