Senior Technical Consultant

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This position reports to:

Service Manager

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Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead consulting assignments. Each day, you will contribute to the development of consultancy products and services. You will also showcase your expertise by participating in the creation of consulting business strategy.

The work model for the role is: onsite/hybrid #LI-hybrid #LI-onsite

This role is contributing to the Energy Industries division in Switzerland.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Leading the proposal of consulting services or solutions to meet customer needs, negotiating contracts to secure consulting assignments, and managing multiple projects while meeting strict deadlines.
• Participating in customer discussions, preparing technical proposals, conducting techno‑commercial negotiations, facilitating co‑creation workshops, and providing technical guidance to customers, utilities, and OEM teams.
• Developing strong relationships with key technical contacts and actively maintaining an ongoing technical knowledge exchange to support collaboration.
• Executing, supervising, and supporting onsite or remote commissioning, optimization, testing, and analysis of excitation systems with a focus on power system stability and grid code compliance requirements, while producing high‑quality technical documentation and reports.

Qualifications for the role

• You hold a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, or a related field; a PhD is considered an asset.
• You have 5-10 years of experience in power system analysis, grid integration studies, and dynamic simulation.
• You bring a strong background in synchronous machines and excitation systems, including expertise in AVR/PSS modelling and grid compliance (highly desirable).
• You are proficient in at least two simulation tools such as PSS/E, PSCAD/EMTDC, DIgSILENT PowerFactory and in using Python for simulation scripting and data processing.
• You have demonstrated experience conducting transient stability studies, electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulations, fault ride‑through (FRT) assessments, harmonic and RMS dynamic performance analyses, and eigenvalue analysis.
• You are fluent in English and ideally German, and you communicate technical concepts clearly and effectively to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

More about us
Energy Industries division is enabling safe, smart, and sustainable projects and operations for businesses across the oil, gas, chemicals, life sciences, power generation, and water sectors. Driving integrated solutions that automate, digitalize, and electrify operations across industries. The division strives to connect our people and technology capabilities, along with our robust global execution capacity and widespread service footprint to help customers adapt and succeed. With over 50 years of domain expertise, we continue to innovate and reshape traditional approaches across the energy sector with our technologies, that are designed to improve operational efficiency, reduce risk, decrease energy consumption and waste.

We look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). The recruiting process is being led by Azra Filan, Talent Partner at ABB Switzerland Ltd.

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