Director of Controls - Integrated Systems

Job Description Summary

GE Vernova is committed to helping the world achieve its decarbonization goals. Consulting Services, a part of GE Vernova, offers our global clients (external & internal GE Vernova) a wide range of solutions across the entire spectrum of power generation, delivery, and utilization.
As a Control Systems Integration Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in integrating and optimizing control systems across GE Vernova's diverse portfolio of power solutions, with a particular focus on data center and large hybrid applications. You will lead system-level control development, drive cross-business engineering coordination, and ensure seamless interoperability between various control technologies, including gas turbine controls, battery energy storage systems, excitation systems (EX2100), and Energy Management Systems (EMS) & control systems for Inverter-Based Technologies.
This role requires deep expertise in control systems and power systems, combined with strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills. You will work closely with controls engineering teams across multiple business units, ensuring that control architectures, functional requirements, and operational constraints are well-defined, aligned, and communicated effectively.

Job Description

Control System Integration & Development

• Lead the integration of a x-GEV control systems solutions for complex power projects (data center applications & large hybrids). Work closely with key stakeholders across controls engineering and product management teams of x- GE Vernova business units to deliver those solutions.
• Define control system architecture and functional requirements for data center & large hybrid power solutions, including fully islanded and grid-connected configurations.
• Ensure harmonization of control strategies across equipment-level, plant-level, and system-wide applications.

• Establish a structured framework for defining functional requirements, control philosophy, operability constraints, and protection strategies to facilitate cross business and cross technology controls solutions development.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration, ensuring that controls engineering teams align on requirements, limitations, and system operability needs.
• Ensure clear and consistent communication across controls engineering teams of GE Vernova business units, keeping all stakeholders informed of data center and hybrid systems technical requirements and how those requirements may impact components of the integrated power solution.

• Identify gaps in system-level controls solutions and lead cross-business NPI initiatives to develop controls solutions that address these gaps.
• Support the lifecycle of new control products, from concept and definition through design, validation, and deployment.
• Ensure coordination of NPI efforts within specific GE Vernova businesses, proactively aligning development initiatives with other business units.
• Coordinate systems simulation testing and validation efforts to ensure control systems (and any new controls products it may include) meet performance, reliability, and safety requirements of data center and large hybrid applications.

• Actively participate in strategic planning and development of GE Vernova controls products & service offerings and new product/technology introductions (NPI/NTI) concurrent with business needs, with particular focus and influence on systems operability, stability and integration in collaboration with CS teams.