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Role Summary/Purpose

As a member of the Haliade-X Power conversion team, the successful candidate will be an active contributor supporting GE Renewable business initiatives related to wind turbine grid integration for offshore wind business.

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 Hal-X

• 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)

• Demonstrated application of complex mathematics and engineering to real-world (not merely academic) electric power problems.

• 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.

• Awarded patents on HV power equipment applications a plus.

• 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

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