Consulting Engineer – HVDC Valves

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 heart of such converter stations are the power electronic valves. GE Vernova’s Grid Systems Integration business line offers 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.

GE Vernova’s CTO office is tasked with developing the R&D roadmap for HVDC valve technologies, 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 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 power electronics specialist to join us as a Consulting Engineer for HVDC valves.

Consulting Engineers are highly sought after within the GE Vernova business to provide expertise on challenging problems and to facilitate interfaces with adjacent technical domains. They are likely to have a number of publications, including conference papers, and patents. These professionals lead major technical initiatives, advocate for technological advancement, chair design reviews, mentor Principal Engineers and senior engineers, and benchmark their technology domain.

They define the need for new design practices, author and review design standards, ensure lessons learned are documented and disseminated, and deliver effective technical presentations to upper management and external parties.

Consulting Engineers lead R&D and product enhancement projects with broad scope and significant impact on the business, acting as recognized experts in specific fields. They are tasked with major and complex assignments that bear long‑term business implications, contributing to overall strategy and navigating complex issues within their area of expertise.

• Serve as a recognized technical authority in HVDC valves 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 valves 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 valves 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…