Lead Controls Engineer

AL8238 UK Grid Solutions Limited; Stafford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Vernova, Inc. in Stafford seeks a Lead Controls Engineer to design low voltage control schemes for power transformers within the Grid Solutions business.

You will prepare control schematics, specifications and cabinet layouts, and interface with relays, tap-changers, and SCADA systems. The role requires experience with LV switchgear schematics and transformer design knowledge; Autocad Electrical and WindChill experience are preferred.

Qualifications

• Electrical/Instrumentation/Controls engineer or related experience in power transformers.
• Experience with LV switchgear schematics and related automation.
• Knowledge of transformer design principles including windings, insulation and tank design.

Responsibilities

• Prepare control schematics, specifications and general arrangement drawings for transformer control cabinets.
• Select and specify components for ordering and manufacturing; review supplier drawings; perform FAT.
• Interface with relays, tap-changers and SCADA/central control system.
• Lead communication with customers, suppliers and internal departments.
• Ensure on-time delivery, right-first-time, and budget adherence.

Skills

Low Voltage Schematics

PLC programming

SCADA integration

Communication with stakeholders

Education

Electrical/Instrumentation/Controls engineering

Tools

Autocad Electrical

WindChill

Job description

Job Description Summary Become part of a winning team and help to deliver the Green Energy transition. GE - Renewable Energy would like to recruit a Lead Controls Engineer with expertise in designing low voltage control schemes for power transformers to work in our Grid Solutions business from our Stafford office.

Job Description Preparation of control schematics, specifications, general arrangement drawings, cable schedules for control cabinets (marshalling kioks) of power transformers, including interfacing with relays, tap-changers and other transformer components and SCADA / central control system.

Selection and specification of components for ordering and manufacturing, review of supplier drawings, carrying out Factory Acceptance Tests.

Key Performance Indicators of on-time delivery, right first time and budget adherence.

Experience in Low Voltage Switchgear schematics and related Automation. Experience of PLC programming / automation software will be preferred (not essential).

Leading communication/co-ordination with internal and external stakeholders (customers, suppliers, other departments such as projects, tendering, manufacturing, quality, procurement, etc).

Education And Experience: Electrical or Instrumentation or Controls or Mechanical engineer or person with similar experience (in Power Transformers).

Experience of working on Autocad Electrical.

Experience of Document management system (WindChill / equivalent).

Transformer design knowledge (especially transformer design calculations, active part design including lead exits, insulation, windings, nesting of coils and tank design).

Should have worked independently done control schematics and component specifications.

Shall be able to demonstrate GE Vernova Way (Innovation, Customers, Lean, One team, Accountable). Shall demonstrate focus on Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost.

Additional Information Relocation Assistance Provided: No 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. www.gevernova.com