AddressAbout us
Grid Solutions, a GE Renewable Energy business, serves customers globally with over 12,000 employees. We provide power utilities and industries worldwide with equipment, systems, and services to bring power reliably and efficiently from the point of generation to end power consumers. We are focused on addressing the challenges of the energy transition by enabling the safe and reliable connection of renewable and distributed energy resources to the grid. For more about GE’s Grid Solutions, visit https://www.gegridsolutions.com.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Responsible for the execution of Engineering and Consulting Services Projects inside the Engineering & Consulting CoE. This includes schedule, customer communication, scope of work, budget, and quality.
- Responsible for leading the development of a project technical scope of work and engineering effort estimations
- Lead customer and regional engagements to define customer requirements and develop innovative solutions
- Execute engineering studies and analysis across the transmission, distribution, and industrial segments.
- Design and testing of customized P&C solutions (both in house and at customer installations) to meet user specifications & requirements
- Programing protection relays and RTUs
- Lead the development and design of advanced protection solutions
- Develop test setups, test plans, and test case (including wiring diagrams and configurations of relays and controllers)
- Perform in Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) including Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) tests using real-time digital simulators
- Prepare test reports, project reports, and project deliverables
- Analyze and troubleshoot field cases involving GE or third-party relays
- Participate in preparation of technical papers to be presented at conferences and other venues.
- Participate in business development activities to grow services, including writing and presenting technical papers, delivering customer presentations.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Computer or Power Systems Engineering with very good understanding of power system applications and analysis.
- Minimum of 6 years of experience in protection, control, and automation applications
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 30% of the time depending on projects
Desired Characteristics
- Excellent understanding of Power Systems phenomena in transmission & distribution systems
- Understanding of power system protection relays, automation, control and communication protocols.
- Ethical and professional business manner in interaction with team members and customers.
- Customer focused; open to accept new challenges and share ideas
- Technical skills to execute projects and write SOW proposals.
- Strong learning skills.
- Willingness and ability to work across time zones to support global customers if required
- Experienced in study software and power system tools such as Mathcad, MATLAB, PSSE, Power Factory, ASPEN, CAPE for automating the power system study process.
- Understand of communication system protocols and architectures in electric power industry (DNP3, MODBUS, IEC61850, OpenFMB, etc.).
- Experience with RTDS or Opal Simulation Platforms
- Flexibility to work in a multi-customer environment and to adapt to requests/comments made in the course of execution.
- Experience with transmission, distribution, and smart grid standards;
- Strong communication skills including technical writing and presentations
- Knowledge or field experience with system commissioning and testing
- Experience with advanced automation solutions such as microgrids and remedial action schemes
- Experience with IEC 61131-3 PLC Programming Languages.
- Project Management experience
