Controls Engineer

Job Description Summary

GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life.

Are you excited at the opportunity to electrify and decarbonize the world? Looking to make a global impact and solve problems? Through relentless innovation and continuous collaboration with our customers, GE Gas Power, part of GE Vernova, is providing more advanced, cleaner, and efficient power that people depend on today and building the energy technologies of the future.

What impact you'll make:
In support of the GE Vernova's mission, you will design and implement control solutions that have meaningful impact on people's lives and enable the transformation of the energy sector. You will be empowered, work in a scaled agile environment, and have the opportunity to drive meaningful change and continuous improvement using Lean principles. You will have a complete life cycle experience from initial concept development through detail design, implementation, and upgrades, working with over 1000 global engineers with a single purpose: deliver the cleanest, most efficient power to our customers.

Job Description

What You'll Do:

• Identify, develop, evaluate, introduce, and manage engineering solutions for product control and control system technology needs. Apply control theory and mathematical modeling to design and control systems with desired behaviors. Includes operability, setting of boundaries, cycle optimization, control logic, control related software, sensors, hardware and software algorithms, and feedback to control the performance of devices, subsystems and systems.
• Execute Control System retrofits and migrations, following standard work.
• Apply control technologies to Aero Gas turbine, Steam Turbine, Heat Recovery Steam Generator, Balance of Plant or Grid Response New Product Introduction or Development of World-Class Standards and Capabilities
• Test and develop requirements for Aero GT, ST, HRSG, BOP and Grid Response application code in MarkVIe Control system.
• Implement new control technologies into packaged product offerings.
• Participate in Customer Witnesses Tests / Kick-Off Meetings and other interaction with customers.
• Contribute to projects with responsibility for safety, quality and delivery metrics.
• Support Controls Software Engineering process, Production and Field Engineering
• Contribute to Software development for Changes, Modifications & Upgrades and perform validation test.
• Provide engineering technical support to cross functional teams to improve or resolve Controls design.
• Use and improve software automation tools.
• Ensure proper documentation of technical data is generated for the assigned projects and/or tasks consistent with engineering policies and procedures
• Participate on the implementation of innovative analysis design, development concepts of processes and systems.
• Work in Agile environment, delivering in Sprints and participating in Daily Scrum Meetings.
• Travel to customer's Power Plants to Support site installations and gather data required to execute the Control System retrofit/migration
• Collaborate with others to solve issues. Develop strong customer relationships and serve as the interface between customer and GE Vernova. Exchange technical information, be boldly inquisitive and always yearning to grow.

• Passion for continuous learning and applying best practices to achieve practical solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience in data-driven modelling, simulation, or algorithm development as part of studies or projects.
• Ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary and innovation-driven environments.
• Exposure to programming languages such as C/C++, Python, R, or similar, for algorithm development, data analysis, and simulation.
• Exposure to power plant control systems, grid modelling, and turbine control operational challenges.
• Strong communication and presentation skills for cross-functional and academic collaboration.