Senior Verification and Validation Engineer

GE Vernova, Inc.; Stafford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Vernova, Inc. seeks a Senior HVDC Product Specialist to drive verification and validation across engineering delivery, NPI, and product care. You will mentor teams and define testing strategies for HVDC control systems, ensuring quality before field deployment.

You will lead test plans, collaborate with grid and HVDC technology groups, and contribute to continuous improvement while representing the company in industry groups.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electronics / Electrical engineering or related field.
• Significant experience in power generation, systems design, and operation of control systems.
• Demonstrable technical leadership experience.
• Experience of HVDC control systems.
• Competent in HVDC control, protection and sequencing.
• Competent in PSCAD / MATLAB-SIMULINK and RTDS applications.
• Knowledge of test driven design techniques (CI / CI, unit testing, automated regression testing).
• Knowledge of Requirements Management and Change Control (e.g. CCB, Jira).
• Excellent communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and tactical direction for verification and validation of HVDC control and protection.
• Establish process to assess, review and record testing needs for each project.
• Lead the development of tests and commissioning tests at site.
• Develop and maintain Test Management Plans & Solutions.
• Coordinate HVDC testing and validation across Lab, Factory and Site testing.
• Maintain overview of project lifecycle to de-risk product development.
• Review skills and train engineers; act as approver for technical reviews.
• Support IP strategy and customer communications through project milestones.
• Represent in industry working groups as a content contributor.

Skills

Technical leadership

HVDC control systems

PSCAD / MATLAB-SIMULINK

RTDS applications

Change control / issue tracking

Education

Degree in Electronics / Electrical engineering

Tools

PSCAD / MATLAB-SIMULINK

RTDS

Jira

Job description

Job Description Summary

As a Senior HVDC Product Specialist, you will be working across the Engineering Delivery function, NPI, Control & Protection, and Product Care function reporting directly to the Head of Control and Protection Verification & Validation.

This role includes developing department talent, engineering process management, provide technical guidance, mentoring, drive consistent design practices and common global processes for projects implementation and provide technical solution that meets the needs of NPI, Product Care and Project Delivery.

Job Description

Essential 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.

Qualifications & Requirements

• 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 Circuit Diagram, field cabling protection relays, HV/MV/LV switchgear, IED’s 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.

Desired Characteristics

• Ability to understand and communicate customer requirements, ownership of technical discussions with customers and capable of developing client relationships.
• Advanced oral and written communication skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills.
• A significant ability to analyse and resolve problems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects.
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
• Established project management skills.
• Proactively serves on cross functional leadership teams; Makes decisions independently.
• Experience on tools like MATCAD, EMTP-RV, Digsilent etc will added advantage.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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