GE Vernova
Lead Secondary Design Engineer
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Job Description Summary
The Lead Secondary Design Engineer will lead a geographically diverse team of designers, subcontractors, engineers, and project teams working on protection and control schematics and substation equipment. The role will offer a high-level overview of design and interface with various teams throughout the project cycle.
Job Description
The Lead Secondary Design Engineer is the technical guarantor of the proper performance of design works conditions in his/her field of activity, in matter of committed design budget (man days), deadline, and Quality, in line with Customer expectation, while promoting ease of installation, operation, and maintenance of the system. He/she plans basic and detailed design activities, manages & oversees detailed execution progress, coordinates delivery of required engineering documentation for procurement, manufacturing, and site erection associated with the concerned activity, based on Customer specifications and requirements, and internal standards.
Scope of Work & Time Schedule
- Establish, based on tender and contract analysis, and project strategy, the list of documents to produce for his/her field of activity.
- Evaluates with PEM or PM engineering workload and deliverables dates for the concerned package and commits to such budget in man days and in time delivery.
- Ensures on-time delivery of design, including Partner documents, to stakeholders with suitable quality.
- Anticipate and mitigate delivery issues and recommend changes.
- Lead & coordinate his/her design team.
- Manage and monitor detailed execution progress and short-term plan.
- Request from PEM or PM required technical coordination meetings with partners or key suppliers if & when appropriate, to synchronize respective designs.
- Manage design time spent in man-hours on relevant activities.
- Follows & implements project strategy.
- Highlights scope or design changes (data for claims, VO...).
- Informs PEM / PM of design issues all along project execution and propose a range of solutions for decision; follow solutions agreed up to resolution.
- Analyze customer technical requirements.
- Ensures compliance to customer requirements.
- Represents customer interests in the design decisions at PM request.
- Coordinate with Partners coordination regarding customer technical comments on their scope.
- Looks for cost optimization in all design phases and mainly during basic design.
- Ensures technical consistency of design area.
- Checks design subcontractor deliverables.
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Required Skills and Experience
- Relevant degree - electrical or mechanical, function of the field of activity involved.
- Good level of years engineering experience in the related activity/discipline, preferably in a project & EPC type environment in T&D, Power Gen, or Oil & Gas industry, or 2 to 4 Medium Set projects in a position of Lead Engineer.
- Experience of project technical management processes, preferably in a multi-disciplinary team’s context with multiple interfaces.
- Several experiences in managing externally subcontracted design work package of various sizes.
- Knowledge of Transmission or Distribution industry.
About GE Grid Solutions
At GE Grid Solutions, we are electrifying the world with advanced grid technologies. As leaders in the energy space, our goal is to accelerate the transition to a more energy-efficient grid to fulfill the needs of tomorrow. With a focus on growth and sustainability, GE Grid Solutions plays a pivotal role in integrating Renewables onto the grid to drive carbon neutrality. In Grid Solutions, we help enable the transition for a greener, more reliable grid. GE Grid Solutions has the most advanced and comprehensive product and solutions portfolio within the energy sector.
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Why We Come to Work
At GE Renewable Energy, our engineers are always up for the challenge - and we’re always driven to find the best solution. Our projects are unique and interesting, and you’ll need to bring a solution-focused, positive approach to each one to do your best. Surrounded by committed, loyal colleagues, if you can dare to bring your ingenuity and desire to make an impact, you’ll be exposed to game-changing, diverse projects that truly allow you to play your part in the energy transition.
What We Offer
- A key role in a dynamic, international working environment with a large degree of flexibility of work agreements.
- Competitive benefits, and great development opportunities - including private health insurance.
Additional Information
- Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority, and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our singular mission at GE Vernova: continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to help decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.
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