Generator Excitation Engineer

Role: Generator Excitation Engineer

Location: Longmont CO - Onsite

Duration: Full Time.

Salary: $100K - $120K per annum Plus benefits

What You will Do:

• The types of exciters being replaced include potential source bus fed brushless DC rotating and partial / full compound.
• The replacement excitation system sizes range from 35A voltage regulators to 8000A full static multi-bridges.
• Strong technical management and customer communication skills are essential.
• An understanding of power electronics and generator applications is desirable.
• Responsible for the technical execution of the system engineering hardware generation and software generation from order hand-off until the completion of commissioning.
• This includes providing technical support to the commissioning team. This is a global business with regional engineering teams supporting the factory-based team.
• In this role you will be responsible for technical ownership and interfacing with the regional engineering resources daily to coordinate gathering of field data support phone meetings with customers and phone support during commissioning.

Responsibilities:

• Review project information to understand scope. This includes schedules process flows manuals commercial documentation and engineering specs.
• Apply electrical and mechanical engineering principles to analyse design test and troubleshoot industrial process control systems while minimizing cost.
• Ensure all products meet quality control standards.
• Ability to design and understand technical plans blueprints drawings and models.
• Knowledge of how various systems interact with one another and how changes in operations the environment and other conditions will affect the process.
• As part of a team provide customers with technical direction and support.
• Support site commissionings and customer communication both internal and external.
• Troubleshoot complex mechanical electrical control and process issues on live systems as well as simulations
• Design control systems for interface to existing unit operations equipment and evaluate all system components requirements and interactions.
• Program/configure control system software in a visual programming language.
• Responsible to coordinate and lead technical design reviews of projects and to update and archive all required documentation.
• Demonstrated expertise in technical problem resolution especially with respect to power plant and other industrial operations.
• Support all project documentation creation as part of a well-established process as well as custom needs.
• Ensure project execution is carried out safely to comply with company Health Safety and Environmental (HSE) guidelines and procedures.
• Drive customer satisfaction via commitment to quality.
• Must work well both independently and in a team environment.
• Support sales activities to ensure accurate customer proposals and other commercial needs.
• Interface with management project managers colleagues and other engineers to keep stakeholders informed of project risks during execution.
• Accountable for project deliverables customer CTQ (critical to quality) compliance and on-time schedule performance.
• Frequently interact with customers and suppliers.
• Support streamlining of engineering processes and business growth.