Senior Excitation Engineer Nuclear (Remote Eligible, U.S)
Longmont, CO - USA
Job Summary
Roles and Responsibilities
- Nuclear Fleet Strategy: Define the long-term technical roadmap for excitation systems in the global nuclear fleet including obsolescence management digital upgrades and life-extension programs.
- Regulatory & Compliance Leadership: Ensure all excitation designs and modifications strictly adhere to nuclear regulatory requirements and internal Nuclear Quality Management Systems.
- High-Consequence Problem Solving: Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for complex high-priority system disturbances in nuclear facilities ensuring that solutions prioritize both plant availability and safety-critical stability.
- Advanced Grid-Nuclear Interaction: Direct advanced modeling and simulation to analyze the interaction between large-scale nuclear baseload generation and evolving grid codes ensuring the fleets continued stability.
- Consulting SME: Provide expert-level consulting to the Commercial and Sales teams for multi-million dollar nuclear retrofit tenders ensuring technical feasibility and risk mitigation.
- Knowledge Preservation: Institutionalize decades of excitation domain expertise by mentoring Staff and Lead engineers for nuclear excitation engineering. Provide guidance and leadership in developing documentation standards.
- Design Authority: Lead formal design reviews for New Product Introductions (NPI) and custom nuclear applications ensuring rigorous verification and validation (V&V).
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in electrical engineering (Masters or PhD strongly preferred).
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in power generation engineering with at least 58 years specifically focused on excitation systems or mission-critical power plant controls.
- Exposure working within a Nuclear Safety Culture and navigating nuclear-specific quality and documentation standards.
- Deep knowledge in synchronous generator theory and power system stability.
- Strong systems engineering capability with the ability to lead complex cross-functional integration efforts across excitation controls generator systems plant interfaces and nuclear operational requirements.
Eligibility Requirements
- The work location for this role is Longmont CO (relocation assistance provided if not already local).
- This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.
- Ability to travel globally (up to 25%) to support outages customer design reviews and regulatory audits (For Remote candidates travel would require up to 50% travel).
Desired Characteristics
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in power generation engineering with at least 710 years specifically focused on excitation systems or mission-critical power plant controls.
- Recognized industry expert with a history of participation in IEEE/IEC working groups or nuclear industry forums (e.g. NEI EPRI).
- Exceptional ability to evaluate how excitation transients impact the broader nuclear island and balance-of-plant systems.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical teams during high-pressure forced outages or emergency site remediations.
- Support implementing predictive maintenance technologies within a regulated nuclear framework.
- Mastery in communicating complex technical risks to utility executives and regulatory bodies.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license or specialized degree / certifications.
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This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.
GE Vernova offers a great work environment professional development challenging careers and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is anEqual Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
Required Experience:
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