GE Vernova
Consulting Engineer - HVDC Controls & Protection Algorithms
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Job Description Summary
The energy transition drives an unprecedented growth in demand for and generation of electricity. To accommodate this growth, the capacity of the transmission system is projected to grow three-fold. High voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission systems will play a key role in connecting remote and offshore renewables, interconnecting energy markets, and reinforcing AC grids. Converter stations are required to convert AC to DC and vice versa. The brain of such converter stations are the control and protection systems which, among other things, ensure efficient, safe, and reliable operation of the power electronic valves and peripheral equipment. GE Vernova’s Grid Systems Integration business line offers control and protection solutions for both voltage sourced converter (VSC) as well as line commutated converter (LCC) HVDC valve technologies to meet the transmission planning needs of utilities, system operators, developers, and industrial clients worldwide. The control & protection algorithms are key to enabling the HVDC transmission systems’ functionality, capabilities, and performance.
GE Vernova’s CTO office is tasked with developing the R&D roadmap for HVDC control & protection algorithms, managing competencies within the company, and supporting projects with specialized technical support. Consulting Engineers, who sit in the CTO team, are the highest technical authority within GE Vernova's Grid Systems Integration and Cross Electrification business. They act as executive technical consultants, ensuring customer confidence, reviewing and enhancing design practices, acting as a gatekeeper for technical reviews, applying lessons learned, leading complex, state-of-the-art technology improvements, engaging with quality reviews and cost optimization exercises both within their specialist domain and across other domains.
GE Vernova is currently looking for an experienced technical specialist to join us as Consulting Engineer for HVDC control & protection algorithms.
Job Description
Essential Responsibilities
Consulting Engineers are highly sought after within the GE Vernova business to provide expertise on challenging problems and to facilitate interfaces with adjacent technical domains. They are likely to have a number of publications, including conference papers, and patents. These professionals lead major technical initiatives, advocate for technological advancement, chair design reviews, mentor Principal Engineers and senior engineers, and benchmark their technology domain. They define the need for new design practices, author and review design standards, ensure lessons learned are documented and disseminated, and deliver effective technical presentations to upper management and external parties.
Consulting Engineers lead R&D and product enhancement projects with broad scope and significant impact on the business, acting as recognized experts in specific fields. They are tasked with major and complex assignments that bear long-term business implications, contributing to overall strategy and navigating complex issues within their area of expertise.
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Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a recognized technical authority in HVDC control & protection algorithms solutions both internally and externally, and act as technical advisor to senior leadership levels.
- Actively contribute to and drive both internal and external standardization, coordinate working group activities, and proactively represent GE Vernova in IEC/CIGRE and similar professional bodies, task forces, and industry committees.
- Stay abreast of, collect, and internally communicate state-of-the-art technology developments in HVDC control & protection platform algorithms and applications.
- Gather external information to determine future market needs.
- Work with external parties to identify new requirements, products, and solutions.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop and maintain a strategic HVDC control & protection algorithms technology roadmap.
- Suggest areas for technological advancement and recommend approaches/programs to pursue.
- Evaluating and championing innovative ideas.
- Contribute to Intellectual Property management in terms of:
- The creation of patents.
- Participating in patent evaluation board.
- The review of patents to ensure freedom to operate.
- Mentor other engineers in the patenting process.
- Oversee various R&D programmes from conception through to industrialization, integrating new technology smoothly into production and ensuring successful project delivery.
- Chair and act as technical authority in technology and product development gate reviews.
- Collaborate and promote technology synergies across GE Vernova businesses of Power Conversion Systems, Grid Automation, and Power Technology, utilizing shared expertise and resources.
- Support the commercial teams with their technical business development and sales.
- Support supply chain and procurement departments with technical expertise.
- Lead/support study teams addressing identified project challenges in focused technical areas.
- Lead/support the development of technical proposals to collaborate on the development of new technologies, functions, and applications sponsored by external funding bodies.
- Support project technical tendering and delivery in the introduction of new solutions.
- Support the quality teams on major quality issues and act as technical authority in root cause analysis processes.
- Act as technical authority in competence management.
- Identify and recommend improvements in specific discipline knowledge or technical training needs.
- Contribute to creating structured training plans and associated training material.
- Delivering training.
- Mentor others to deliver training.
- Act as technical authority in competence assessments of senior and principal engineers.
- Lead/support the creation and presentation of conference papers and act as a validator to ensure that papers prepared by others are relevant, correct, and of a high standard.
- Act as a knowledge ambassador, providing technical education to external universities.
- Consult with and support the Chief Engineer’s Office in executing the office’s technical objectives to implement best practice technologies and methods.
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Qualifications/Requirements
The position requires a deep technical understanding of the technologies and design techniques required to develop, manufacture, and maintain, high availability, real-time, flexible control systems.
The successful candidate will deeply understand the intricacies of communication and computing platform technologies and techniques, and how to translate this into an effective value proposition to GE Vernova’s customers. This requires a strong foundation in both research and development and project engineering, having demonstrated significant technical depth and recognition as a domain expert across large-scale, high reliability, high-performance real-time control systems, and able to apply state-of-the-art technology to resolve complex technical challenges.
- Masters degree or higher education equivalent in a topic related to the development of control solutions, ideally with an application focus to power electronic systems.
- Proven experience in an engineering capacity, additional R&D funding.
- Excellent overall technical understanding of VSC-HVDC with deep understanding of the topics identified below:
- Control algorithm principles and high-level control system functional definition.
- Control algorithm implementation.
- Control software architecture.
- Harmonic stability.
- Interaction studies.
- Multi-terminal system control.
- Grid forming control.
- Multi-vendor control interoperability.
- Control system performance verification & validation.
- Understanding of LCC-HVDC control principles is not necessary but considered an advantage.
- Familiarity with patent evaluation, application, and management.
- Open to regular business travel.
Desired Characteristics
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Leadership to pursue the correct engineering process in adverse conditions.
- Able to interface and communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.
- Considered an industry expert and thought leader in the HVDC control & protection algorithms discipline.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
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