Senior Control & Protection System Application Engineer

GE Vernova; Dadri; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

GE Vernova in India seeks a Senior Control & Protection Engineer to lead HVDC control and protection design for global projects.

You will mentor junior engineers, manage design reviews, and ensure technical solutions meet project goals and tender objectives. The role spans multiple engineering disciplines and involves guiding processes and customer interactions for reliable, high-performance systems.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 years’ experience in control and protection system design.
• Expertise in PSCAD and MATLAB-SIMULINK simulation tools.
• Willing to travel to support global projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead overall requirement, design, implementation and development of the HVDC control & protection system.
• Mentor less experienced team members and build department capability.
• Lead engineering design reviews and identify project risks with safe, reliable solutions.
• Interface with customers and provide training as needed.
• Perform dynamic performance studies and simulations to verify designs.

Skills

HVDC control

Protection & sequencing

Technical leadership

Customer requirements understanding

Education

Degree in Electronics/Electrical engineering

Tools

PSCAD

MATLAB-SIMULINK

Job description

Job Description Summary

As a Senior Control& Protection Engineer, you will be working across two engineering disciplines, Solution, and engineering centre (NPI, ITO, OTR and Product Care) in all aspects of HVDC Control & Protection system, reporting to the Head of Control & Protection Engineering. This role includes developing department talent and Engineering process management, provide technical guidance, mentoring, drive consistent design practices, common global processes for projects implementation and provide technical solution that meets the NPI, project delivery and Tender objectives.

• Developing organizational talent
• Engineering process management
• Provide technical guidance.
• Provide design Guide .
• Drive consistent design practices and common global processes for projects.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

As a Senior Control & Protection Engineer, you will also play a key part in technically developing less experienced members of the team, this is a great opportunity to further your mentoring experience as there is scope for this role to build the team up further in the future.

. Responsible for leading overall requirement, design, implementation, and development of the HVDC Control & Protection system, this includes the following actives:

• Requirement & Design
• Engineering Design Process & Review
• Reviewing and approving technical documents
• Customer interface and training
• HVDC System in electromagnetic transient tools like PSCAD, EMTP-RV etc.
• Plant modelling in various simulation tools (MATLAB, PSCAD etc) and its verification.
• Dynamic Performance Studies (DPS) and other design studies using both offline and online simulation tools.
• Control and protection parameters tuning to meet grid stability criteria specified in customer technical specifications.

• Support the business’ Tendering, Operations, Contractual and After Sales needs.
• Provide technical guidance that influences outcomes to other people, supporting moderate complexity projects and/or tasks.
• Play a key role in engineering design reviews and technical leadership, identifying potential project risks and technical weaknesses and proposing safe, reliable and compliant solutions.
• Execute and provide guidance for the analysis / evaluation of assigned projects that meet business standards, practices and procedures and the product / program requirements
• Responsible for coaching and developing department talent.
• Will be responsible in defining strategies and roadmap for development of New Engineers in the department. Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May lead small projects with low risks and resource requirements. Explains information; developing skills to bring team members to consensus around topics within field. Conveys performance expectations and may handle sensitive issues.
• Uses judgment to make decisions or solve moderately complex tasks or problems in areas of operational/product management, manufacturing, technology or engineering. Takes new perspective on existing solutions. Uses technical experience and expertise for data analysis to support recommendations.
• Continuously improving the product in terms of delivery speed, stability and reliability

Required Qualifications

• Degree in Electronics/Electrical engineering or proven equivalent knowledge and experience in HVDC business
• Minimum of 12 years’ experience in control and protection system design
• Expertise in HVDC Control, Protection and Sequencing strategy
• Expertise in PSCAD and MATLAB-SIMULINK simulation tools
• Expertise in HVDC Dynamic Performance Studies
• Experienced in technical leadership.
• Must be flexible with working hours and willing to travel in order to support projects global
• Ability to understand and communicate customer requirements, ownership of technical discussions with customers and capable of developing client relationships.

Desired Characteristics

• Strong oral and written communication skills. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems. Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs. Established project management skills.
• Proven technical leadership in a complex system engineering development environment.
• Proactively serves on cross functional leadership teams; Makes decisions independently; Pulls in experts when needed.

Additional Information

• Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes