Consulting Engineer - HVDC Controls & Protection Algorithms

Job Description Summary

The energy transition drives an unprecedented growth in demand for and generation of electricity. To accommodate this growth, the capacity of transmission system is projected to grow three-fold. High voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission systems will play a key role in connecting remote and offshore renewables, interconnecting energy markets and reinforcing AC grids. Converter stations are required to convert AC to DC and vice versa.

The brain of such converter stations are the control and protection systems which, among other things, ensure efficient, safe, and reliable operation of the power electronic valves and peripheral equipment. GE Vernova’s Grid Systems Integration business line offers control and protection solutions for both voltage sourced converter (VSC) as well as line commutated converter (LCC) HVDC valve technologies to meet the transmission planning needs of utilities, system operators, developers and industrial clients worldwide.

The control & protection algorithms are key to enabling the HVDC transmission systems’ functionality, capabilities and performance.

GE Vernova’s CTO office is tasked with developing the R&D roadmap for HVDC control & protection algorithms, managing competencies within the company, and supporting projects with specialised technical support. Consulting Engineers, who sit in the CTO team, are the highest technical authority within GE Vernova's Grid Systems Integration and Cross Electrification business. They act as executive technical consultant, ensuring customer confidence, reviewing and enhancing design practices, acting as a gate keeper for technical reviews, applying lessons learned, leading complex, state‑of‑the‑art technology improvements, engaging with quality reviews and cost optimization exercises both within their specialist domain and across other domains.

GE Vernova is currently looking for an experienced technical specialist to join us as Consulting Engineer for HVDC control & protection algorithms.

• Serve as a recognized technical authority in HVDC control & protection algorithms solutions both internally and externally, and act as technical advisor to senior leadership levels
• Actively contribute to and drive both internal and external standardization, coordinate working group activities and proactively 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 HVDC control & protection platform algorithms and applications
• Gather external information to determine future market needs
• Work with external parties to identify new requirements, products and solutions
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop and maintain a strategic HVDC control & protection algorithms technology roadmap
• Suggest areas for technological advancement and recommend approaches/programs to pursue
• Evaluating and championing innovative ideas
• Contribute to Intellectual Property management in terms of:
  • The creation of patents
  • Participating in patent evaluation board
  • The review of patents to ensure freedom to operate
  • Mentor other engineers in the patenting process
• Oversee various R&D programmes from conception 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, utilizing 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/support study teams addressing identified project challenges in focused technical areas
• Lead/support the development of technical proposals to collaborate on the development of new technologies, functions and applications sponsored by external funding bodies
• Support project technical tendering and delivery in the introduction of new solutions
• Suppor…