Verification and Validation Engineering Leader

Job Description Summary

This role primarily involves managing a team responsible for overall installation of control system in lab for HVDC projects. Furthermore, this team is also responsible for making sure that the control systems are thoroughly integrated and verified, to maximum possible extent, within our controls lab and then re-verified together with the remainder of the HVDC scheme during the static and dynamic commissioning process at site.
In this role the candidate will be reporting to Verification and Validation (V&V) Engineering Leader and will have significant impacts on projects and programs in the functional area. Furthermore, the candidate will have significant input into V&V priorities. Guided by professional practices and policies that are shaped by the role. The role has moderate autonomy, requiring high levels of operational judgment.
We have delivery centres in Germany, UK & India and the candidate needs to ensure collaboration across all our delivery centres. Communication and status reporting will be essential to build a strong one team culture.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead the Verification & Validation activities across a large engineering team and manage the team's performance against goals, standards and annual objectives.
• Workload planning for a team as well as tracking overall work progress.
• Ensures that process, policies, and procedures are defined and adhered to.
• Follow the departmental standard installation/testing, quality & HSE (Health, Safety & environment) practices and guidelines.
• Be Involved from the requirements phase, ensuring requirements are SMART and testable.
• Manage the testing for the full hardware and software development lifecycle test management.
• Establish a 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.
• Be familiar with the regulatory requirements specific to the lab and ensures all users are incompliance with those standards.
• Oversees laboratory safety and ensures that the laboratory remains in compliance with all local, state and federal regulations. In cases where non-compliance is found, documents the instances as well as how they were abated
• Generate plans, procedures and specifications for the Development of Integration System Tests, Full System Tests, and Factory Acceptance Tests and Commissioning Tests at site plans and procedures.
• Develop, maintain and Prepare Test Management Plans & Solutions.
• Accurate reporting and record keeping on Progress and Issues.
• Maintain a solid assessment of Verification and Validation workload across the delivery centres and contribute to the overall monitoring and review of workload for the business.
• To set an example and actively observes performance against measurable criteria.
• To Provide immediate feedback and seek to correct behaviours of the team that do not foster a good culture or contribute towards unsafe behaviour or bad practices that jeopardize our achievements.
• Provide leadership and technical direction to a to meet project and departmental specific objectives•

• Engineering degree or equivalent including power systems and power electronics subjects or proven equivalent knowledge and experience in HVDC business.
• More than 15 years' experience in HVDC industry including HVDC station equipment and design.
• Experienced in managing and leading team with strong technical background. Experienced in leading programs / projects.
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs on budget and on time.
• Experienced in leading and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Proactively serves on cross functional leadership teams; Makes decisions independently; Pulls in experts when needed.
• Strong communications skills, able to forge strong relationships with peer-level designers, platform managers, developers, engineering, planning and operations managers to explain and drive technology change through the lifecycle.

• Ability to work with stakeholders to ensure the proposed solution is affordable, deliverable and delivers the required business outcomes.
• Innovating to exceed Time, Cost, Quality measures / sharing best practice.
• Expertise in HVDC GE Vernova Control and Protection Hardware (Series V and eLumina)
• Knowledge of Control and Protection Cubicle Circuit Diagram, field cabling protection relays, HV/MV/LV switchgear, IED's and Distributed control system.
• Experience of leading a team on installation of Control and Protection systems on Site/Lab.
• Strong organization, coordination, planning and teaming skills along with excellent oral and written communication.
• Be familiar with the regulatory requirements specific to the lab and demonstrate in previous experience that you have ensured all users are incompliance with those standards
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.