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Senior System Studies Engineer

GE Vernova
Oakbrook Terrace, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Sept 2025
💰 $203,900/yr($122,300/yr$203,900/yr)

About the role

Job Description Summary

Systems Engineering is a cross-functional discipline that combines technical and business perspectives through a structured approach, mindset, and process. It focuses on delivering high-quality solutions that meet user needs by balancing both customer requirements and technical feasibility.

This discipline involves a robust process that spans from concept through production to operation. Key activities include:
- Identifying and quantifying system requirements
- Developing and evaluating alternative design concepts
- Performing design trade-offs and selecting optimal solutions
- Implementing, verifying, and integrating the chosen design

The role may include planning and executing departmental operations or leading activities within a specific technical domain. While the work is guided by established policies and expected outcomes, there is flexibility to adapt processes and practices—so long as the final results meet quality, timeline, and performance standards.

Job Description

About Us:

Come bring your energy to change the world.

Grid Solutions, part of the GE Vernova portfolio of energy businesses, serves customers globally with over 12,000 employees. Grid Solutions provides equipment, systems, and services to bring power reliably and efficiently from the point of generation to end power consumers. We electrify the world with advanced grid technologies and accelerate the energy transition.

GE Vernova, a dynamic accelerator comprised of our Power, Renewable Energy, Digital and Energy Financial Services businesses, is focused on leading a new era of energy - electrifying the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it.

If you are ready to make a difference and usher in a new era of energy, come join us.

Why we come to work:

At GE Grid Solutions, we are always up for the challenge - and we’re always driven to find the best solution. Our projects are unique and interesting, and you’ll need to bring a solution-focused, positive approach to each one to do your best. Surrounded by committed, loyal colleagues, if you can dare to bring your ingenuity and desire to make an impact, you’ll be exposed to game-changing, diverse projects that truly allow you to play your part in the green energy transition.

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Independently perform in depth system studies listed below and/or specify scope, review, comment, direct/oversee 3rd party provider(s) for the studies below:
    • Load Flow / Power Flow, Reactive Capability and Reactive Compensation, Power Factor Study
    • Dynamic Performance Studies (DPS) and other design studies using both offline and online simulation tools.
    • Power System Dynamic Simulation
    • Short circuit analysis
    • Combined Short Circuit Ratio (CSCR) Evaluation
    • Transient Switching and Insulation Coordination Study
    • Transient Recovery Voltage (TRV) Analysis
    • Delayed Current Zero Analysis
    • Harmonic Distortion Study
    • Harmonic Stability Study
  • Overall System Performance Assessment Study
  • Expertise in system tools like PSCAD, PSS/E, PSLF, PSCAD, EMTP, ASPEN, ETAP, EMTP, TARA, DigSilent PowerFactory, to perform system studies as detailed above or under desired characteristics section.
  • Excellent Technical Communication skills to provide guidance, analysis and reports in clear succinct manner to customers, project team and stakeholders.
  • Provide guidance and coordinate the engineering tasks to meet the project/tender requirement.
  • Technical responsibility in areas of expertise
  • Be innovative, develop and industrialize solutions tools and processes associated with system studies
  • Be actively involved in new developments in HVDC technologies, implementing control and protection solutions and creating / delivering new analysis techniques and system study tools to provide optimized system study solutions.
  • Process Improvement: Review and record design processes and develop new or improved processes.
  • Enforce engineering discipline and set processes across all work tasks and adherence to company policies, quality procedures and work instructions (e.g., through trainings, technical reviews).
  • Represent the business in external events by publishing technical papers.
  • Apply yourself towards improving your technical knowledge base and keep abreast of relevant methodologies and technological advancement within the Company.
  • Support and mentor other engineers to increase the team’s technical knowledge and competence.
  • Report or resolve any non-conformances in a timely manner.
  • Actively participate in defining corrective actions w

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