Controls Quality Engineer - Operability
About The Position
The Controls Quality team is seeking an experienced Controls Quality Engineer - Operability to improve the testing and operational effectiveness, reliability, and quality of wind turbine controls algorithms. This role focuses on validating controls features that mitigate load conditions, detect turbine anomalies through operational feedback, and optimize turbine performance through advanced controls strategies. The successful candidate will partner closely with Controls Development teams to ensure operational behavior observed in the field is continuously incorporated into validation strategies, defect prevention activities, and future product development. This position plays a critical role in improving fleet operability, customer experience, and overall turbine performance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Science
- Minimum 5 years of controls engineering experience
- Eligibility Requirements: Ability and willingness to travel up to 10%
- The required work location is Greenville, SC, Schenectady, NY, or Barcelona.
Nice To Haves
- 8+ years of engineering experience.
- Experience with wind turbine controls and turbine operability.
- Experience with load mitigation strategies, anomaly detection algorithms, or performance optimization controls.
- Proficiency with fleet performance analysis and trend identification.
- Experience developing validation plans and test strategies.
- Knowledge of MATLAB/Simulink or similar modeling tools.
- Experience supporting RCA, PAC, and structured problem-solving activities.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience presenting technical recommendations to leadership teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support RCA and PAC investigations involving turbine operability and controls behavior.
- Analyze fleet operational data to identify emerging risks, performance opportunities, and defect trends.
- Evaluate control algorithms related to load mitigation, anomaly detection, and performance optimization.
- Drive improvements to validation strategies that verify operational behavior under representative field conditions.
- Identify defect escape pathways and implement preventive quality improvements.
- Support development of testing methodologies that improve detection of operability-related defects.
- Partner with Controls Development teams to strengthen requirements and validation coverage.
- Collaborate with Fleet Performance Management to understand field performance trends and customer impacts.
- Evaluate availability, downtime, forced outages, nuisance trips, alarm frequency, restart performance, and customer escalations to identify quality improvement opportunities.
- Translate field learnings into engineering recommendations and validation improvements.
- Support release readiness reviews through independent quality assessment of operability risks.
- Apply Lean methodologies and data-driven decision making to improve product quality and operational performance.
- Leverage AI-enabled analytics to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for continuous improvement.
Benefits
- Relocation Assistance Provided
- medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
- access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource
- access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services
- GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions
- access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants
- tuition assistance
- adoption assistance
- paid parental leave
- disability benefits
- life insurance
- 12 paid holidays
- permissive time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
