Verification & Validation Engineer

• Engineering degree or equivalent including power systems and power electronics subjects
• Strong sense of urgency and ability to identify and manage technical risks
• Strong 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
• Able to work to deadlines under pressure whilst maintaining the safety, quality and engineering integrity of the solution.

Execute, with guidance from lead engineers, the required control design, protection design & verification work packages on time and within defined budgets.

• →Follow the departments standard design practices, engineering reviews and guidelines
• →Prepare control, protection and sequencing strategy specifications, design, and testing with guidance from lead engineers.
• →PSSE/PSCAD and PSSE/RSCAD Power system network conversion, modelling and verification.
• →Plant modelling of HVDC System in various simulation tools (MATLAB, RSCAD, PSCAD etc) and its verification.
• →Algorithm and state machine development in MATLB Simulink.
• →Conversion of MATLB Simulink algorithms to other suitable time domain library models.
• →Support improvements to existing algorithm/strategies for power fault recovery or instability issues during DPS studies.
• →Support development of new strategies for control, protection, and sequencing (start-up/shut down sequence) to meet customer technical specifications if required.
• →Support R&D teams to develop existing and new products and tools.
• →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.
• →Cross functional training across five teams (Control Automation Systems, Control System Application, Protection System Application, Verification & Validation) will be provided.