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The company is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. The Control Systems Lead Project Engineer will act as the single point of contact for engineering on the project. This role involves developing a solid knowledge and experience with electrical and mechanical control systems for turbines, generators, compressors, and plant controls. You will coordinate technology resources to support the application of the correct customer solution and work alongside experienced engineers to develop and implement custom solutions that supply the world with energy. The opportunity will include designing the solution, overseeing manufacturing, and supporting commissioning at domestic and international customer sites. This role provides a great opportunity to expand your professional career and gain invaluable hands-on experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide engineering support for retrofit control systems under the overall management responsibility of the project manager. Be accountable for project deliverables, customer CTQ compliance, on-time schedule execution, and team performance.
- Apply electrical and mechanical engineering principles to analyze, propose, design, test, and troubleshoot control systems.
- Lead Project team to achieve business Key Performance Indicators and on-time execution of the project deliverables, ensuring conformance to applicable design practices and procedures, and assuring product quality.
- Own the Project Engineering hours budgets and assign them to the project team(s).
- Own the Project Milestone schedules and ensure all deliverables are provided on schedule.
- Ensure regulatory compliance of deliverables.
- Review contract documentation and customer specifications for technical impact.
- Co-Responsible for technical review and response to customer specifications. Provide support to the commercial/sales organization to interpret requirements and define responses in proposals and Tables of Compliance.
- Work alongside and receive mentoring from Senior Project Engineers.
- Help design systems for interface to existing turbine control equipment, and evaluate all system components, requirements, and interactions.
- Responsible for coordinating and co-leading technical design reviews of projects and ensuring all required documentation is archived.
- Apply knowledge of industry practices and international standards to produce high-quality and cost-effective designs.
- Support customer meetings, factory acceptance testing, and installation and commissioning of control systems. Frequently interact with customers and suppliers.
- Demonstrated expertise in technical problem resolution, especially regarding power plants operation.
- Domestic and international travel may be required.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related discipline.
- Minimum 8 years of experience, including a detailed understanding of power application with turbine-generator control systems for gas turbines, steam turbines, and respective excitation controls; or a minimum of 6 years if the candidate holds a Master's Degree in a STEM field.
- Knowledge and experience with electrical and mechanical control systems.
- Ability to support multiple projects simultaneously in a matrix management environment.
Desired Characteristics
- Familiarity with non-company turbines or non-company control systems.
- Experience on ALSTOM Steam Turbines and Compressor Controls.
- Experience with Mark V, Mark VI, Mark VIe, and EX2100e Systems.
- Familiarity with company HMIs, Networking, and Cyber Solutions.
- Experience in interfacing with all levels of company internal and external customers.
- Green Belt certified, or other lean training.
- Familiarity with the ControlST software suite.
- Familiarity with power plant methods of communication and networking with DCS systems such as MODBUS, OPC, and IEC Protocols, etc.
Additional Information
- Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
