Lead Engineer System Studies

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

• Insulation Coordination Studies: Determination (by simulation) of temporary and transient overvoltage stress on equipment and surge arrester energy ratings.
• Network studies for the confirmation of the correct interaction between the equipment, its control system and the rest of the network.
• Reliability and Availability Studies: Creation of overall reliability and availability models for projects and reporting to the client.
• Losses: Calculation of overall project losses and reporting to the client.
• Provide guidance and coordinate the engineering tasks to meet the project/tender requirement.
• Technical responsibility in areas of expertise
• Development and Industrialization: Develop and industrialize solutions tools and processes associated with the engineering activities identified above.
• Be actively involved in new developments in HVDC technologies, implementing control and protection solutions and creating / delivering new analysis techniques and system study tools in order to provide optimized system study solutions.
• Process Improvement: Review and record design processes and develop new or improved processes.
• Enforce engineering discipline and set processes across all work tasks and adherence to company policies, quality procedures and work instructions (e.g. through trainings, technical reviews).
• Representing the business in external events by publishing technical papers
• Apply to improve your technical knowledge base and keep abreast of relevant methodologies and technological advancement within the Company.
• Support and mentor other engineers to increase the team’s technical knowledge and competence
• Values: Comply with the GE Values Charter
• Report or resolve any non-conformances in a timely manner.
• Identify and evaluate EHS risks in the team area and implement practical measures.
• Set the example by demonstrating the proper acts and actively observe work conditions and behaviors, giving constructive feedback and celebrating EHS effective prevention.
• Actively participate in defining corrective actions when work is unsafe or when an uncontrolled risk is observed.
• Routinely observe routines and behaviors of others and provide immediate feedback regarding unsafe behavior and celebrates achievements or safe behaviors.
• Actively and routinely promote the identification of hazards and near misses to their team/s.
• Managed cross-functional collaboration with internal and external interfaces.

Qualifications / Requirements

• Educated with an Engineering degree (or equivalent) including power systems and power electronics subjects (minimum 2:1) with proven professional experience and technical expertise in the field of power system engineering and preferably in HVDC System Design.
• Conversant with system tools like PSCAD, PSS/E, DigSilent, RTDS, MATLAB, FORTRAN, Python and Isograph etc.
• RMS System studies such as load-flow, short circuit and stability (both the network and harmonics).
• EMT System studies such as transient overvoltages, TRV, Ferro resonance, ZMP etc.
• Insulation co-ordination and main equipment characteristics for HVDC
• An expertise in the use of computer mathematical and simulation tools as applied to the design of the aforementioned activities
• Power Quality Studies and mitigation measures of issues
• A general understanding of the characteristics of HVDC Valves and their control systems.
• Presentation ability

Desired additional skills

• Filter Design: Design of AC, DC, high Frequency harmonic filters and screening. Calculations of filter performance and rating. Creation of project-specific equipment specifications for filter reactors/capacitors/resistors.
• Equipment Specification: Creation of project-specific, high economic value, equipment specifications for equipment such as power transformers, instrument transformers, reactors, capacitors, surge arresters etc.
• EMC, RFI and PLC interference subject area knowledge - studies and mitigation measures
• Earthing and bonding studies

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No