Senior Technical Engineer - Protection & Control / SCADA

Job Description Summary
This position is highly technical and will support solutions architecture for grid electrification projects including DCS/SCADA & automation, protection & control, telecommunication, cybersecurity, monitoring & diagnostics, etc. A strong focus of this position is to support the commercial sales team.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Strategic Technical Leadership and Bid Development - Spearhead the technical analysis of customer inquiries, RFQs, and tenders to determine proposal requirements, scope of supply, and optimal system solution configurations and estimations. Provide matrix leadership to a cross-functional technical team, including Solution Application Engineering, EHS, Product Engineering, Renewables Product Line, and other technical disciplines to ensure comprehensive and competitive bid submissions.
• Comprehensive Solutions and Market Understanding - Possess specialized technical knowledge across Grid Electrification solutions and markets (as per job summary), coupled with strong commercial awareness. Assist in influencing overall strategy by leveraging deep understanding of customer specified requirements.
• Innovative Problem-Solving and Decision-Making - Employ high-level judgment to make informed decisions pre-designing and estimating projects. Assess the quality of information, ask pertinent questions, and offer innovative solutions outside conventional parameters. May utilize various internal and external sources to construct and provide well-grounded recommendations.
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership and Influence - Lead cross-functional technical teams for project solutions with minimal guidance, risk, and/or complexity. Communicate difficult concepts effectively and influence stakeholders' opinions on topics. Guide team members to consider alternative viewpoints and foster a collaborative problem-solving environment.
• Technical Documentation and Risk Management - Analyze and respond to complex technical specifications and documentation to provide optimum technical solutions for protection & control system solutions. Ensure technical submissions are complete, timely, and fully compliant with all necessary details. Coordinate and follow up on post-bid clarifications, ensure the completeness of the technical package, and assist in identifying, evaluating, and ranking risks. Develop strategies to manage and mitigate risks, utilizing the R&O Register to estimate appropriate contingency allowances for inclusion in the Cost Estimate.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience
• Minimum of 5 years' experience with protection & control philosophies, schemes, and standards
• Experience with GE Vernova Protection relays including application, settings and configuration
• Minimum of 5 years' experience with local area networks, communication schemes, platforms and protocols used to provide local and remote interrogation with substation relays, meters, fault recorders and other intelligent electronic devices (IEDs)
• Minimum of 3 years' experience with substation network communication protocols and configuration (DNP3 and IEC61850)

Desired Characteristics

• Knowledge and experience with CSA, ANSI, IEC and IEEE standards
• Knowledge of SEL, Siemens and/or ABB protection relays
• Knowledge of Microgrids, PMCS, EMS, SCADA
• Knowledge of Cyber Security in the electrification realm
• Knowledge of Conventional/Digital Substations
• Knowledge and understanding of electric transmission system operation, maintenance, performance, power equipment and substation design.
• Familiarity with Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) rules
• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written (reporting, graphical) communication skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment positively influences others and develops strong internal and external relationships.
• Comfortable working in a rapidly dynamically changing environment with multiple, possibly occasionally conflicting, priorities.
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage a wide variety of issues on multiple technical tenders simultaneously.
• Capable of generating network architecture and panel layout drawings with Visio/Acad.
• Capable of generating protection single line diagrams.

Rsum de la description du poste

Ce poste est hautement technique et soutiendra l'architecture de solutions pour les projets d'lectrification du rseau, notamment le DCS/SCADA et l'automatisation, la protection et le contrle, les tlcommunications, la cyberscurit, la surveillance et le diagnostic, etc.
Ce poste est confi l'quipe des solutions de projets commerciaux qui soutient les ventes.

