Operability Controls Quality Engineer for Wind Turbines
A01098 GE Vernova International LLC
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Job summary
GE Vernova seeks an experienced Controls Quality Engineer - Operability to enhance testing, reliability, and quality of wind turbine controls algorithms. The role focuses on validating features that mitigate load, detect turbine anomalies through field feedback, and optimize performance with advanced controls strategies.
The successful candidate will partner with Controls Development to ensure field observations inform validation plans, defect prevention, and future product development, driving
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or science.
- Minimum 5 years of controls engineering experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support RCA and PAC investigations involving turbine operability and controls behavior.
- Analyze fleet operational data to identify emerging risks, performance opportunities, and defect trends.
- Evaluate control algorithms related to load mitigation, anomaly detection, and performance optimization.
- Drive improvements to validation strategies that verify operational behavior under representative field conditions.
- Identify defect escape pathways and implement preventive quality improvements.
- Support development of testing methodologies that improve detection of operability-related defects.
- Partner with Controls Development teams to strengthen requirements and validation coverage.
- Collaborate with Fleet Performance Management to understand field performance trends and customer impacts.
- Evaluate availability, downtime, forced outages, nuisance trips, alarm frequency, restart performance, and customer escalations to identify quality improvement opportunities.
- Translate field learnings into engineering recommendations and validation improvements.
- Support release readiness reviews through independent quality assessment of operability risks.
- Apply Lean methodologies and data-driven decision making to improve product quality and operational performance.
- Leverage AI-enabled analytics to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for continuous improvement.
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Job description
GE Vernova seeks an experienced Controls Quality Engineer - Operability to enhance testing, reliability, and quality of wind turbine controls algorithms. The role focuses on validating features that mitigate load, detect turbine anomalies through field feedback, and optimize performance with advanced controls strategies.
The successful candidate will partner with Controls Development to ensure field observations inform validation plans, defect prevention, and future product development, driving
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