Principal Engineer - Verification & Validation

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Job Description Summary

As a Verification & Validation (V&V) Principal Engineer you will be working across the Engineering Delivery function, NPI and Product Care function reporting directly to the Head of Control and Protection Verification & Validation.

This role includes developing department talent, defining and executing V&V department strategy, 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, Product Care and Project Delivery.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Providing strategic and tactical direction for Verification and Validation of HVDC Control and Protection System in collaboration with Grid and HVDC technology groups.
• Accountable for establishing 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.
• Leading 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.
• Accountable for developing, maintaining and Preparing Test Management Plans & Solutions.
• Accountable for the coordination of HVDC 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 HVDC NTI-NPI-Project life cycles thereby de-risking the product development by clearly defining the testing needs to validate the requirements.
• Accountable for technical validation of processes and test specifications.
• Accountable for defining and executing Continuous Improvement for V&V department in collaboration with other HVDC Control & Protection Engineering teams.
• Ensure sufficient de-risking 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.
• Lead V&V team to identify opportunities for new IP development.
• Lead and mentor V&V team in customer communications to define quality and testing expectation from the project kick-off till final sign off.
• Develop and mentor V&V team members so that they can be represent the business in various Industry working groups as a key content contributor.
• Will be accountable in defining strategies and roadmap for development of New Engineers in the department.

• Degree in Electronics / Electrical engineering or related field.
• Significant and demonstrated years of experience in power generation, systems design, development and operation of Control System
• Exceptional interpersonal and technical leadership skills.
• Experienced within Verification & Validation of HVDC Control System.
• Competent in HVDC Control, Protection, Sequencing strategy and HVDC Dynamic Performance Studies.
• Competent in PSCAD / MATLAB-SIMULINK and RTDS applications.
• Proactively serves on cross functional leadership teams; Makes decisions independently.
• Knowledge of Control and Protection cubicle Circuit Diagram, field cabling protection relays, HV/MV/LV switchgear, IED's and Distributed control system.
• Knowledge of Test-Driven Design techniques (e.g. CI / Continuous Integration, Unit Testing, Automated Regression testing).
• Competent in Requirements Management and Test Traceability Matrix.
• Knowledge of Change Control and issue tracking (e.g. CCB, Jira).
• Advanced oral and written communication skills with fluency in English language.
• Ability to understand and communicate customer requirements, ownership of technical discussions with customers and capable of developing client relationships.

• A significant ability to analyse and resolve problems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects.
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
• Established project management skills.
• Experience on tools like MATCAD, EMTP-RV, Digsilent etc will be added advantage.