Job Description Summary

Vernova Purpose

GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Are you excited at the opportunity to electrify and decarbonize the world?

Looking to make a global impact and solve problems? Through relentless innovation and continuous collaboration with our customers, GE Gas Power, part of GE Vernova, is providing more advanced, cleaner, and efficient power that people depend on today and building the energy technologies of the future.
Lead Plant Controls Standards and NPI Engineer for a world class engineering team that is responsible for the development of standards and the NPIs (New Product Introduction), to be converted to standards, as well as testing and validation of plant controls software and hardware. Through innovation and energetic partnering with other GE Vernova engineering teams and external customers you will have the opportunity to work with Systems Engineering, other NPI teams and CST (Control Systems Technology) controls teams to devise a roadmap for Plant controls for New Unit opportunities world-wide. This role requires some flexibility and judgement, in addition to closely collaborating and obtaining consensus with our internal & external customers, is critical in driving a team culture of technical domain depth, contemporary leadership, on-time quality execution and strong customer-focused mindset.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute strategies to gather and define requirements and validate plant standard control application software, comprising HRSG and Balance of Plant (BOP), against requirements while creating a permanent linkage between requirements and standards artifacts.

• Design, develop, and execute strategies to gather and define requirements and validate plant (HRSG and BOP) control application software against project- and program-specific requirements using standard artifacts as a basis.

• Work with the technical subject matter experts, Control Title Holders, internal customers, and external customers to gather control and operability requirements to deliver a quality product on time to meet power plant startups and commissioning activities.

• Define and deliver productivity and process improvements that increase the capacity of the Plant Controls team.

• Drive Model Based Engineering using AVEVA into Standards

• Lead and support Agile enterprise tool strategies, including IBM CLM (Collaborative Lifecycle Management) and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) integration

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience with Bachelor’s degree in engineering or technical discipline in Electrical, Instrumentation & Controls, Mechanical or related engineering

• At least 5 years of power plant controls experience

Desired Characteristics

• Strong technical skills and expertise and substantive experience in Integrated Combined Cycle Plant Control in HRSG, Balance of Plant

• Experience and knowledge on using Mark VIe

• Controls Software Validation knowledge

• Strong communication skills with the ability to motivate and engage teams, customers, and suppliers to get consensus and ability to sell technology through simple and clear messaging

• Proven change agent with the ability to influence across all levels of the organization

• Proven experience working in a global matrix environment, with influence and collaboration skills

• Strong supervision skills, keeping team focused and innovating through dynamic business cycle

• System Integration mindset within the Thermal Engineering community for meeting customer demands

• Simplification mindset, acting on feedback, driving productivity initiatives for business results and personal engineering satisfaction

• Experience in working in Agile Team methodologies will be an added advantage

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No