Job Description Summary
As a Control& Protection Lead Engineer, you will be working with HVDC NPI to develop the controls solution based on eLumina platform reporting to the NPI/NTI Leader. The successful candidates require to mentor and lead other engineers to deliver project scope, drive consistent design practices keeping product mindset and provide technical solution to industrialize the product.
This includes the following.
• Engineering process management
• Provide technical guidance.
• Provide design Guide.
• Drive consistent design practices and common global processes for projects.
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
As a Control & Protection Lead Engineer, you will also play a key part in technically developing less experienced members of the team, this is a great opportunity to further your mentoring experience as there is scope for this role to build the team up further in the future.
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- Responsible for leading overall requirement, design, implementation, and development of the HVDC Control & Protection system, this includes the following actives:
- Requirement & Design
- Engineering Design Process & Review
- Reviewing and approving technical documents
- HVDC System in electromagnetic transient tools like PSCAD, EMTP-RV etc.
- Plant modelling in various simulation tools (MATLAB, PSCAD etc) and its verification.
- Control and protection parameters tuning to meet grid stability criteria specified in customer technical specifications.
- Provide technical guidance that influences outcomes to other people, supporting moderate complexity projects and/or tasks.
- Play a key role in engineering design reviews and technical leadership, identifying potential project risks and technical weaknesses and proposing safe, reliable and compliant solutions.
- Execute and provide guidance for the analysis / evaluation of assigned projects that meet NPI objective
- Responsible for coaching and developing department talent.
- Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May lead small projects with low risks and resource requirements.
- Uses judgment to make decisions or solve moderately complex tasks or problems in areas of operational/product management, manufacturing, technology or engineering. Takes new perspective on existing solutions. Uses technical experience and expertise for data analysis to support recommendations.
- Continuously improving the product in terms of delivery speed, stability and reliability
Required Qualifications
- Degree in Electronics/Electrical engineering or proven equivalent knowledge and experience in HVDC business
- Minimum of 12 years' experience in control and protection system design
- Expertise in HVDC Control, Protection and Sequencing strategy
- Expertise in PSCAD and MATLAB-SIMULINK simulation tools
- Expertise in HVDC Dynamic Performance Studies
- Experienced in technical leadership.
- Must be flexible with working hours and willing to travel in order to support projects globall
- Ability to understand and communicate customer requirements, ownership of technical discussions with customers and capable of developing client relationships.
Desired Characteristics
- Strong oral and written communication skills. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems. Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs. Established project management skills.
- Proven technical leadership in a complex system engineering development environment.
- Proactively serves on cross functional leadership teams; Makes decisions independently; Pulls in experts when needed.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No