Primary Lead Engineer

Job Description Summary
As a Primary Lead Engineer, your main responsibility is to design and layout high-voltage (HV) substations, ensuring their reliability, efficiency, and compliance with industry standards and regulations.

Collaboration with other engineers and support for project documentation and continuous improvement initiatives are also key aspects of this role.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• As a High Voltage Substation Lead Primary Design Engineer responsible for whole Substation Design including General Layout, Sections, HV cable routing, Civil Work Guide drawings, earthing calculation...etc., with maximize efficiency and accessibility for maintenance and operation
• Selection for HV substation components, not only include transformers, switchgear, circuit breakers, and associated equipment, but also conductors, clamp, insulators and other necessary material for the overall integration, based on project requirements and specifications
• Compliance with updated regulation/standards & collaboration closely with other engineering disciplines such as Protection, Control, Automation Engineers, Civil/Structural Engineers, and MEP Engineers, to achieve seamless integration of substation components

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from accredited university or college from Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• Minimum 8 years of engineering experience in the related activity/discipline in project & EPC type environment in T&D, or STATCOM or Power Gen or Oil & Gas industry
• Experience with AutoCAD software
• Up to 20% travel within MEA & Europe along with other countries/regions for short or medium period based on requirement
• Strong verbal and written proficiency in English and Turkish, complemented by advanced communication and relationship-building skills
• Ability to live in Ankara

Desired Characteristics

• Experience with Revit, BIM360 and ACC is a plus
• Knowledge of Project organization and engineering processes related to his/her scope of activity
• Provide technical support to customers and project teams
• Initiate & support the procurement of equipment.
• Compliance with Quality processes and procedures and GE policies and procedures
• Experience in technical problem solving
• Discipline Design reviews & Gate reviews plan formalized and followed, to ensure the integration into the overall substation design.
• ROR integrates design part and Mitigation plan formalized and actions status identified
• Discipline provisional document list prepared and aligned with project time Schedule with achievable task duration
• Full set KPI's followed on monthly base
• Design management tools strictly followed, and submission of coherent data
• Design change process in place
• Manage engineering subcontractors on specific work packages

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

Client-provided location(s): Ankara, Turkey

Job ID: GE_Vernova-R5057309

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-11-05T18:34:17