Consulting Engineer- FACTS

Consulting Engineer‑ FACTS

GE Vernova

Today's AC power grid is increasingly pushed to its limits. The energy transition drives an unprecedented growth in demand for electricity, while generation is becoming more decentralized, remote, variable, and generally grid‑connected through an inverter interface. Planning processes and supply‑chain limitations slow the required AC grid expansions, so the existing grid operates closer to its ratings and stability margins. GE Vernova’s Grid Systems Integration offers a full set of flexible AC transmission system (FACTS) technologies to assist grid owners and operators in maintaining reliability and adequacy by managing voltage levels, optimizing power flows, and mitigating instabilities.

GE Vernova’s CTO office develops the R&D roadmap for FACTS technologies, manages company competencies, and supports projects with specialised technical support. Consulting Engineers, within the CTO team, are the highest technical authority in GE Vernova’s Grid Systems Integration and Cross Electrification business. They act as executive technical consultants, ensuring customer confidence, reviewing and enhancing design practices, acting as gatekeepers for technical reviews, applying lessons learned, leading complex, state‑of‑the‑art technology improvements, engaging with quality reviews, and conducting cost‑optimisation exercises across their domain and other domains.

Consulting Engineers are highly sought within GE Vernova to provide expertise on challenging problems and to facilitate interfaces with adjacent technical domains. They lead major technical initiatives, advocate for technological advancement, chair design reviews, mentor Principal Engineers and senior engineers, benchmark their technology domain, define new design practices, author and review design standards, ensure lessons learned are documented, disseminated, and deliver effective technical presentations to upper management and external parties.

• Serve as a recognized technical authority in FACTS solutions internally and externally, acting as technical advisor to senior leadership.
• Actively contribute to and drive standardisation, coordinate working‑group activities, and represent GE Vernova in IEC/CIGRE and similar professional bodies, task forces, and industry committees.
• Stay abreast of, collect, and internally communicate state‑of‑the‑art technology developments in FACTS technologies and applications.
• Gather external information to determine future market needs.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop and maintain a strategic FACTS technology roadmap.
• Suggest areas for technological advancement and recommend approaches/programs to pursue.
• Evaluate and champion innovative ideas.
• Contribute to intellectual property management: creation of patents and review of patents to ensure freedom to operate.
• Oversee various R&D programmes through to industrialisation, integrating new technology smoothly into production and ensuring successful project delivery.
• Chair and act as technical authority in technology and product development gate reviews.
• Collaborate and promote technology synergies across GE Vernova businesses of Power Conversion Systems, Grid Automation and Power Technology, utilising shared expertise and resources.
• Support the commercial teams with their technical business development and sales.
• Support supply‑chain and procurement departments with technical expertise.
• Lead or support study teams addressing identified project challenges in focused technical areas.
• Provide support to quality teams on major quality issues and act as technical authority in root‑cause analysis processes.
• Act as technical authority in competence management, identifying and recommending improvements in discipline knowledge or technical training needs; creating structured training plans and associated training material; delivering training; mentoring others to deliver training; acting as technical authority in principal and senior competence assessments.
• Consult with and support the Chief Engineer’s Office in executing the office’s technical objectives to…