Sr Engineer, Automation & BOP

The Voith Group is a global technology company. With its broad portfolio of systems, products, services and digital applications, Voith sets standards in the markets of energy, paper, raw materials and transport & automotive. Founded in 1867, the company today has around 20,700 employees, sales of € 4,8 billion and locations in over 60 countries worldwide and is thus one of the larger family-owned companies in Europe.

Voith Hydro is hiring for:

This is a senior technical engineering position within the Automation & Balance of Plant (BOP) team for the regional operating unit within a worldwide group of companies. The position mission is total customer satisfaction and successful execution of projects delivering engineered products installed in hydroelectric power plants, as reliable, timely delivered, cost effective, safe and to engineered commitments. The incumbent is a Lead Engineer for specialized areas of power plant engineered reliability from project technical strategy, equipment design, project design plan, and delivery and installation of power unit components related to Automation and BOP systems.

• Assists in assuring that departmental and integrated engineering standards are strictly followed and executed with excellence. Key engineering processes such as design strategies, reviews, design freezes and lesson learned, etc. are highly effective, completely fulfill purpose and requirements and are effective.
• Lead and supervise technical product solutions and customer product decisions or problem resolutions to the satisfaction of both company and customer requirements. Key spokesperson for the organization internally and externally for effectively presenting critical and otherwise technical matters.
• Coordinate an engineering team to perform engineering optimizations with an integrated approach through electrical and mechanical studies to provide innovative designs on modernization or new projects, with higher efficiency machines, uprate power output, life extension, safe and reliable operation.
• Contributes to executing and meeting both annual fiscal year goals as well as long-term goals set for engineering and the business.
• Contributes to the engineering department goal of mentoring and teaching the junior engineers through Root Cause Analysis (RCA) reports, Corrective Actions (CAR), and updating the Lessons Learned database.
• Provide engineering support for sourcing, manufacturing and field operations to ensure high quality product throughout the entire product lifecycle.
• Develop and manage an engineering detailed schedule under close collaboration with the master scheduler for the full project with focus on the critical path to prioritize and optimize the field installation and outage duration.
• Responsible for evaluating technical risks on both the Offer to Order (OTO) and Order to Cash (OTC) sides of the business. This includes, but is not limited to conducting/participating in design reviews and FMEA processes.
• Ensures compliance and improvement of the engineering standards and executed technical design guidelines.
• Able to work proficiently in Solid Edge CAD and SAP to create and review solid models, drawings and Bills of Materials.
• Helps to maintain a smooth integration of designs with the other engineering functions within the region. This includes turbine/generator engineering, field engineering, and commissioning engineering.

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering
• Effective teamwork skills to lead a project team of Engineers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to multi-task based on business needs
• Strong organizational skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and accuracy to work product
• Minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience in an engineering environment, specifically energy/hydro power generation with a proven track record of successful project execution.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the key actions of job.

• The employee is required to talk and/or hear in an office setting (noise level is low). The employee is frequently required to stand and…