Plant Engineering Team Lead

Job Description Summary

GE Vernova - Grid Systems Integration product line is globally recognized for designing, manufacturing, and delivering customized High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) solutions for utilities worldwide. With over 130 years of pioneering experience, GE offers two HVDC technologies, Line Commutated Converters (LCC) and Voltage Source Converters (VSC), to support a broad range of applications and deployable in different schemes including overhead line (point to point), back-to-back, submarine/land cable and offshore.
Every HVDC solution is tailored and designed based on a project-by-project assessment of the customers' individual requirements, whether it's for connecting offshore wind generation, long distance power transmission, or energy trading between independent networks.

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• Essential responsibilities
• Manage & develop local teams at local centers,
• Ensure proper implementation of plant engineering process,
• Promote local opportunities (e.g. knowledge sharing with other disciplines, with ACS local centers, close collaboration with local customers, local universities, local industry bodies... when relevant)
• Support Continuous Improvement initiatives,
• Convert project contractual documents into plant engineering requirements,
• Define and/or control plant engineering planning for the project ensuring on-time delivery,
• Release plant engineering deliverables as per project planning & cost without non-conformity,
• Support plant engineering planning and cost estimation for the project
• Lead the plant engineers for the assigned project(s) (functional reports)
• Lead the design optimized substation & buildings layouts integrating all the required equipment considering their installation, operation, and maintenance constraints,
• Interface with other disciplines
• Answer to client, partners & suppliers technical queries related to plant engineering,
• Organize and perform projects design/gate reviews related to plant engineering & support other disciplines' ones when required.
• Lead change control impacting plant engineering deliverables & activities,
• Support continuous improvement within plant engineering discipline.

• Accurate knowledge of local environment & behaviors
• Strong knowledge on High Voltage substation international standards & guidelines (IEC, IEEE, CIGRE...) and related equipment
• Strong knowledge on contract and project management, Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC), or Engineering equipment package (EEP) type
• Good knowledge of Autodesk CAD tools Revit & Navisworks
• Good understanding of onshore civil engineering and offshore platform design and requirements
• Leadership, analytical mind, rigorous and commitment,
• Professional English spoken and written,
• A bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related discipline
• Minimum 12 years of experience in engineering management for EPC project, ideally in primary design for substation projects
• Mobility required (on-site visits or client meetings ~10% of the time)