Rles et responsabilits

• Leadership technique stratgique et laboration des offres - Diriger l'analyse technique des demandes des clients, des appels d'offres et des appels d'offres afin de dterminer les exigences des propositions, l'tendue de l'approvisionnement, ainsi que les configurations et estimations optimales des solutions systme. Fournir un leadership matriciel une quipe technique interfonctionnelle, y compris l'ingnierie des applications de solutions, l'EHS, l'ingnierie des produits, la gamme de produits renouvelables et d'autres disciplines techniques afin de garantir des soumissions d'offres compltes et comptitives.
• Solutions compltes et comprhension du march - Possdez des connaissances techniques spcialises sur les solutions et les marchs d'lectrification des rseaux (selon le rsum du poste), associes une solide connaissance commerciale. Aider influencer la stratgie globale en tirant parti d'une comprhension approfondie des exigences spcifies par le client.
• Rsolution de problmes et prise de dcisions innovantes - Utilisez un jugement de haut niveau pour prendre des dcisions claires avant la conception et l'estimation des projets. valuez la qualit des informations, posez des questions pertinentes et proposez des solutions innovantes en dehors des paramtres conventionnels. Peut utiliser diverses sources internes et externes pour laborer et fournir des recommandations bien fondes.
• Leadership et influence des quipes interfonctionnelles - Dirigez des quipes techniques interfonctionnelles pour des solutions de projet avec un minimum de conseils, de risques et/ou de complexit. Communiquez efficacement les concepts difficiles et influencez les opinions des parties prenantes sur les sujets. Guidez les membres de l'quipe pour qu'ils envisagent d'autres points de vue et favorisez un environnement collaboratif de rsolution de problmes.
• Documentation technique et gestion des risques - Analysez et rpondez aux spcifications techniques et la documentation complexes afin de fournir des solutions techniques optimales pour les solutions de systmes de protection et de contrle. Assurez-vous que les soumissions techniques sont compltes, opportunes et entirement conformes tous les dtails ncessaires. Coordonner et suivre les clarifications aprs l'appel d'offres, garantir l'exhaustivit du paquet technique et aider identifier, valuer et classer les risques. laborez des stratgies pour grer et attnuer les risques, en utilisant le registre R&O pour estimer les provisions pour imprvus appropries inclure dans l'estimation des cots.

Qualifications requises

• Baccalaurat avec un minimum de 10 ans d'exprience pertinente
• Minimum de 5 ans d'exprience avec les philosophies, les schmas et les normes de protection et de contrle
• Exprience avec les relais GE Vernova Protection, y compris l'application, les paramtres et la configuration
• Minimum de 5 ans d'exprience avec les rseaux locaux, les schmas de communication, les plateformes et les protocoles utiliss pour effectuer des interrogatoires locaux et distance l'aide de relais de sous-stations, de compteurs, d'enregistreurs de dfauts et d'autres appareils lectroniques intelligents (EEI)
• Minimum de 3 ans d'exprience avec les protocoles de communication et la configuration des rseaux de sous-stations (DNP3 et IEC61850)

Caractristiques souhaites

• Connaissance et exprience des normes CSA, ANSI, IEC et IEEE
• Connaissance des relais de protection SEL, Siemens et/ou ABB
• Connaissance des microrseaux, des PMCS, des EMS et des SCADA
• Connaissance de la cyberscurit dans le domaine de l'lectrification
• Connaissance des sous-stations conventionnelles/numriques
• Connaissance et comprhension du fonctionnement, de la maintenance, des performances, de l'quipement lectrique et de la conception des sous-stations des rseaux de transport d'lectricit.
• Connaissance des rgles de protection des infrastructures critiques (CIP)
• Solides comptences en communication interpersonnelle, verbale et crite (rapports, graphiques).
• La capacit de travailler dans un environnement d'quipe influence positivement les autres et dveloppe de solides relations internes et externes.
• l'aise de travailler dans un environnement en volution rapide et dynamique avec de multiples priorits, parfois contradictoires.
• Excellentes comptences organisationnelles avec la capacit de grer simultanment une grande varit de problmes dans le cadre de multiples appels d'offres techniques.
• Capable de gnrer des dessins d'architecture rseau et de disposition de panneaux avec Visio/Acad.
• Capable de gnrer des diagrammes unifilaires de protection.

Additional Information

GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

#LI-Remote - This is a remote position

Application Deadline: June 30, 2026

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $113,200.00 and $188,800.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, education, and skill set.

Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.

This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on February 26, 2026.

Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.

GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, "GE Vernova") sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.