Essential Responsibilities

• Support the business’ Tendering, Operations, Contractual and After Sales needs by assessing the customer requirements against reference architecture.
• Own HVDC controls system architecture definition and proto typing to validate the concept.
• Define application interfaces which can enable team to define the low & high level design specifications to develop a controls solutions.
• Play a key role in engineering design reviews and technical leadership, identifying potential project risks and technical weaknesses and proposing safe, reliable and compliant solutions.
• Train/coach junior team members to increase the  depth of architecture knowledge .
• Understand the key milestones in a project plan, their financial impact and ensuring the technical risks are understood and mitigated in accordance with the plan
• Ensure that project plans contain the necessary activities and studies required to meet the requirements of the customer and the proposed technical solution
• Lead improvements to existing solution towards standardization.
• Lead development of new strategies for control, protection and sequencing (start-up/shut down sequence) to meet customer technical specifications if required
• Support continual improvement, raising the effectiveness and efficiency of the team through the introduction of tools, methods and process improvements and coordinating with the Continuous Improvement leaders
• Support a standard product methodology mindset, seek opportunities to re-use solutions, improve quality and reliability whilst reducing the delivery timeline and associated costs
• Promote collaboration between all projects and ensure Return of Experience is incorporated

Qualifications / Essential Requirements

• Engineering degree or equivalent including power systems and power electronics subjects or proven equivalent knowledge and experience in HVDC business
• A sense of urgency and ability to identify and manage technical risks
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, experienced in creating and presenting technical reports and responding to clients’ technical questions
• Ability to understand and communicate customer requirements, lead technical discussions with customers and develop client relationships
• Understanding of the functionalities of the Control & Protection system and the interactions between the different functionalities.
• Appreciate the system hierarchy and constraints such as execution time, delays, bandwidths, redundancy, and physical signal requirements
• Able to partition and allocate systems to realise a deployable system.
• Expert knowledge of Matlab/Simulink/Stateflow and associate toolboxes to define architecture(s)
• Appreciate coding standards using Mathworks tools, as well as requirement and test generation and linking
• Experienced to use  Mathworks tools to prototype, study and refine the applications, and capturing design concepts using system engineering concepts.
• Able to work to deadlines under pressure whilst maintaining the safety, quality and engineering integrity of the solution
• Must be flexible with working hours and willing to travel in order to support projects globally

Desired characteristics:

• Process improvement or RCA experience or certification
• Ability to define requirements and ensure they adhere to best practice
• Experienced in technical leadership
• Experience working in HVDC industry