FACTS & VFT Service Project Engineer

GE Vernova•Saratoga Springs, NY

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

This role involves testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, servicing, maintaining, and upgrading General Electric equipment and its components, specifically focusing on Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) and Variable Frequency Transformers (VFTs). The engineer will act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for VFT and FACTS technology in the U.S., conduct design reviews, assess risks, and serve as the technical point of contact for customers and project managers. The position requires providing feedback to the Project Engineering Team to ensure technical quality and constructability, participating in engineering design reviews, and developing a knowledge base for VFT controls and drives. Field work for commissioning, maintenance, and troubleshooting on VFT & FACTS installations, including power electronic valves, synchronous machines, switchgear, cooling systems, and control systems, is also a key responsibility. The role includes remote assistance to clients for failure investigations, supporting business development by creating a VFT technology database, assisting with factory testing of power electronics components and control systems, evaluating and improving equipment testing procedures, identifying obsolescence issues, supervising FACTS system upgrades, and traveling to manufacturing locations for inspections and problem resolution. Additionally, the engineer will perform failure analysis studies and contribute to proposal development, including technical specifications and responses.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related.
Eight (8) years of experience in power system design, MV/HV electrical systems, or a combination thereof.
Five (5) years of experience modifying or troubleshooting control algorithms in PLC Controllers, including Mark6e controllers.
High power generation site commissioning experience as field engineer and commissioning leader.
Sub-station protection testing and related commissioning experience.
Low-voltage DC-AC converters for generator excitation or industrial motor control.
Testing control cabinets with a Real Time Simulator.
Supporting operation of Variable Frequency Transformers (VFTs) and related auxiliary systems.

Responsibilities

Test, commission, troubleshoot, service, maintain and upgrade General Electric equipment and its components.
Support Service & Design requirements in active service projects and ‘Flexible AC Transmission Systems’ (FACTS) installation.
Act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the ‘Variable Frequency Transformer’ (VFT) and FACTS technology in the U.S.
Undertake detailed design reviews and risk assessment of engineering deliverables.
Serve as single point of contact for technical issues for the customer and project manager.
Provide critical feedback to the Project Engineering Team to ensure technical quality, feasibility, completeness, and constructability of the design.
Participate in engineering design reviews and provide critical commentary on risks to the project schedule and constructability.
Provide insights on the VFT controls and drives upgrade and participate in developing a knowledge base for the technology.
Perform and assist in field work for commissioning, maintenance and troubleshooting on VFT & FACTS installation and products.
Remotely assist clients to investigate VFT & FACTS installation failures or problems.
Assist the Business Development activities by establishing a database for the VFT technology.
Assist FACTS engineers with factory testing of power electronics components and controls systems.
Evaluate and develop improved equipment testing procedures to maximize reliability, maintainability and field installation constraints.
Identify impending obsolescence issues to Engineering management for action.
Supervise upgrades of various components of FACTS system.
Travel to manufacturing locations to inspect work and mark up drawings as required, witness and review test work, assist in resolving manufacturing problems.
Perform various type of studies and analysis to understand the root cause of failures and malfunction of FACTS installation.
Assist clients to investigate FACTS installation failures or problems.
Work on developing proposals including writing and/or reviewing technical specifications, estimating materials, supporting sourcing for vendor quotations, directing designers and draftsmen on drawing requirements, and the development of clarifications and exceptions as well as technical responses.