Senior HVDC Verification & Validation Lead

gevernova; Stafford; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Private health insurance

International work environment

Job summary

GE Grid Solutions in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior HVDC Product Specialist to lead Verification and Validation across engineering delivery, NPI, and protection domains. You will mentor teams and drive global processes for HVDC projects.

Responsibilities include developing test plans, coordinating lab, factory, and site tests, and ensuring SMART requirements. You will influence product plans and participate in industry groups.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electronics / Electrical engineering or related field.
• Significant and demonstrated years of experience in power generation, systems design, development and operation of Control System.
• Demonstrable Technical Leadership experience.
• Experience of HVDC Control Systems.
• Competent in HVDC Control, Protection and Sequencing strategy.
• Competent in PSCAD / MATLAB-SIMULINK and RTDS applications.
• Competent in HVDC Dynamic Performance Studies.
• Proven technical leadership in a complex system engineering development environment.
• Knowledge of Control and Protection cubicle diagrams, field cabling protection relays, HV/MV/LV switchgear, IEDs and Distributed control system.
• 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 a fluency in English language.

Responsibilities

• Providing strategic and tactical direction for Verification and Validation of HVDC Control and Protection System in collaboration with Grid and HVDC technology groups.
• Responsible for establishing process to assess, review and record the testing needs and boundaries of each project to ensure that the control system is verified to the maximum extent possible before leaving the factory.
• Leading the generation of plans, procedures and specifications for the Development of Integration System Tests, Full System Tests, and Factory Acceptance Tests and Commissioning Tests at site.
• Accountable for developing, maintaining and Preparing Test Management Plans & Solutions.
• Involved from the requirements phase, ensuring requirements are SMART and testable.
• Ensure the coordination of HVDC testing and validation process steps from Lab Testing, Factory System Testing and Site System testing leading to the Customer acceptance of HVDC Control & Protection System.
• Maintain a clear overview of the HVDC NTI-NPI-Project life cycles thereby de-risking the product development by clearly defining the testing needs to validate the requirements.
• Responsible for technical validation of processes and test specifications.
• Drive the Continuous Improvement process in in collaboration with other HVDC Control & Protection Engineering teams.
• Ensure sufficient de-risking is included in Product plans, such that quality problems due to the introduction of new technologies are avoided when the new technologies are deployed on Projects.
• The Enforcement of engineering discipline and set processes across all work tasks and adherence to company policies, quality procedures and work instructions (e.g. through training, technical reviews).
• Reviewing the validation and verification department’s skills, identifying any shortfalls or skills gaps to ensure the necessary training, guidance and mentoring of Engineers is in place.
• Serve as approver for technical reviews and quality gates / project milestones.
• Support the New Technology IP strategy to identify opportunities for new IP development.
• Supports Customer communications to define quality and testing expectation from the project kick-off till final sign off.
• Represent in various Industry working groups as a key content contributor.

Skills

HVDC Control Systems

Technical Leadership

Power Generation

Requirements Management

Test Driven Design

Change Control / Jira

English Communication

CI / Continuous Integration

Education

Degree in Electronics / Electrical engineering or related field

Tools

MATCAD

EMTP-RV

Digsilent

PSCAD / MATLAB-SIMULINK

Job description

GE Grid Solutions in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior HVDC Product Specialist to lead Verification and Validation across engineering delivery, NPI, and protection domains. You will mentor teams and drive global processes for HVDC projects.

Responsibilities include developing test plans, coordinating lab, factory, and site tests, and ensuring SMART requirements. You will influence product plans and participate in industry groups.