Engineer - Turbine Operability

RE1055 GE Renewable Energy Technologies Private Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation Assistance Provided

Job summary

GE Renewable Energy Technologies Private Limited in Bengaluru, India seeks an Operability Engineer to tune turbine control algorithms and ensure high availability across products. You will collaborate with sub-systems and cross‑functional teams to validate designs from concept to validation, addressing fleet issues and optimizing performance.

The role requires a Master’s in Controls or related field, strong knowledge of control theory, and excellent English communication.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant engineering discipline with specialization in Controls.
• Familiarity with controls theory: system modelling, closed‑loop design, and analysis.
• Knowledge in wind turbine controls tuning and optimization.
• Excellent English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Progress the operability risks during NPI and ensure closed‑loop stability and availability.
• Perform controller tuning and operability assessments with cross‑functional teams.
• Support fleet issue resolution and root cause analysis for wind turbines.
• Adopt new controller features and tailor algorithms to turbine needs.

Skills

Wind turbine controls tuning

System modelling

Closed-loop design

Python/ MATLAB basics

Education

Master’s degree in Controls/Aerospace/Electrical Engineering

Tools

Simpack

Flex5

MATLAB

Python

Job description

Job Description Summary

Tuning and Operations team is devoted to wind turbine systems modeling and operability tuning for product development and fleet support, with a strong focus on product optimization. The vision of the Tuning and Operations team is to create customer value by delivering products with highest availability by minimizing risks from turbine operability related aspects and deliver quick return to service by timely and effective resolution of fleet issues. The role of the Operability engineer includes enabling wind turbine optimization via appropriate control tuning of core operational and supervisory turbine control algorithms. This should result in wind turbine products capable of meeting targets on availability, high performance, levelized cost of energy (LCOE) as well as compliance with specific market segment regulations in terms of noise, grid code, etc.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Progressive retirement of operability related engineering risks as part of the different phases of a new product introduction (NPI) cycle, ensuring turbine operation displays adequate levels of closed-loop stability, availability, robustness, and compliance to market-specific requirements such as grid codes, noise, cold weather, etc.
• Perform controller tuning and operability assessments, collaborate with other sub-system and cross-functional teams for delivering on new products with high quality, from conceptual design to product validation stage; Project specific assessments to support new unit sales in ITO phase or project execution in OTR phase; Fleet issue resolution and root case analysis projects.
• Enable the realization of system level tradeoffs (Energy production v/s Loads, etc.) via application of controls technologies/solutions, to minimize turbine cost while pushing envelope on turbine performance and availability.
• Adopt new controller features and algorithms developed by the Controls organization as well as the ability to tune them to meet specific wind turbine systems trade-offs.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree from an accredited university in Controls Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related disciplines with specialization in Controls.
• Familiarity with aspects of controls theory such as system modelling, closed-loop design, and closed-loop analysis.
• Knowledge in wind turbine controls tuning and optimization.
• Strong oral and written communication skills in English.

Desired Characteristics

• Knowledge of high-fidelity multibody simulation (MBS) software for aeroelastic simulations (Simpack, Flex5, Bladed, Hawc2, Adams, etc.).
• Some years of aeroelastic simulation experience applied to wind turbines.
• Experience in controller code development for wind turbines.
• Wind turbine system design experience.
• Basic proficiency in Matlab/Python programming, as well as GitHub version control.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills, including ability and willingness to work across cultural boundaries in a global team.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes

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