Lead Power Systems & Test Engineer Job Coventry area,England UK,Engineering

Job Description Summary Job Description

Do you want to provide electrical leadership at one of the world’s most unique, large-scale power and propulsion testing facilities?

GE Vernova is looking for an exceptional
Lead Power Systems & Test Engineer
to join our
Electrification
team based in
Whetstone, UK
.

GE Vernova - The Energy to Change the World

With over 130 years of experience and proven innovation, GE Vernova is leading a new era of energy. We are electrifying the world while working to decarbonize it. Our name reflects our mission. “GE” carries a legacy of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” signals Earth’s lush ecosystems, while “Nova” nods to a new era of lower-carbon energy we are helping to deliver.

Focused on the future, GE Vernova is accelerating the shift to reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy. We help customers power economies and deliver electricity vital to health, safety, and quality of life.

Electrification

Our Electrification solutions modernize grids, enable renewable integration, and strengthen energy systems. From software to power conversion and storage, we help create smarter, more resilient energy networks.

GE’s Power Conversion & Storage business, part of GE Vernova, provides electrification systems that are critical to customers’ power and energy needs for their high-performance applications. We work with some of the world’s major energy, maritime and industrial organizations, helping to enable a transition to energy efficiency and decarbonization, including through our specialist motors, drives and control technologies.

Let’s Talk about the Role

As
Lead Power Systems & Test Engineer
, you provide electrical leadership for the Marine Power Test Facility, balancing the maintenance of existing infrastructure with the installation, commissioning, and testing of new power systems and equipment.

Reporting directly to the Marine Power Test & Trials Manager. You will be a key member of the Marine Power Test Facility, engineering test and commissioning team.

You act as a key member of the engineering, test, and commissioning team, ensuring that all work meets the highest standards of safety, quality, and regulatory compliance. You manage safe systems of work as a Senior Authorised Person (SAP), coordinate complex site activities, and collaborate with leadership to drive process and system improvements that ensure our world-class facility remains at the cutting edge of power and propulsion technology.

How

You Will Make a Difference

To be competent and have a proven record of HV/LV plant and systems commissioning.
To carry out switching operations
and the operation of permit to work, sanction to test and access limitation systems on large projects.
Be competent to produce, and maintain, documentation
to the required standards.
Undertake installation and commissioning of cabling, switchboards, circuit breakers, contractors, transformers, UPS systems, generators and motors, power conversion / converters
ensuring the overall installation, commissioning and test meets internal standards customer, and all regulatory / safety requirements.
Manage the upkeep and maintenance requirements
of the facility and specific systems and equipment.
To produce as commissioned, tested and maintenance documentation
in accordance with independently audited Company Quality and Safety Management Systems e.g. BS EN 18001 and Classification Societies e.g. Lloyds Register and DNV.
Supervise test, trials and control room operations
in line with approved procedures and safe working practices.
Establish and manage design documentation and drawings control
as necessary.
Working with site leadership and EHS, manage safe systems of work, risk assessments and method statements
associated with electrical work and testing.
Comply with…