Job Description Summary

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

Insulation Coordination Studies: Determination (by simulation) of temporary and transient overvoltage stresses on equipment and surge arrester energy ratings.

Network studies: 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).

Represent the business in external events by publishing technical papers
Apply yourself towards improving your technical knowledge base and keep abreast of relevant methodologies and technological advancement within the Company.

Support and mentor other engineers to increase the teams technical knowledge and competence
Values: Comply with the GE Values Charter
Report or resolve any nonconformances 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.

Desired additional skills
Filter Design: Design of AC DC high Frequency harmonic filters and screening. Calculations of filter performance and rating. Creation of projectspecific equipment specifications for filter reactors/capacitors/resistors.

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.
Knowledge of system tools like PSCAD PSS/E DigSilent RTDS and MATLAB etc.
Insulation coordination and main equipment characteristics for HVDC
An expertise of the use of computer mathematical and simulation tools as applied to the design of the aforementioned activities

Power Quality Issues
A general understanding of the characteristics of HVDC Valves and their control systems.
Presentation ability

Desired Characteristics

Able to work to deadlines with high quality sense of urgency and delivery
Good technical communication skills
Selfmotivating proactive and results driven approach
Strong problemsolving and root cause identification skills
Precise documentation
Ability to be a team player and to work independently
Professional approach to engineering delivery
Right first time culture & attitude

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