Consulting Engineer- FACTS

Consulting Engineer‑ FACTS GE Vernova Job Description Summary Today's AC power grid is increasingly pushed to its limits. The energy transition drives an unprecedented growth in demand for electricity, while generation is becoming more decentralized, remote, variable, and generally grid‑connected through an inverter interface. Planning processes and supply‑chain limitations slow the required AC grid expansions, so the existing grid operates closer to its ratings and stability margins. GE Vernova’s Grid Systems Integration offers a full set of flexible AC transmission system (FACTS) technologies to assist grid owners and operators in maintaining reliability and adequacy by managing voltage levels, optimizing power flows, and mitigating instabilities. GE Vernova’s CTO office develops the R&D roadmap for FACTS technologies, manages company competencies, and supports projects with specialised technical support. Consulting Engineers, within the CTO team, are the highest technical authority in GE Vernova’s Grid Systems Integration and Cross Electrification business. They act as executive technical consultants, ensuring customer confidence, reviewing and enhancing design practices, acting as gatekeepers for technical reviews, applying lessons learned, leading complex, state‑of‑the‑art technology improvements, engaging with quality reviews, and conducting cost‑optimisation exercises across their domain and other domains. Essential Responsibilities Consulting Engineers are highly sought within GE Vernova to provide expertise on challenging problems and to facilitate interfaces with adjacent technical domains. They lead major technical initiatives, advocate for technological advancement, chair design reviews, mentor Principal Engineers and senior engineers, benchmark their technology domain, define new design practices, author and review design standards, ensure lessons learned are documented, disseminated, and deliver effective technical presentations to upper management and external parties. Key Responsibilities Serve as a recognized technical authority in FACTS solutions internally and externally, acting as technical advisor to senior leadership. Actively contribute to and drive standardisation, coordinate working‑group activities, and represent GE Vernova in IEC/CIGRE and similar professional bodies, task forces, and industry committees. Stay abreast of, collect, and internally communicate state‑of‑the‑art technology developments in FACTS technologies and applications. Gather external information to determine future market needs. Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop and maintain a strategic FACTS technology roadmap. Suggest areas for technological advancement and recommend approaches/programs to pursue. Evaluate and champion innovative ideas. Contribute to intellectual property management: creation of patents and review of patents to ensure freedom to operate. Oversee various R&D programmes through to industrialisation, integrating new technology smoothly into production and ensuring successful project delivery. Chair and act as technical authority in technology and product development gate reviews. Collaborate and promote technology synergies across GE Vernova businesses of Power Conversion Systems, Grid Automation and Power Technology, utilising shared expertise and resources. Support the commercial teams with their technical business development and sales. Support supply‑chain and procurement departments with technical expertise. Lead or support study teams addressing identified project challenges in focused technical areas. Provide support to quality teams on major quality issues and act as technical authority in root‑cause analysis processes. Act as technical authority in competence management, identifying and recommending improvements in discipline knowledge or technical training needs; creating structured training plans and associated training material; delivering training; mentoring others to deliver training; acting as technical authority in principal and senior competence assessments. Consult with and support the Chief Engineer’s Office in executing the office’s technical objectives to implement best‑practice technologies and methods. Qualifications / Requirements Master’s degree or higher education equivalent in power system compensation and/or stability solutions, ideally with an application focus on power electronics. Proven experience in power system engineering capacity, mentoring principal engineers, and research and development in power system stability. Deep understanding of AC power system operation, instability phenomena, and associated analysis techniques. Knowledge and understanding of FACTS technologies and operating strategies, including primary hardware technologies, control & protection algorithms, software architecture & hardware platform. Familiarity with future developments in FACTS (e.g., grid‑forming, inclusion of energy storage), applications, technology selection, sizing and siting. Understanding of FACTS market and supply chain, national long‑term grid expansion plans for FACTS, and pre‑standardisation and standardisation initiatives in international bodies such as IEEE, IEC and CIGRE. Understanding of relevant regulatory frameworks, grid codes and business models applicable to the realization of FACTS. Familiarity with typical power system planning strategies, processes, and studies. Experience with tools required in FACTS planning studies (e.g., PSS/E, PowerFactory, PSCAD). Ability to develop a business case for different FACTS technologies based on lifetime performance, cost and benefit analysis. Familiarity with patent evaluation, application and management. Open to regular business travel. Desired Characteristics Strong oral and written communication skills. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills. Leadership to pursue correct engineering processes in adverse conditions. Able to interface and communicate effectively with all levels of the organization. Considered a lighthouse in the FACTS engineering discipline. For U.S. based candidates only, for purposes of complying with U.S. pay transparency requirements, the base pay range for this position is ($140,700 -mid $205,200 -max $269,600). The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set. This posting is expected to close on 15/12/25. The company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes. This is a remote position. #J-18808-Ljbffr