GE Vernova

Senior Control Protection System Application Engineer
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📅 Date Posted

Jan 26, 2025

💼 Job Type

CONTRACTOR

📍 Location

West Midlands

💵 Rate

Unknown

Description

As a Control & Protection Lead Engineer, you will be working with HVDC NPI to develop the controls solution based on eLumina platform reporting to the NPI/NTI Leader. The successful candidates require to mentor and lead other engineers to deliver project scope, drive consistent design practices keeping product mindset and provide technical solution to industrialize the product. This includes the following:
- Engineering process management
- Provide technical guidance.
- Provide design Guide.
- Drive consistent design practices and common global processes for projects.

Roles And Responsibilities
As a Control & Protection Lead Engineer, you will also play a key part in technically developing less experienced members of the team; this is a great opportunity to further your mentoring experience as there is scope for this role to build the team up further in the future.

Responsible for leading overall requirement, design, implementation, and development of the HVDC Control & Protection system; this includes the following activities:
- Requirement & Design Engineering Design Process & Review
- Reviewing and approving technical documents
- HVDC System in electromagnetic transient tools like PSCAD, EMTP-RV etc.
- Plant modelling in various simulation tools (MATLAB, PSCAD etc) and its verification.
- Control and protection parameters tuning to meet grid stability criteria specified in customer technical specifications.

Provide technical guidance that influences outcomes to other people, supporting moderate complexity projects and/or tasks. Play a key role in engineering design reviews and technical leadership; identifying potential project risks and technical weaknesses and proposing safe, reliable and compliant solutions.

Execute and provide guidance for the analysis/evaluation of assigned projects that meet NPI objectives.

Responsible for coaching and developing department talent.

Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.

May lead small projects with low risks and resource requirements.

Uses judgment to make decisions or solve moderately complex tasks or problems in areas of operational/product management, manufacturing, technology or engineering.

Takes new perspective on existing solutions.

Uses technical experience and expertise for data analysis to support recommendations.

Continuously improving the product in terms of delivery speed, stability, and reliability.

Required Qualifications
- Degree in Electronics/Electrical engineering or proven equivalent knowledge
and experience in HVDC business.
- Minimum of 12 years experience in control
and protection system design.
- Expertise in HVDC Control,
Protection
and Sequencing strategy.
- Expertise
in PSCAD
and MATLAB-SIMULINK simulation tools.
- Expertise
in HVDC Dynamic Performance Studies.
- Experienced
in technical leadership.
- Must be flexible with working hours
and willing
to travel
in order
to support projects globally.
- Ability
to understand
and communicate customer requirements,
ownership of technical discussions with customers,
and capable of developing client relationships.

Desired Characteristics
Strong oral
and written communication skills.
Strong interpersonal
and leadership skills.
Demonstrated ability
to analyze
and resolve problems.
Demonstrated ability
to lead programs/projects.
Ability
to document,
plan,
market,
and execute programs.
Established project management skills.Proven

technical leadership
in a complex system engineering development environment.Proactively serves on cross functional leadership teams; Makes decisions independently; Pulls

in experts when needed.


Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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