**Job Description Summary** Role Summary/Purpose Today's AC power grid is increasingly being pushed to its limits. The energy transition drives an unprecedented growth in demand for electricity, whilst generation is becoming more decentralized, more remote, more variable and generally grid-connected through an inverter interface. Planning processes and supply chain limitations are slowing down the required AC grid expansions, which means the existing grid is operated closer to its ratings and stability margins. GE Vernova’s Grid Systems Integration business line 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 is tasked with developing the R&D roadmap for FACTS 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 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 FACTS. **Job Description** **Essential Responsibilities** _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._ _Key Responsibilities:_ + _Serve as a recognized technical authority in FACTS solutions both internally and externally, and act as technical advisor to senior leadership levels_ + _Actively contribute to and drive standardization, 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_ + _Evaluating and championing innovative ideas_ + _Contribute to Intellectual Property management in terms of:_ + _The creation of patents_ + _The 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, 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_ + _Provide support quality teams on major quality issues and act as technical authority in root cause analysis processes_ + _Act as technical authority in competence management_ + _Identify and recommend improvements in specific discipline knowledge or technical training needs._ + _Contribute to creating structured training plans and associated training material_ + _Delivering training_ + _Mentor others to deliver training_ + _Act 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 implement best practice technologies and methods._ **Qualifications/Requirements:** _The position requires a deep technical understanding of the overlap between AC power system planning, stability and FACTS technologies. The successful candidate will deeply understand the intricacies of the AC power system, their limits and instabilities, the potential solution offered by (combinations of) different types of FACTS, and how to translate this into an effective value proposition to GE Vernova’s customers. This requires a strong foundation in both research and development and project engineering, having demonstrated significant technical depth and recognition as a domain expert across power systems, control algorithms, main circuit components, power electronics, and system stability, applying state-of-the-art technology to resolve complex technical challenges._ + _Masters degree or higher education equivalent in a topic related to the development of power system compensation and/or stability solutions, ideally with an application focus to power electronic systems_ + _Proven experience in:_ + _a power system engineering capacity_ + _acting as mentor, including to principal engineers_ + _research and development in power system stability_ + _Deep understanding of_ _AC power system operation, the various types of instability phenomena, and associated analysis techniques_ + _Knowledge and understanding of:_ + _FACTS technologies and operating strategies_ + _Primary hardware technologies_ + _Control & protection algorithms, software architecture & hardware platform_ + _Future developments in FACTS e.g. grid-forming, inclusion of energy storage_ + _FACTS applications, technology selection, sizing and siting_ + _FACTS market and supply chain_ + _National long term grid expansion plans for FACTS_ + _Overview of and active involvement in pre-standardisation and standardization initiatives for FACTS in international bodies such as IEEE, IEC and CIGRE_ + _Understanding of typical relevant regulatory frameworks, grid codes and business models applicable to the realization of FACTS_ + _Familiarity with typical power system planning strategies, processes, and studies_ + _Experience with the tools (simulation programs) required in FACTS planning studies e.g. PSS/E, PowerFactory and PSCAD_ + _FACTS pro’s and con’s, and the ability to develop a business case for different FACTS technologies based on a lifetime performance, costs and benefits analysis_ + _Familiarity with patent evaluation, application and management_ + _Open to regular business travel_ **Desired Characteristics:** + _Strong oral and written communication skills_ + _Strong interpersonal and leadership skills_ + _Leadership to pursue correct engineering process in adverse conditions_ + _Able to interface and communicate effectively with all levels of the organization_ + _Considered a lighthouse in the FACTS engineering discipline_ **Additional Information** **Relocation Assistance Provided:** Yes \#LI-Remote - This is a remote position GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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