Senior Control and Protection Verification - Stafford, United Kingdom - Renewable Energy Grid Solutions

Renewable Energy Grid Solutions
Renewable Energy Grid Solutions
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Stafford, United Kingdom

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Become part of a winning team and help to deliver the Green Energy transition.

As a Senior Control and Protection Verification & Validation Product Specialist you will be working across the Engineering Delivery function and the NPI


As a Senior Control and Protection Verification & Validation Product Specialist you will be working across the Engineering Delivery function and the NPI function, reporting directly to the Head of Control and Protection Verification & Validation.


This role includes developing department talent, engineering process management, provide technical guidance, mentoring, drive consistent design practices and common global processes for projects implementation and provide technical solution that meets the needs of NPI, project delivery.


Essential Responsibilities:


  • As a Senior Control & Protection Verification & Validation, 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.
  • Provide strategic and tactical direction for Verification and Validation of HVDC Control and Protection System in collaboration with Grid and HVDC technology groups.
  • Establish a process to assess, review and record the testing needs and boundaries of each project to ensure that the control system is verified to the maximum extent possible before leaving the factory.
  • Lead the generation of plans, procedures and specifications for the Development of Integration System Tests, Full System Tests, and Factory Acceptance Tests and Commissioning Tests at site.
  • Develop, maintain and Prepare Test Management Plans & Solutions.
  • Be Involved from the requirements phase, ensuring requirements are SMART and testable.
  • Ensure the coordination of testing and validation process steps from Lab Testing, Factory System Testing and Site System testing leading to the Customer acceptance of HVDC Control & Protection System.
  • Maintain a clear overview of the NTI-NPIProject life cycles thereby derisking the product development by clearly defining the testing needs to validate the requirements.
  • Responsible for technical validation of processes and test specifications.
  • Drive the Continuous Improvement process in in collaboration with other Control & Protection Engineering teams.
  • Ensure sufficient derisking is included in Product plans, such that quality problems due to the introduction of new technologies are avoided when the new technologies are deployed on Projects.
  • The Enforcement of engineering discipline and set processes across all work tasks and adherence to company policies, quality procedures and work instructions (e.g. through training, technical reviews).
  • Reviewing the validation and verification department's skills, identifying any shortfalls or skills gaps to ensure the necessary training, guidance and mentoring of Engineers is in place.
  • Serve as approver for technical reviews and quality gates / project milestones.
  • Support the New Technology IP strategy to identify opportunities for new IP development.
  • Supports Customer communications to define quality and testing expectation from the project kickoff till final sign off.
  • Represent in various Industry working groups as a key content contributor.
  • Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May lead small projects with low risks and resource requirements. Explains information; developing skills to bring team members to consensus around topics within field. Conveys performance expectations and may handle sensitive issues.
  • Continuously improving the product in terms of delivery speed, stability and reliability
  • 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.

Qualifications and requirements:


  • Degree in Electronics / Electrical engineering or related field.
  • Significant experience in power generation, systems design, development and operation of Control System.
  • Demonstrable Technical Leadership experience.
  • Experience within Verification & Validation of Control System.
  • Experience of Leading a team of control system design, validation, installation & commissioning.
  • Proven technical leadership in a complex system engineering development environment
  • Expertise in HVDC Control, Protection and Sequencing strategy
  • Expertise in PSCAD and MATLAB-SIMULINK simulation tools
  • Expertise in HVDC Dynamic Performance Studies
  • Knowledge of Test Driven Design techniques (e.g. CI/Continuous Integration, Unit Testing, Automated Regression testing)
  • Knowledge of Requirements Management; Requirements Capture, RQM tools, Doors
  • Knowledge of Change Control and issue tracking (e.
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