Lead Grid Integration Engineer- Power Conversion

**Essential Responsibilities**:

- Provide product development and technical analysis related to power electronic and power systems control in offshore wind business.
- Ensure sub-system full integrated solution, controls as well as turbine system requirement (including grid code).
- Perform Engineering Excellence and provide innovative design solutions to deliver world class quality.
- Turbine system modeling with focus on Power Conversion part and turbine grid integration
- Customer requirements review, clause by clause review
- Develop technical understanding of electrical characteristics of GE’s power electronic generation and transmission products and their integration to electrical grids.
- Support customers with power systems engineering expertise; including equipment design, specification studies, commissioning support, troubleshooting, and failure mode analyses.
- Supporting continuous development of transmission and distribution products based on evolving grid codes and standards through participation in industry standards groups and leading innovative approaches to power equipment design.
- Effectively communicate to both internal and external customers by preparing detailed written reports or presentations describing analyses performed, solutions developed, and customer value propositions.
- Actively participate on and support project teams ensuring high quality deliverables, budget, and on-time project metrics are met.
- Actively participate in a working environment where teamwork, quality, customer service and innovation are prized.
- Owning the turbine grid integration models (PSCAD, PowerFactory, PSSE, harmonic model, state space) for HALIAD-X and NEXT GEN platforms
- Ensure proper flow down of grid code requirements to main power converter control specification, inputs to design specification of main turbine components

**Qualifications/Requirements**:

- Master’s degree in electrical, or electric power engineering.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in electrical or electric power engineering. Demonstrated experience in technical performance analysis of electric power systems with power electronic sources or loads.
- Experience in planning and execution of technical projects relevant to electric power systems and equipment design.
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills (e.g. ability to effectively communicate with all levels of GE and customer/plant staff, and customer).
- Understanding of grid systems interactions with power plant equipment and controls.
- Experience with simulation tools (PSCAD / PowerFactory required, and MATLAB / PSSE desired).
- Experience with programming environments to understand controller code and complex simulation modeling (Python or Fortran desired)
- Experience with time-domain simulation tools, specifically programming, tuning, and using user-written “black box” models in PSCAD for wind turbine generators, or other advanced power electronic based systems.
- Wind industry expertise with proven results developing & implementing technology programs.
- Experience in conducting system validation, test bench testing, and field measurements
- Knowledge of Standards and Design Codes.
- Experience in analyzing grid codes, extracting requirement end define system/component specification for meeting that grid codes
- Skilled in electrical component design calculations, specifications, and schematics.
- Demonstrated system thinking: ability to assess tradeoffs, effectively assess risk, and optimize results.
- Business acumen and customer focus.
- Demonstrated ability to work horizontally across stakeholders to influence outcomes.
- Coordination skills with different parties (internal & external).
- Strong interpersonal skills including: ownership, self-motivated, problem solving, analytical, team player, communication skills and ability to develop relationships.
- Willingness to travel as needed (up to 10%).
- Fluent in English (spoken and written).

**Desired**:

- Master’s or PhD degree in electrical or electric power engineering, or related field of study.
- Industry reputation, prior IEEE/CIGRE published articles related to practical (not overly-academic) topics, participation in industry standards working groups.
- Experience in HV power system design, including power system interaction with HVDC.
- Experience with modeling and simulating inverter-based technologies in PSSE using both generic and user written models.

**Additional Information**:
**Relocation Assistance Provided**:No