Global HVDC Verification & Validation Manager

Overview

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Job Description Summary: Become part of a winning team and help to deliver the Green Energy transition.

As a Global HVDC Verification and Validation Manager, you will be responsible for leading a small team of product specialists that work across the Engineering Delivery function, NPI and Product Care, reporting to the Head of the Control and Protection function, the Verification & Validation Engineering Leader. This role includes developing department talent, engineering process management, providing technical guidance, mentoring, driving consistent design practices, tools and common global processes for project implementation, and providing technical solutions that meet the needs of NPI, Product Care and Project Delivery in HVDC Verification and Validation. This would be ideal for someone with experience in leading small teams or projects within the HVDC design space looking to step up into a more senior position. Additionally, you will harmonise processes, lessons learned, design guides, tools and good practices globally.

Job Description

• Providing strategic and tactical direction for Verification and Validation of HVDC Control and Protection System in collaboration with Grid and HVDC technology groups.
• Establishing processes to assess, review and record testing needs and boundaries of each project to ensure verification to the maximum extent before factory release.
• Leading the generation of standard plans, procedures and specifications for Integration System Tests, Full System Tests, and Factory Acceptance Tests.
• Maintaining and preparing standard Test Management Plans & Solutions.
• Involved from the requirements phase, ensuring standard requirements are SMART and testable.
• Coordinating HVDC testing and validation steps from Lab Testing, Factory System Testing and Site System Testing leading to Customer acceptance of HVDC Control & Protection System.
• Maintaining an overview of HVDC NTI-NPI-Project lifecycles to de-risk product development by clearly defining testing needs to validate requirements.
• Driving Continuous Improvement in collaboration with other HVDC Control & Protection Engineering teams in verification and validation.
• Enforcing engineering discipline and processes across tasks and adherence to policies, quality procedures and work instructions (e.g., through training, technical reviews).
• Reviewing the validation and verification department’s skills, identifying gaps to ensure training, guidance and mentoring of engineers.
• Serving as approver for technical reviews and quality gates / project milestones.
• Supporting the New Technology IP strategy to identify opportunities for new IP development.
• Representing in industry working groups as a key content contributor.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Degree in Electronics / Electrical engineering or related field.
• Significant experience in power generation, systems design, development and operation of Control Systems.
• Demonstrable Technical Leadership skills.
• Knowledge of Verification & Validation of HVDC Control Systems.
• Competent in HVDC Control, Protection and Sequencing strategy.
• Competent in RTDS applications.
• Proven technical leadership in a complex system engineering development environment.
• Knowledge of Test-Driven Design techniques (e.g., CI / Continuous Integration, Unit Testing, Automated Regression testing).
• Knowledge of Requirements Management.
• Knowledge of Change Control and issue tracking (e.g., CCB, Jira).
• Excellent communication skills with fluency in English.

Desired Characteristics

• Advanced oral and written communication skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills.
• A significant ability to analyse and resolve problems.
• Proactively serves on cross functional leadership teams; makes decisions independently.
• Experience with tools like MATCAD, EMTP-RV, Digsilent etc. is an added advantage.

About Us

GE Vernova is a world leader in the energy solutions market with a portfolio of energy businesses across the globe. Grid Solutions provides equipment, systems, and services to bring power reliably and efficiently from generation to end power consumers. We electrify the world with advanced grid technologies and accelerate the energy transition.

Why We Come To Work

At GE Grid Solutions our engineers are challenged and focused on delivering solutions. You’ll work on diverse projects with a solution-focused approach and a collaborative environment.

What We Offer

A key role in a dynamic, international working environment with flexibility of work arrangements. Competitive benefits, and good development opportunities, including private health insurance.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Quality Assurance

Industries

• Electric Power Generation

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