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About Air Products

Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company, established in 1940, with a history of innovation, operational excellence, and a commitment to safety and environmental stewardship. The company focuses on reimagining possibilities by leveraging collective experience to create solutions that drive progress and contribute to a cleaner future for customers, communities, and the world.

The Role: Grid Compliance Manager

Air Products is seeking a Grid Compliance Manager to join its team in Duba, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position requires 5-10 years of relevant experience and is central to ensuring that large-scale production facilities adhere to all applicable grid codes and regulatory requirements. The manager will lead the strategy and execution of grid compliance initiatives, acting as a key technical interface with utilities and regulators.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the overall Grid Code Compliance Strategy and maintain the compliance roadmap.
• Ensure adherence to Saudi Arabian Grid Code, TRCG requirements, utility connection agreements, and transmission regulations.
• Establish compliance milestones, monitor execution, and provide clear reporting on status, risks, and approval progress.
• 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 coordinate the closure of regulator comments and technical queries.
• Manage the approval process for technical reports, study packages, and supporting documentation.

Technical Studies and Coordination

• Lead and coordinate dynamic studies, including DMAT, dynamic impact studies, model benchmarking, voltage stability, and frequency stability.
• Lead and coordinate static studies, such as 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.
• Coordinate technical activities across various vendor teams (solar, wind, BESS, electrolyser, STATCOM, EPC, study consultant, protection vendor).
• Obtain and track validated PSS/E, PSCAD, DIgSILENT, and RTDS models, ensuring consistency across models and site-installed systems.
• Lead Real-Time Digital Simulation compliance activities and model benchmarking, including hardware-in-the-loop and controller testing.
• Ensure compliance of active power control, voltage control, Fast Generation Shedding, Fast Load Shedding, protection schemes, and plant controller functions.

Risk Management and Operational Support

• 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, escalate unresolved risks with clear impact statements, and maintain a Grid Compliance Risk Register and action tracker.
• 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, participating in start-up readiness reviews and operational handover activities.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for the Grid Compliance Manager position should possess 5-10 years of experience in a related field. The role requires a strong technical background in grid code compliance, power system studies (dynamic and static), power quality, and real-time digital simulation. Demonstrated experience in coordinating with utilities, regulators, OEMs, and contractors is essential, along with proven abilities in risk management and supporting commissioning activities for complex industrial projects.