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The Role
Lead system studies for HVDC projects including insulation coordination, EMT and RMS network studies, reliability/availability and loss calculations. Specify high-value bought-out equipment, develop/industrialize study tools and processes, improve designs and processes, mentor engineers, and represent the business externally.
Summary Generated by Built In
Job Description SummaryThis role is designed to interpret the customer’s technical enquiry and to design the most cost-effective overall solution for an HVDC installation utilizing the PES power electronics solutions, aiming to minimize the total cost, and to specify the main (high-value) items of bought-out equipment. The successful candidate will be involved in the development and industrialization of solutions tools and processes. The successful candidate will have proven professional experience and technical expertise in the field of power system engineering.Job Description
Essential Responsibilities
- Insulation Coordination Studies: Determination (by simulation) of temporary and transient overvoltage stress on equipment and surge arrester energy ratings.
- Network studies for the confirmation of the correct interaction between the equipment, its control system and the rest of the network.
- Reliability and Availability Studies: Creation of overall reliability and availability models for projects and reporting to the client.
- Losses: Calculation of overall project losses and reporting to the client.
- Provide guidance and coordinate the engineering tasks to meet the project/tender requirement.
- Technical responsibility in areas of expertise
- Development and Industrialization: Develop and industrialize solutions tools and processes associated with the engineering activities identified above.
- Be actively involved in new developments in HVDC technologies, implementing control and protection solutions and creating / delivering new analysis techniques and system study tools in order to provide optimized system study solutions.
- Process Improvement: Review and record design processes and develop new or improved processes.
- Enforce engineering discipline and set processes across all work tasks and adherence to company policies, quality procedures and work instructions (e.g. through trainings, technical reviews).
- Representing the business in external events by publishing technical papers
- Apply to improve your technical knowledge base and keep abreast of relevant methodologies and technological advancement within the Company.
- Support and mentor other engineers to increase the team’s technical knowledge and competence
- Values: Comply with the GE Values Charter
- Report or resolve any non-conformances in a timely manner.
- Identify and evaluate EHS risks in the team area and implement practical measures.
- Set the example by demonstrating the proper acts and actively observe work conditions and behaviors, giving constructive feedback and celebrating EHS effective prevention.
- Actively participate in defining corrective actions when work is unsafe or when an uncontrolled risk is observed.
- Routinely observe routines and behaviors of others and provide immediate feedback regarding unsafe behavior and celebrates achievements or safe behaviors.
- Actively and routinely promote the identification of hazards and near misses to their team/s.
- Managed cross-functional collaboration with internal and external interfaces.
Qualifications / Requirements
- Educated with an Engineering degree (or equivalent) including power systems and power electronics subjects (minimum 2:1) with proven professional experience and technical expertise in the field of power system engineering and preferably in HVDC System Design.
- Conversant with system tools like PSCAD, PSS/E, DigSilent, RTDS, MATLAB, FORTRAN, Python and Isograph etc.
- RMS System studies such as load-flow, short circuit and stability (both the network and harmonics).
- EMT System studies such as transient overvoltages, TRV, Ferro resonance, ZMP etc.
- Insulation co-ordination and main equipment characteristics for HVDC
- An expertise in the use of computer mathematical and simulation tools as applied to the design of the aforementioned activities
- Power Quality Studies and mitigation measures of issues
- A general understanding of the characteristics of HVDC Valves and their control systems.
- Presentation ability
Desired additional skills
- Filter Design: Design of AC, DC, high Frequency harmonic filters and screening. Calculations of filter performance and rating. Creation of project-specific equipment specifications for filter reactors/capacitors/resistors.
- Equipment Specification: Creation of project-specific, high economic value, equipment specifications for equipment such as power transformers, instrument transformers, reactors, capacitors, surge arresters etc.
- EMC, RFI and PLC interference subject area knowledge – studies and mitigation measures
- Earthing and bonding studies
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
Skills Required
- Engineering degree with power systems and power electronics subjects (minimum 2:1)
- Proven professional experience and technical expertise in power system engineering, preferably HVDC system design
- Conversant with system tools: PSCAD, PSS/E, DigSilent, RTDS, MATLAB, FORTRAN, Python, Isograph
- RMS system studies: load-flow, short circuit and stability (including harmonics)
- EMT system studies: transient overvoltages, TRV, ferroresonance, ZMP
- Insulation coordination and knowledge of main HVDC equipment characteristics
- Expertise in computer mathematical and simulation tools applied to system design
- Power quality studies and mitigation measures
- General understanding of HVDC valves and their control systems
- Presentation ability
- Filter design (AC/DC/high-frequency filters) and filter equipment specification
- Creation of project-specific high-value equipment specifications (transformers, reactors, capacitors, surge arresters)
- EMC, RFI and PLC interference knowledge and mitigation measures
- Earthing and bonding studies
GE Vernova Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GE Vernova and has not been reviewed or approved by GE Vernova.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) plan includes company matching contributions and additional company retirement contributions, with access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Feedback suggests this structure supports long-term savings beyond a basic match.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is available with flexible, continuous or non-continuous usage, and is complemented by adoption resources and Work/Life Connections guidance. Maternity leave is described as extended relative to typical workplace norms.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off programs include 12 paid holidays, permissive time off for many salaried roles, and dedicated personal, illness, and caregiving time for U.S. new hires. Some hourly roles start with a defined PTO bank, while other roles may offer unlimited time off.
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The Company
What We Do
GE Vernova is a planned purpose-built company on a mission to electrify the planet while simultaneously working to 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. GE Vernova brings together GE’s portfolio of energy businesses including Power, Wind, Electrification and Digital businesses. With focus, GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.
Why Work With Us
Join our team, to evolve and grow, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the industry who help you get better every day. You’ll get the chance to rewrite the rules, work on cutting-edge technology, and be part of a global team for positive change.
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